Neville Parker (Ralf Little), the Commissioner (Don Warrington), Marlon (Tahj Miles), Naomi (Shantol Jackson), and Catherine (Élizabeth Bourgine) spent time with Humphrey (Kris Marshall) and Martha (Sally Bretton) back in the bar on Saint Marie in the Beyond Paradise finale last night.
This was a significant event since Humphrey and Martha were characters developed in a previous season of Death in Paradise, with the spin-off following their new lives in Shipton Abbot as Humphrey joins the local police force and Martha opens her new restaurant.
Fans began to worry about the couple’s future after Martha told Humphrey that they shouldn’t be together since he was anxious to be a father and she couldn’t put herself through another round of IVF.
Humphrey didn’t know what to do, so he hopped on a plane and flew back to the location he had called home for so long.
Back outside the beach bungalow, Humphrey said hello to Harry the lizard, and it was there that the Commissioner came by to offer some advise.
The surprises continued coming for all of us as it became clear that Martha knew precisely where Humphrey was heading (he booked the hotel using her credit card) and had followed him back to the location where they fell in love.
‘There isn’t a me, without a you’, Humphrey told Martha and yes, we’re crying again.
When Martha, Humphrey, and the Commissioner were reunited, they went back to Catherine’s pub, where the current squad – Neville, Marlon, and Naomi – were having a drink after work.
So, while they laughed and spoke, we said our goodbyes at the end of the first season of Beyond Paradise.
But what does this mean for the future?
Creator Tony Jordan recently stated: ‘This isn’t an experiment! We have tried to create a show that will deliver to the audience and get the same feeling as Death in Paradise. They are completely different worlds, but they are feel good television and I don’t think there is enough of that. I think there is so much crime drama of missing babies, dead teenagers, people hanging from trees and all sorts!
‘I like shows like Death in Paradise where the family all sit together and I love it. Death in Paradise, 9pm on a Friday, you think “oh quick sit down!”. I hope that we’ll get the same thing with Beyond Paradise.
‘We are working on ideas for future series, we’d absolutely love for it to go again.’
‘We have the freedom to tell stories in a different way with this show’, Tim Key, Executive Producer added.
‘We have created a format where it is almost slightly format-less. We can start the show without a pre-title sequence, episode 1 doesn’t have a title sequence, episode 2 does, we can tell our stories in very different ways, whereas Death in Paradise is slightly more formatted in that sense.
‘We’re able to shake things up and keep it fresh and surprising, which is what we have to do with Death in Paradise, but the show is so known for its format that you can’t bend and break that, but Beyond Paradise doesn’t really have any rules.’
Beyond Paradise is available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.