Regarding the episodes airing on November 21, Drew teased that her favorite Emily flashbacks come up in these specific shows. “You see a very, very different side of Emily that is extremely informative,” she hinted.

Drew loves playing Emily, going so far as to say, “It’s just an actor’s dream to get to play someone that has so many different layers.” She loves that her character is “so multi-faceted” and someone who “shifts gears with absolute ease.”

She gives a lot of credit to Ken Cuperus, the writer of the book series by the same name. Cuperus is “brilliant at melding these two worlds” of holiday and mystery, Drew shared.

The Hallmark star continued, “Both of these worlds are really beloved. Both the mystery genre and the Christmas genre are absolutely beloved.”

Drew thinks that “Mistletoe Murders” works so well because the series follows a path that works similarly in both Hallmark Christmas movies and mystery movies. “Something’s broken, something’s messy, you take a whole journey and at the end you know it’s all going to be okay.”

“You know the guy’s going to get the girl, you know that bad guys are going to go down and good guys are going to win. And that’s why people tune in to Hallmark,” she added.

She continued, “There’s, like, an exhale and, like, a salve for the soul that comes from both of these genres. And then [Cuperus] just has done an incredible job of intertwining them.”

When asked to describe season 2 of “Mistletoe Murders” in one word, Drew chose “tenderhearted.” She loves the strength in vulnerability that plays out. She admitted that tenderhearted isn’t “a sexy idea,” but she felt it would make sense after viewers watched the full season.