@Branagh: if you really wanted a clean-shaven Golden Age detective with a tragic WWI backstory, Lord Peter is right there. Do it now while Jessie Buckley isn’t too old to play Strong Poison-era Harriet.
my favourite thing about hercule poirot is that once he solved the murder he just makes everyone involved sit in a circle and dig shit about everyone before telling who’s the killer he’s like “i know we’re here because someone is dead but lemme tell you susan is the illegitimate child of paul and bethany is in love with her step brother. this had absolutly nothing to do with the killing but i thought yall should know tbh. now about the murder”
i can’t believe they tried to make a sexy gritty hercule poirot…..you fools. you cowards. poirot is about kitschy scandal. it’s about Bad Cinema. it’s about being a french asshole on purpose but somehow still being likable. but more than anything it’s about taking your sweet ass time making a bunch of rich people look like idiots in increasingly morbid and ridiculous ways. you absolute buffoons
outing myself as one of the buffoons
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(viaPeriod Dramas Prime February 2019) The list of period dramas new on Prime Video in February is up, and will be updated all month, as new titles are announced!
- Here’s a fine dish of tea! Peer of the realm murdered in cold blood under the noses of 400 revellers. We’ll need the Albert Hall to gather the suspects on this one.
‘I remember coming up here when we were at Cambridge,’ Arthur says conversationally as Poirot inspects the path. The bushes and hedges and drooping tree limbs. ‘His family threw some amazing parties, back in the day. We’d take our sweethearts out here for a bit of…you know. Well, he would. I was sweet on his sister, swell girl, but she wasn’t that interested.’
‘Mon pauvre Hastings,’ Poirot replies without sounding much sorry for him at all.
