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AGATHA CHRISTIE PALE HORSE SERIES
Sean Pertwee (Gotham, Doctor Who) is Inspector Stanley Lejeune, responsible for tracking down a series of murders. Its rider’s name was Death…” In the novel the Pale Horse is the local inn. The story’s title comes from the Revelations story from The Bible: “Then I looked and saw a pale horse.
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The series stars Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle, Zen, A Knight’s Tale) as Mark Easterbrook, the story’s main protagonist, a historian who accompanies a celebrated mystery author named Ariadne Oliver to a small town called Much Deeping (Oliver was based on Christie, but may or may not be a player in the Amazon adaptation). Norrell, Sherlock, Doctor Who) as another man interviewed in relation to the deaths.Ī celebrated Agatha Christie supernatural mystery from 1961, The Pale Horse has been adapted into a mini-series, and it’s coming to Amazon next month. Easterbrook and Bertie Carvel (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Rounding out the cast are familiar genre faces Georgina Campbell (His Dark Materials, Krypton, Broadchurch, Black Mirror) as the first Mrs. This is another Christie story of lies, and the lying liars that tell them, with the oddball, quirky twists we saw in both The ABC Murders and Murder on the Orient Express. Easterbrook’s second wife, a key player in the story, is played by Kaya Scodelario ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Maze Runner). Much Deeping has an inn, an inn that is home to three witches, and he figures that somehow they are connected.
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Easterbrook decides to investigate himself, to beat the inspector to the answer, which takes him to the small town of Much Deeping. Why women are ending up dead found on the list, and why Easterbrook’s name was included, is the key mystery of this two-part series.Īs Easterbrook is hounded by the local police led by Sean Pertwee ( Gotham, Doctor Who) as Inspector Stanley Lejeune–who is investigating the string of deaths. Remember his name, because it is included last on a list found in the shoe of another dead woman. The series stars Rufus Sewell ( The Man in the High Castle, Zen, A Knight’s Tale) as Mark Easterbrook, a man of questionable character whose wife dies in the bathtub at the beginning of the story. The new series is Christie’s creepy tale The Pale Horse, a supernatural mystery from 1961, directed by Leonora Lonsdale (Beast). Screenwriter Sarah Phelps (EastEnders, Dublin Murders) is back with her next project, another adaptation of a well-known Agatha Christie work, a year from release of her first Amazon Studios project, The ABC Murders (reviewed here at borg), which starred John Malkovich and Rupert Grint. It’s almost as if they want brother and son Jack to be guilty. Calgary appears long after the fact to clear Jack’s name, his mission of mercy and justice is met with strange reactions from all involved. Jack, with his contentious relationship with Rachel and a history of petty crime, seems the ideal suspect for the crime. Jack Argyll (Jacko in the novel, played here by Derry Girls’ Anthony Boyle) has been convicted of the murder of his adopted mother, philanthropist Rachel Argyll, matriarch of a clan of adopted children and assorted other household members. One lonesome night, scientist Arthur Calgary (played by Attack the Block’s Luke Treadaway) picks up a hitchhiker, and then is unavoidably detained, unaware that his testimony could make or break a murder trial. Published in 1958, Ordeal by Innocence centers around the classic mystery trope of the missing alibi witness, but with a tragic twist. I came into the three-part miniseries immediately after reading Christie’s novel. But in the case of Ordeal by Innocence, the delivery is more even-handed and her departures make the story better.
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Phelps is known for adding prurient subtext and graphic imagery to her film versions, efforts that typically seem uncomfortably gratuitous (such as the gore and sado-masochism in The ABC Murders, reviewed here at borg). In many ways, the 2018 television series is better than its source material. It is without doubt writer Sarah Phelps’s Ordeal by Innocence, and it stands out as the best of her recent adaptations of Christie’s works. Make no mistake, despite the title, this BBC adaptation really is not Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence.