I've read terrible reviews about this show, but I was such a great fan of David Suchet's series that I just had to watch this and thus get myself a new fix of Poirot.
After watching this episode, I can only conclude that those terrible reviews came from people who've read Agatha Christie's books and found significant discrepancy, in an unwanted way, between the books and this show. I haven't read them, so I cannot compare, I can only be influenced by what I just watched. I really liked the acting and the whole ambience. There's this weirdly comfortable dark setting throughout the whole episode. I also enjoyed watching an older Poirot, someone who's been forgotten by pretty much everyone, someone who's not respected, anymore. So, he's more of a loner, poking around stuff all by himself. I think that John Malkovich does a convincing job portraying such an older, forgotten, almost disgraced Poirot, but then again, I always liked Malkovich on screen.
Though it still seems to suffer a bit from "style over substance", I thought this first episode was good enough to keep me curious about the other two. So, off I go, two more to watch!
Shout by kinkyVIP EP 6BlockedParent2019-01-04T16:25:22Z
I've read terrible reviews about this show, but I was such a great fan of David Suchet's series that I just had to watch this and thus get myself a new fix of Poirot.
After watching this episode, I can only conclude that those terrible reviews came from people who've read Agatha Christie's books and found significant discrepancy, in an unwanted way, between the books and this show. I haven't read them, so I cannot compare, I can only be influenced by what I just watched. I really liked the acting and the whole ambience. There's this weirdly comfortable dark setting throughout the whole episode. I also enjoyed watching an older Poirot, someone who's been forgotten by pretty much everyone, someone who's not respected, anymore. So, he's more of a loner, poking around stuff all by himself. I think that John Malkovich does a convincing job portraying such an older, forgotten, almost disgraced Poirot, but then again, I always liked Malkovich on screen.
Though it still seems to suffer a bit from "style over substance", I thought this first episode was good enough to keep me curious about the other two. So, off I go, two more to watch!