Everything to Remember Ahead of 'Miss Scarlet' Season 5: Where Does the Show Go From Here?

Mystery series Miss Scarlet is set to return for its fifth season in January, but the show will look a great deal different than it has in the past when it does. It's got a new title, dropping the "and the Duke" that has defined the series for the bulk of its run, a new leading man in Tom Durant Pritchard (This Is Going to Hurt), and what feels like a whole new outlook on what the show is supposed to be and do. Season 5 acts as a soft reboot of the entire series, and it's difficult to know how much of what has come before viewers will need to remember in the face of this new blank slate. Given how last season ended, it seems equally impossible Miss Scarlet won't be forced to reckon with its past before anything else happens.

We'll have to wait and see precisely what that looks like; however, it's hard to overstate what a shift this season will be for the show. Miss Scarlet (previously called Miss Scarlet & The Duke) follows the story of Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips), Victorian London's first female private investigator and a woman determined to make her way professionally in a man's world. Her relationship with Scotland Yard detective William "The Duke" Wellington (Stuart Martin), which dates back to their youth, gets her resources she wouldn't otherwise be able to access, and the pair frequently team up to solve various crimes.

They also do a lot of flirting, from longing looks and laden silences to meaningful hand touches and regular dinner dates. It's the sort of slow burn will they / won't they romance that has powered television series for decades, and the folks behind the scenes seemed to revel in dragging out any meaningful conversation and/or self-reflection between the pair about what they meant to one another.