Best A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Episodes, Ranked
All 12 episodes of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder scored and sorted — from the 8.4/10 high of S1E6 to the 7.8/10 of S2E1.
Our rating: 8.14/10 average across 12 episode reviews (best 8.4, lowest 7.8).
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder runs hot and steady — nothing below a 7.8, nothing above an 8.4, which tells you this is a show that knows exactly what it is and rarely fumbles the assignment. Both seasons are built the same way: a slow accumulation of evidence that pays off late, so the back halves do the heavy lifting.
Season 1 is the cleaner build. It opens with a confident trio of 8.1 episodes, tightens through S1E4 “Pip Finds the Lie Under Sal’s Alibi,” and lands its high point at S1E6 “Pip Finds Andie Bell” (8.4), the one outright peak of the series — the answer arrives and it actually reframes everything before it, which is the whole promise of the genre kept.
Season 2 stumbles out of the gate. S2E1 “Jamie Disappears at the Memorial” (7.8) is the low, a setup-heavy hour that spends more time planting threads than pulling them. From there it recovers sharply, climbing to the back-to-back 8.3 of S2E5 “Stanley Forbes Is Child Brunswick” — the reveal that gives the season its spine — and S2E6 “Pip Finds Jamie and Loses Stanley,” where the win comes laced with a real cost.
The seasons finish nearly even, S1 a hair ahead on consistency. Watch for the endings; that’s where this show does its best work.
| Rank | Ep | Episode | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S1E6 | Pip Finds Andie Bell | 8.4 |
| T-2 | S2E5 | Stanley Forbes Is Child Brunswick | 8.3 |
| T-2 | S2E6 | Pip Finds Jamie and Loses Stanley | 8.3 |
| T-4 | S1E4 | Pip Finds the Lie Under Sal's Alibi | 8.2 |
| T-4 | S1E5 | Naomi's Proof Leads Pip to Elliot's Attic | 8.2 |
| T-4 | S2E4 | Pip Follows Jamie's Last Steps to Wyvil Road | 8.2 |
| T-7 | S1E1 | Pip Reopens the Andie Bell Case | 8.1 |
| T-7 | S1E2 | Pip Finds Andie's Secret Older Guy | 8.1 |
| T-7 | S1E3 | Pip Follows Andie's Drug Trail | 8.1 |
| T-10 | S2E2 | Pip Reconstructs Jamie's Last Night | 8.0 |
| T-10 | S2E3 | Pip Catches the Catfish Layla Mead | 8.0 |
| 12 | S2E1 | Jamie Disappears at the Memorial | 7.8 |
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