Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

After being shown on Britbox (does anyone actually have Britbox?) we plebs got to see Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? this Easter, much trumpeted as being adapted by your actual Hugh Laurie and sticking faithfully to the source, unlike Not Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. I don’t think that I’ve read the original (but I never remember whodunnit in Christie novels that I have read, in any case.) I meant to post about it episode by episode, but here’s my response to the whole.

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[Edited for typos 31/5/25.]