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  1. 26 Dec 2018

    I don’t actually care who plays Poirot (though Suchet is the only one I want to read the audiobooks) but DO NOT mess with the plot of Agatha Christie books. She knew exactly what she was doing. It doesn’t need fascism and sex to add interest.JUST TELL THE DAMN STORY.

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  2. 26 Dec 2018

    Director: "Can you do a Belgian accent?" John Malkovich: "Probably!" Director: [First day of filming] "Ah, shit..."

  3. 26 Dec 2018

    I can't find anyone playing Captain Hasting in the cast list. Also a lack of Inspector Japp. Is there a reason why Sally Phelps has dispensed with them? Not happy

  4. 26 Dec 2018

    None of this is in this book. Calling this an adaptation would be like saying Gordon Ramsay cooking vension was an adaptation of Bambi.

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  5. 26 Dec 2018

    Maybe Sarah Phelps should write her own murder mystery rather than do a hatchet job on Agatha Christie’s work

  6. 26 Dec 2018

    So there was a murder and the victim was Agatha Christie’s book

  7. 26 Dec 2018

    I've stuck with as long as I can, but this is bollocks. I appreciate the need to update things, but Agatha Christie was not noir. There was a lightness, a whimsy, a sense of humour even in the darkest stories. This is just gloomy, miserable and dull.

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  8. 27 Dec 2018

    This version of is dark, paranoid and claustrophobic. And it is great as a result. Poirot is more human and vulnerable - it's not Suchet because it isn't meant to be.

  9. Very much hope Chris Grayling is watching to see how the trains ran so well in 1933 a serial killer could plot his murders by them. Nowadays they’d send Poirot the clues but be a day late due to a rail replacement service.

  10. 26 Dec 2018

    So.. Style of dancing that wouldn't have been popular here in 1933. Trains that weren't in operation at that time. A phone displaying 999 when it was yet to be in operation. Language that seemed out of place for the time. Hmm not great

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  11. 28 Dec 2018

    John Malkovich great, no problem with goatee or reimagining Agatha Christie but this adaptation is unnecessarily sleazy and race stuff is subtle as a sledgehammer. Particularly rubbish that the lower classes appear to all be alcoholics, perverts or prostitutes 🙄

  12. 26 Dec 2018

    Very disappointed with John Malkovitch version of , it's dull, dark and dreary and just too slow, not to mention killed off Japp at the beginning & no Hastings, going to see if I can find the Suchet version on ITV Catchup, sorry I missed it this afternoon!

  13. 28 Dec 2018

    Absolutely loving on . Stunning piece of drama, I’ll always be a fan as a true Poirot but these episodes and new take on Christie’s work has been brilliant.

  14. 26 Dec 2018

    I’m not convinced that Sarah Phelps should be allowed anywhere near Agatha Christie’s work. Her adaptations remove all the light from a story and they drag.

  15. 28 Dec 2018

    I’m just hoping we find out what happens to the boil on the big chaps neck... a spin off series of its own, surely

  16. 26 Dec 2018

    Am I alone in finding it tedious?

  17. 26 Dec 2018

    Trying my hardest to like ABC murders but all we are saying is it's not right. Poirot should have a moustache not a grey beard. David Suchet will take some beating. Don't remember inspector Japp dying either , gutted x

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  18. 26 Dec 2018

    Think the problem is I’ve been lucky to live in era of definitive characterisations of some famous detectives: poirot = suchet, Marple = hickson, Holmes = Brett nobody else quite matches up & like many modern takes are unnecessarily dark & grim

  19. 26 Dec 2018

    David Suchet is Hercule Poirot; Joan Hickson is Miss Marple Sorry but that’s just the way it is....

  20. 26 Dec 2018
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    What have you done....I don’t understand why you keep adapting Agatha Christie novels when you seem to dislike them so much.

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