Poirot

"Curtain" was a great ending, and the worst episode was probably "Cards on the Table."

... worse than The Kidnapped Prime Minister?

Card On The Table hit the peak of that painful 00s era of using CGI backdrops unnecessarily where even an obvious soundstage would be less offensive, it's like watching a Baz Luhrmann knock-off at times

Surprised to see anyone disliked Curtain, the pacing wasn't the best but it was a smart, different way of structuring an episode and an interesting ending for the character. Would have been far worse if the stories had ended with one of the high-camp ones or something dull and overly sentimental. You can feel the end of a zeitgeist arriving in the last episodes.

There was so much bad about it: making Dr. Bashir bisexual for no reason at all, having the resolution involve Dr. Bashir wanting to be murdered as an adventure...

ofc
the kidnapped prime minister is a lesser episode to be sure, but it had a kino irish nationalism subplot and poirot treated hastings like a human being and not a punching bag like he does in curtain(among other things)

The editing in the climax is SO bad though, if you go back and watch it it seriously looks like a 60s/70s British cop show it's so choppy. If you're looking for Ireland-kino watch This Time With Alan Partridge.

It's a really great piece of source material. Brannaugh should have adapted it instead of Orient Express, it would have fit the tone he wanted better.

Has anyone seen this, I couldn't get into it and I don't think I watched past the first episode

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The David Suchet version is the definitive adaptation and one of the best episodes of the series imo. The BBC version (distributed by Prime overseas, your pic would suggest) is an edgy embarrassment.

>The one with CIA is good.
GOAT episode. Love how the murder was told from everyone's perspective.

This. Don't get the hate for Curtain. I actually didn't know the twist going into it, and it blew my mind.

well yeah
but i don't watch poirot for good action scenes, so it didn't bother me at all

After the Funeral is great. I called the twist a mile away and felt like a 200 IQ genius. Also pre-fame Michael Fassbender was the cherry on top.

Best: The Clocks
Worst: Maybe one of the shorter episodes, don't remember them very well

Adding the element that all the locations were significant to Poirot was, to me, a step too far: how would the killer (much less Cust), know all these random biographical details of Poirot's life? And then making Poirot a priest before emigrating to England--where did he get his detection skills from, then? But they really wanted to throw Poirot and Japp into disgrace, to make the story more """dramatic."""

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What other meme actors have appeared in Poirot other than CIA and Fassbender? That one dude from The Professionals stars in Three Act Tragedy

i give my wife bull son the complete series of Poirot for christmas

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Jessica Chastain is in the Murder on the Orient Express
that guy that played Doctor Who is in One Two Buckle My Shoe
Emily Blunt is in Death on Nile

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I've seen 3 adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express. My favorite is the Sidney Lumet one, but all the Poirots react differently to the ending. Which one acts most like the book counterpart?

I've only seen Brannaugh's but it's definitely not him. In the book Poirot has no trouble letting them get away with it. He describes the way the crime happened as a hypothetical and sort of nudges the train owner into agreeing to let them all go.

That's like Sydney Lumet's version. In the show he starts crying and yelling at the end

Yeah, I would say the strongest emotion Poirot feels in the books is admiration for what a clever trick the whole thing is. He's certainly not sympathetic for the victim, who was himself a murderer, and the Soldier's description of the proceedings as a jury of twelve peers seems to resonate with him.

Someone on the show must have disagreed with the ending because there letting them go is not even his idea. He thinks it's a great injustice and the whole thing just felt uncomfortable

For whatever reason it seems like a lot of Christie adaptations want to add drama that just isn't there. I honestly can't remember a single Poirot novel where he experiences serious internal conflict, he's just not that deep of a character. He may feel sad about the situation if he likes the murderer, but he never hesitates in revealing them to whoever the authority figure is.

The next adaptation is Death on the Nile, which will be very awkward if treated like a very dramatic story

Not sure I agree. It's got plenty of comedic moments, but it has the most tragic ending of any of Christie's books, I think. Probably the main reason it's my favorite is just how intense the double suicide at the end feels. Definitely, though, it will be garbage if they try to give it the blue filter that every dramatic work has to have these days. Much better to juxtapose the hot sands against the cold blooded murder.

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I really only watch the movie adaptations, even if they're cheap TV-movies. But to me the most dramatic part was the third murder out of nowhere. The suicide at the end wasn't that crazy to me because I feel like it's something I've seen before in similar stories.

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Probably just a difference of presentation. Frankly, the third murder is almost comedic in the book, the way the dumb alcoholic is just droning on and on, and Christie mentions the curtains twitch, and you're just like, "FUCK, get it out you broad," and then boom she's dead. The other reason the suicide hurts, is that the murderer is just so likeable. Her plan is great, she's bold, she's intelligent, and she is undoubtedly a back scratcher in bed.

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> In the episode "Ten Little Niggers"

Almost the entire adult cast of Game of Thrones has been in it at some point

Well, that is certainly different from the movie. In the movie she's just talking when suddenly there's a large bang and her forehead explodes with blood. It's genuinely startling. And the murderer is not that attractive or likeable in the movie. Must've been something they failed to convey.

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Yeah, there's really enough material to go either way, tonally, with an adaptation. I imagine the next one will do it the same way, since that sounds pretty distressing, and will undoubtedly fit better.