Agatha Christie's Poirot: After the Funeral
August 3, 2022 7:19 PM - Season 10, Episode 3 - Subscribe
At Richard Abernethie's funeral his niece, Cora, suggests he was probably murdered. The next day Cora is murdered herself, so Poirot interrogates the family to find her killer.
Not only that, but it was fruitcake. Everyone knows that you don't actually eat fruitcake.
But for me, it was the amount of time she was on screen --and this story had a lot of characters-- and when I see a female character with no make up and appearing very mousy, I always wonder what she'd look like in full on face and hair, and of course there was a character like that... So the switch I figured out but the motive, since it was all about forged wills and missing estate papers, eluded me unless one of those paintings was an undiscovered Renoir. I was also distracted by all the nuns. One thing this series seems to do is, during Poirot's final roundup of the suspects, he rattles off a lot of secrets/motives that come out of nowhere whereas in the books, enough hints are dropped if you go back and reread it. The mother's affair, the actress's trip to that hotbed of abortionists, Camden Town, the cousins' (!!) liaison (were they actual cousins? the introduction at the beginning was so rushed). I also found the geography annoying obscured, how close were these houses that they always seemed to be popping over but then the original siblings/spouses hadn't seen each other in 20 years.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:48 PM on August 4, 2022
But for me, it was the amount of time she was on screen --and this story had a lot of characters-- and when I see a female character with no make up and appearing very mousy, I always wonder what she'd look like in full on face and hair, and of course there was a character like that... So the switch I figured out but the motive, since it was all about forged wills and missing estate papers, eluded me unless one of those paintings was an undiscovered Renoir. I was also distracted by all the nuns. One thing this series seems to do is, during Poirot's final roundup of the suspects, he rattles off a lot of secrets/motives that come out of nowhere whereas in the books, enough hints are dropped if you go back and reread it. The mother's affair, the actress's trip to that hotbed of abortionists, Camden Town, the cousins' (!!) liaison (were they actual cousins? the introduction at the beginning was so rushed). I also found the geography annoying obscured, how close were these houses that they always seemed to be popping over but then the original siblings/spouses hadn't seen each other in 20 years.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:48 PM on August 4, 2022
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