Anyone else watching The ABC Murders this Christmas? I don’t really do cozy mysteries, but I’m finding it really enjoyable and very character driven.
Anyone else watching The ABC Murders this Christmas? I don’t really do cozy mysteries, but I’m finding it really enjoyable and very character driven.
I’m recording it, going to binge watch it this weekend
Good, succinct comment. It seems to hang within the Christie style rather than hell for leather action. Characterisation is brill.
Not so cozy?
Have recorded them, going to watch the first one tonight
Cozys don’t normally have Skanky landladies whoring out their teenage daughters and faded theatricals diying in a pool of their own piss. Its a Christie in name and concept, but it’s been taken somewhere else entirely. Which is fine: classics allow endless adaptation and reframing. But I can see why some would dislike it. Still better than any of ITVs Godawful Marple, mind…
Am really enjoying it. It’s the only good thing that has been put on over Christmas.
While I accept many of you dislike my use of the word cosy, Agatha Christie’s works are genred as thus. And I shall stick by my use of the word because the book which this program is an adaptation of is listed under “cosy crime.”
Same here going to binge watch at the weekend
Don’t much like Agatha Christie went to show in London once and me a chronic insomniac fell asleep , so not for me lol
Me neither but I’m finding this series really gripping.
I’m watching it but I’m not enjoying it as an Agatha Christie and I’m constantly having to remind myself it’s Poirot. It’s to far from the original for me and to dark . I won’t say to much as people haven’t seen it but I’m not impressed.
. ..totally agree with you bringe watched the three episodes last night & found it v slow, Malkovic’s Poirot medicore and the storyline rather far removed from the original .. wonder what the great lady herself, would make of it?? I’d imagine she would have been a little disappointed!!
I constantly had to remind myself it was Hercule and Agatha Christie otherwise I could have been watching something completely different. I didn’t like the dark, perverse nature that was brought in either. That’s not what Agatha Christie is all about.
@Melanie yes felt that the original story had been mostly rewritten & an extra dimension added to throw us mere spectators of the plot ..maybe I’m completely wrong ..if so, I stand corrected. Anyway speaking of Agatha Christie ..did you watch “The Truth of Murder” ..a fictional story of her disappearance in 1926?? on channel 5?
No I need to get that on catch up I’ll ditch the football and do that now. Thanks for the reminder x
@Melanie hope you enjoy …have a good evening x
Just finished watching it. Now that has cleansed my mind after The ABC Murders. Thank you I enjoyed it . Not an Agatha Christie but more like we’re used too. X
I am watching it and have to say it is a great adaptation ?
Me too but we seem to be in a minority.
I’m hooked ?
It’s dark, depressing characters and scenery befitting the times I think and John Malkovic’s interpretation is refreshing,a man with demons of his own. Not chocolate box cosy crime in the slightest, and I’m enjoying it.
Really wasn’t that great – didn’t need to take 3 hours.
I agree.