Ach, I'm a big fan of Geraldine McEwan but this is a right old heap of baloney.
It seems like ITV had done their focus groups and decided that the perfect anodyne formula for elderly Daily Mail readers was the bones of a Christie story, some nice English rural settings and a sprinkling of well-known faces hoping to appeal to all the important demographic groups. If you've got all that, no need to bother with any depth or drama.
So we get Ken Russell as a batty old vicar, Frances de la Tour wondering what on earth she let herself in for, Harry Enfield as a creepy doctor and John Sessions, well just being gay. They all do a good turn in their own way, but it does seem like they just wanted to be in an Agatha Christie story, unless they actually needed the money.
Most unsettling of all was the drippy 'central' character, who looked exactly like a young Alan Hansen recovering from a knee injury. I was just expecting him to turn to camera any moment and say 'ye win nothing with celebrity cameos'.
It seems like ITV had done their focus groups and decided that the perfect anodyne formula for elderly Daily Mail readers was the bones of a Christie story, some nice English rural settings and a sprinkling of well-known faces hoping to appeal to all the important demographic groups. If you've got all that, no need to bother with any depth or drama.
So we get Ken Russell as a batty old vicar, Frances de la Tour wondering what on earth she let herself in for, Harry Enfield as a creepy doctor and John Sessions, well just being gay. They all do a good turn in their own way, but it does seem like they just wanted to be in an Agatha Christie story, unless they actually needed the money.
Most unsettling of all was the drippy 'central' character, who looked exactly like a young Alan Hansen recovering from a knee injury. I was just expecting him to turn to camera any moment and say 'ye win nothing with celebrity cameos'.