'Frankie Drake Mysteries' to Conclude with Season 4
It's official: Canadian series Frankie Drake Mysteries will not return for a fifth season. The female-led period mystery is currently airing its fourth - and now final - season in Canada and the U.K., but the CBC has opted not to pick up the series beyond that point.
The series follows the story of the titular Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) and her partner Trudy Clarke (Chantel Riley), who are two halves of the first female detective agency in 1920s Toronto. The show has a vaguely Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries vibe, but it's set in Canada and the fashions aren't quite as on point.
The two female leads are often aided by Toronto police’s morality officer, Mary Shaw (Rebecca Liddiard), and morgue attendant Flo Chakowitz (Sharron Matthews). Though the series is called Frankie Drake, the show is really focused on the relationships among this group of four different women, who take on the cases that the police don’t want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention.
The CBC announced the cancelation news with a cast video on their Instagram.
