Ordeal by Innocence 1/3
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shallownessWithout a Marple or a Poirot, this is one of those Christies where everyone is nasty, or disturbed at least. Setting aside the fact that we all know that any scenes with Christian Cooke as Mickey were reshot, whoa frenetic opening much? It calmed down a bit, but had a lot of cuts from the present to various points in the past.
Loads and loads of thesps you know from other stuff here - some of whom Branagh might easily get for one of his Poirot seqels:
Anna 'Caroline Bingley' Chancellor played the adoptive mother who probably shouldn't have adopted five orphans and may have got murdered for it. Anthony Boyle - the actor I think I know the least, but only matched by Matthew 'Downton' Goode for pulling fiendish faces - played the officially 'disturbed' son who claimed to have an alibi, but his fingerprints said he'd done it. Bill 'Davy Jones' Nighy (reining it in) played the downtrodden father who was now marrying Alice 'Carol Marcus' Eve's strumpet. Christian 'That thing with Claire Foy in Israel' Cooke played the self-harming ex-soldier who hadn't lost his common accent, the only adopted son remaining. Eleanor 'Demelza wouldn't put up with that!' Tomlinson played the brittle oldest orphan, married to a crippled ex-pilot (his alibi being that he was in hospital at the time of the murder), Crystal 'relative newcomer' Clarke played a black Argyll who might be able to give Mickey an alibi, because it looked as if he was trying to rape her at the time, and therefore he was ignoring Ella 'That Tim Burton film where she was blonde' Purnell's youngest (?) daughter, who was a bit of a drugde, even though Morvern 'apparently she was in Hunted' Christie was playing Kirsten the foundling maid who found dead Rachel and screamed her head off. As the Chief Constable seemed to be a bit of a lech, I don't trust him to help justice be done.
Anyway, on the eve of Mr Argyll's remarriage - not welcomed with alacrity by any of his children, seeing as their stepmother is bossy - enter Luke 'The Innocence Project' Treadway's Arthur Calgary - Jack's alibi. As Jack had been killed in prison before the case went to trial, he was sent on his way, but he was upset and stayed at a newrby hotel - instead of, er, going to the police because a murderer was still about.
We got a whole new angle on things just before the credits (and in the clips from the next episode interspersed through the credits). They're ramping up paranoia about nuclear war, but there was plenty of nasitness when people were around each other.
Possibly best followed up by a chaser of comedy, or something.
Loads and loads of thesps you know from other stuff here - some of whom Branagh might easily get for one of his Poirot seqels:
Anna 'Caroline Bingley' Chancellor played the adoptive mother who probably shouldn't have adopted five orphans and may have got murdered for it. Anthony Boyle - the actor I think I know the least, but only matched by Matthew 'Downton' Goode for pulling fiendish faces - played the officially 'disturbed' son who claimed to have an alibi, but his fingerprints said he'd done it. Bill 'Davy Jones' Nighy (reining it in) played the downtrodden father who was now marrying Alice 'Carol Marcus' Eve's strumpet. Christian 'That thing with Claire Foy in Israel' Cooke played the self-harming ex-soldier who hadn't lost his common accent, the only adopted son remaining. Eleanor 'Demelza wouldn't put up with that!' Tomlinson played the brittle oldest orphan, married to a crippled ex-pilot (his alibi being that he was in hospital at the time of the murder), Crystal 'relative newcomer' Clarke played a black Argyll who might be able to give Mickey an alibi, because it looked as if he was trying to rape her at the time, and therefore he was ignoring Ella 'That Tim Burton film where she was blonde' Purnell's youngest (?) daughter, who was a bit of a drugde, even though Morvern 'apparently she was in Hunted' Christie was playing Kirsten the foundling maid who found dead Rachel and screamed her head off. As the Chief Constable seemed to be a bit of a lech, I don't trust him to help justice be done.
Anyway, on the eve of Mr Argyll's remarriage - not welcomed with alacrity by any of his children, seeing as their stepmother is bossy - enter Luke 'The Innocence Project' Treadway's Arthur Calgary - Jack's alibi. As Jack had been killed in prison before the case went to trial, he was sent on his way, but he was upset and stayed at a newrby hotel - instead of, er, going to the police because a murderer was still about.
We got a whole new angle on things just before the credits (and in the clips from the next episode interspersed through the credits). They're ramping up paranoia about nuclear war, but there was plenty of nasitness when people were around each other.
Possibly best followed up by a chaser of comedy, or something.
