"The latest, however, is for Netflix by Chris Chibnall and we are back in the world of period costume, clipped vowels and dialogue infused with nothing but plot, designed to get the puzzle pieces recited into the right position for the next bit then the next bit then the solve this time at the end of three very hour-long episodes."
"We then cut to a party in a grand house being held by northern industrialists, the Cootes, who have rented the house from Lady Caterham (Helena Bonham Carter) because she has class but no cash and they have cash but no class. You get the idea. If you don't, there's a scene where Lady Coote cheats at bridge, so we all know where we stand."
Chris Chibnall's Netflix adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials adopts period costume, clipped vowels and puzzle-driven dialogue across three hour-long episodes. The adaptation opens in Ronda, 1920, with Iain Glen gored to death by a bull and a clock-printed note delivered before his evisceration. The story then moves to a northern industrialist party at a grand house rented from Lady Caterham (Helena Bonham Carter). Lady Eileen Bundle Brent (Mia McKenna-Bruce) enjoys the party while Gerry Wade (Corey Mylchreest), her late brother's friend, plans to propose before a subsequent crisis. The adaptation favors plot mechanics over postwar grief-inflected depth and includes pointed notes on posh character affectations and grammatical slips.
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