Now Streaming: Wake Up Dead Man – A Knives Out Mystery

A haunted parish, an impossible murder, and Benoit Blanc wading into theology and small-town secrets.

Here’s what went down 👇

Read this if you’re tracking modern whodunits, Benoit Blanc’s evolving mythos, or church-set mysteries with political and spiritual undercurrents.

📍 What Just Dropped

Young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to help charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, only to find unease simmering in the pews.

A sudden, seemingly impossible murder jolts the town, with no obvious suspect or clear way the crime could have happened.

Local police chief Geraldine Scott brings in renowned detective Benoit Blanc when the case defies logic and conventional investigative playbooks.

🕵️ The Mystery’s Texture

The setting mixes rural religiosity with tense dynamics inside the congregation.

Blanc must manage fragile egos, hidden sins, and power tied to Wicks’s charisma.

The murder’s impossibility becomes the core puzzle.

It’s not just who did it, but how within a closed, faith-soaked community.

🙏 Faith, Power, and Small-Town Politics

The story plays inside overlapping hierarchies—church authority, local law enforcement, and community rumor.

Jud’s spiritual naivete collides with Wicks’ firebrand persona, exposing fractures in the parish’s moral story about itself.

As Blanc digs deeper, the case becomes less about one dead body and more about the illusions the town needs to keep living with.

🧾 The Bottom Line

Wake Up Dead Man keeps the Knives Out formula, eccentric detective, tight setting, social commentary, but trades mansions for monasteries and tech bros for clergy.

If you like your mysteries layered with theology, politics, and human frailty, this one drops you straight into the confessional.