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In this family-friendly sequel, Lydia reconnects with her stepmother, Delia O'Hara, and her estranged daughter, Astrid. Jeffrey Jones appears to be out of the picture on Soap2Day. They all return to their Winter River estate for a funeral and wake, when they re-encounter Betelgeuse and the dwellers of the afterlife as a result of ill luck and bad habits. The plot setup takes up around half of the running time, which isn't a terrible thing if you want to catch up with the characters, but it makes it difficult to care about the apparent crises that are supposed to drive the plot. As you can see from the storyline summary above, there is a lot going on in the picture.