The BEST episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries season 8

Every episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries season 8!

The Brokenwood Mysteries comprises four two-hour murder mystery stories set in a seemingly quiet country town where the town's newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.

Last Updated: 12/8/2024Network: Acorn TVStatus: Continuing
Good as Gold
star
7.80
106 votes

#1 - Good as Gold

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2022

A 160-year-old family feud over gold becomes the main motive for murder when a modern-day cowgirl is gunned down in cold blood.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Death n Bass
star
7.69
102 votes

#2 - Death n Bass

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2022

The Brokenwood crime fighters are called in to investigate a murder at a music festival, where it would appear the victim was quite literally killed by sound.

Directors: Mike Smith
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Three Coins in a Fountain
star
7.66
99 votes

#3 - Three Coins in a Fountain

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2022

When the world champion of the curious sport of Spoofing is found dead in a fountain, the Brokenwood detectives must determine who was willing to commit murder in order to win at all costs.

Directors: David de Lautour
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
From the Cradle to the Grave
star
7.59
116 votes

#4 - From the Cradle to the Grave

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2022

Mike Shepherd and the team get a lesson in local history when the Brokenwood museum uncovers a dead body in the most unlikely of places.

Directors: Josh Frizzell
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Four Fires and a Funeral
star
7.58
99 votes

#5 - Four Fires and a Funeral

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/2022

The charred remains of a body are discovered in the burned-out remnants of a rural shed, but no one lived there, and no one was meant to be there at all; this is the third in a run of accidental deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade.

Directors: Mike Smith
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Spark to a Flame
star
7.51
101 votes

#6 - Spark to a Flame

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/2022

In the remote community of beaches at Pateke Point, a local resident ends up bludgeoned to death by an unknown blunt object and locked inside a house not her own.

Directors: Jacqueline Nairn
Writer: Roy Ward
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV