Agatha Christie meets Mark Heap and (zomg) Stephen Mangan in this most recent adaptation of her 1965 mystery. A pair of witty Janes (Miss Marple plus a young protégé) help Mangan’s earnest but not-as-sharp Scotland Yard inspector investigate a pair of murders at a posh London hotel positively oozing with postwar intrigue. Heap plays the uptight and jumpy hotel manager, of course. Ridiculously convoluted and stagy denouement, of course. Expect nothing less! Hokey and wonderful.
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We’re currently obsessed with Bones, and I’m reading the Kathy Reichs books the TV series is based upon. This sounds like PBS Mystery fare, a previous addiction.
PBS Mystery, you got it. Altogether wholesome fare to which my obsession with the aforementioned British comedians led me, from the less wholesome but SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME I CAN’T BEGIN TO TELL YOU “Green Wing.”