The BBC series returns for its second episode

The crime drama beloved by fans for providing the perfect cosy viewing experience returned to BBC One and iPlayer last week for the premiere of its fourth season.

This came after a character was confirmed to be exiting the show when the team face a series of budget cuts.

However, in a clip ahead of tomorrow night’s latest installment, Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and Esther Williams (Zara Ahmadi) are left bamboozled by a burglary cover-up.

However, after leaving, Clive’s office is then ransacked before their house is broken into once again, leaving the couple at their wits’ end.

Elsewhere in the episode, Humphrey and his fiancé Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) reconsider their decision to renew their fostering journey.

Meanwhile, Big Boys star Dylan Llewellyn, who plays Kelby, grapples with Margo’s (Felicity Montagu) insistence that he keeps up positive affirmations whilst dealing with a young teen held captive in a garden shed.

In last week’s episode, Humphrey reckoned with the recent departure of the station’s Chief Superintendent.

This, in turn, puts Humphrey in a precarious situation, with budget cuts forcing the station to lay off one of three colleagues.

Discussing Humphrey’s pending decision to make cuts, fans on X described it as ‘cruel’, as Debbie wrote: ‘How can we lose any of them?!

Olivia similarly declared: ‘We need to protest!!

We can’t lose any of them!!!!’
Lucy, meanwhile, said: ‘Can we not manifest that into the world, that’s our family for life.’
Describing how good it is to see the series back on our screens, Gail also added: ‘What a great first episode.’
Last year, Kris hit back against harsh reviews from critics, as he questioned why the world takes itself ‘so seriously’.

Speaking to Radio Times, he said: ‘I have a theory – not a theory, actually, it’s a fact – that to make a show like Death in Paradise or Beyond Paradise, that has a broad demographic, that you can sit down and watch with your kids, that bonds all family members in the room, is incredibly hard to do,’ he said.

‘And to have people scorn it… I’m fine with it now but it bothered me a bit in the past.

These shows are hard to make and they bring people together – that’s got to be lauded a little bit, right?’
Beyond Paradise is available to watch on BBC One and iPlayer at 8pm on Friday.

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