The 'Harry Wild' Season 3 Trailer Reminds Us, As a Detective, She's a Lot Nicer

Acorn TV is all about older women detectives and has been ever since Miss Phryne Fisher sauntered off the boat in the first episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. But while the streaming service has had all kinds of women detectives, from Sarah Lancashire's Sergeant Catherine Cawood on Happy Valley to Kerry Godliman's Pearl Nolan in Whitstable Pearl, no detective has been quite as popular as Jane Seymour's Harry Wild. The recently retired English professor turned sleuth has become one of Acorn TV's most popular offerings, and Season 3 is heading back to screens just in time for summer.

Harry Wild first debuted in the spring of 2022, introducing Seymour and her odd-couple sidekick, Fergus, played by Rohan Nedd, himself an alumnus of Acorn TV's Whitstable Pearl series. The two started out as a weird team of crime solvers, but over the two seasons thus far, they've become a bit of a found family even as Harry's own blood relations struggle with her fascination with solving murders. (Her son, a professional cop, can't decide if he wishes mom would just stop, or if he couldn't be prouder. Sometimes it seems like both.) But fans of the series have made up their minds on the series. They are absolutely here for more of Harry and Fergus.

Honestly, after watching the trailer, I think Harry's residents and neighbors of Harry should probably be into it as well. After all, they are much nicer to talk to than the actual police when there's a body lying around.

Here's the synopsis for Harry Wild's third season:

In season three, Harry and Fergus are hired to prove the lead singer of Ireland’s hottest boy band didn’t kill himself, find out who decapitated a woman in a busy restaurant, discover who murdered a despotic director on the set of Ireland’s leading daytime soap opera, work out how a mystery writer managed to shoot himself in a locked panic room without a gun, and more. Meanwhile, with the agency still as busy as ever, Harry and Fergus have to find a way to balance work and life as Fergus plans to contest Paula’s custody claim to his sister. 

Seymour co-stars alongside Rohan Nedd (Whitstable Pearl) as her sidekick Fergus. The rest of the show's regulars include Kevin Ryan (Guilt) as Harry’s son and senior police detective; Amy Huberman (Finding Joy) as Harry’s daughter-in-law; Samantha Mumba (The Time Machine) as Paula; Paul Tylak (Kin) as Glenn Talbot; and Rose O’Neill as Lola.

Series creator David Logan continues to be head writer on Harry Wild along with Jo Spain. Directors Robert Quinn and Emer Conroy split helming duties across the six episodes. Seymour, Daniel March, Klaus Zimmermann, James Gibb, Morgan O’Sullivan, James Flynn, Catherine Mackin, and Bea Tammer executive produce.

Harry Wild Season 3 will debut on Acorn TV on Monday, May 13, 2024, with a co-premiere on AMC Networks’ linear platform, BBC America, on the same day. The series will air and stream weekly on Mondays through the end of June.