Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Yellow Iris

February 23, 2022 11:19 AM - Season 5, Episode 3

When the Belgian detective receives a yellow iris through the post, he recalls a murder he witnessed two years earlier in Buenos Aires. Subsequent events suggest that a similar crime could happen again.
posted by Carillon (3 comments total)

This one ended up being pretty convoluted. The name of the restaurant, Jardin des Cygnes I thought made for an interesting name, it maybe sounded more haute cuisine at the time. I thought the Argentina scenes were well done, really helped ramp the paranoia. Plus always fun to see the fussy Poirot bum-rushed out of a country.
posted by Carillon at 11:24 AM on February 23, 2022

The English, they do not have a cuisine, my friend. They have only the food.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:08 PM on February 23, 2022

I thought this one was pretty impressive considering how short the original short story is -- they really gave it a lot of heft.
posted by knownassociate at 10:05 AM on February 24, 2022