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How was this ever made?
There is little of Agatha Christie’s beloved character of Poirot. It is however reminiscent of the dark depressing last two seasons of the series starring David Suchet. We see a grayish yellow Poirot sad lonely and disrespected. No Hastings or Miss Lemon and we are even deprived of Inspector Japp. It is easy to write dark and dreary. Harder to write with wit and intelligence. How this production got made is the real mystery here. There is no spark the characters are the nastiest crude and disgusting. The pace is set at a dull and dreary depressing rate. BBC made a very bad call here. While some may say I was looking for a version of the old series , I was not. I was looking for the creative spirit of Agatha Christie here. But she too was pushed aside for some writer who had the ego to think they could write better than her. Boring. Laborious. Depressing. Dull.
