The Pale Horse

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BBC 1 9pm

Enjoy

@cologne4711

not sure it would be appropriate to ogle a high ranking Nazi official!

It most certainly isn't, but I made an exception for Rufus.

What have they done to Bertie Carvel? . It shouldn’t be allowed

It most certainly isn't, but I made an exception for Rufus Ha ha.

As usual the film/series strays from the book

Ye gods, Rufus Sewell is one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.

It was all very enjoyable. I’m looking forward to settling down with this again tonight.
I also remember Sewell as Ladislaw (A Level Middlemarch) and he was hot then and is still hot now.
I think not having read the book is perhaps rather an advantage to enjoyment of this. In and of itself I find it fab TV... not looking too hard at the details though!
(Never seen a village like that fictional golden-stoned Much Deeping in the South East!)

I was pleasantly surprised, especially as I’d hated the last three BBC Christies (though And Then There Were None was excellent). I haven’t read the book so am not distracted by noticing the plot changes. I thought it was very well-filmed, with very striking mise-en-scene at key moments.

And Then There Were None was indeed absolutely excellent. Aidan Turner .... Rufus Sewell ...

I haven't ever read an Agatha Christie! But thanks to the BBC R4extra have heard many of them.

I think they have a far harder edge than the cosy style the early tv series of both Poirot and Marple, and was well aware that life wasn't all apple pie and cream (eg her own first marriage).

Also she wrote into the 50s & 60s so aren't sure why this setting for this interpretation is a problem. But do think it seems to be another of those dramas where they are trying to impose 2020 sensibilities. I suspect the main character is a real shit!

Slightly off topic but my memory of the last Poirot in the tv series was very dark (I dont just mean the lighting!) and depressing. Does anyone know if this is true to the book?

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Sewell is lovely.

Especially liked him in the Tourist

......uuuuum: can anyone explain the ending? He's doomed to dream of his wife's death indefinitely...??

I would also like an explanation 🤣

@stumbledin: are you thinking of the ABC Murders? That definitely took some liberties with the book/created a (I thought credible/interesting) backstory for Poirot ... but also made a few changes to up the sexy/dark tone which I was somewhat less forgingiin of (BDSM echoes)

can anyone explain the ending? He's doomed to dream of his wife's death indefinitely...??

Seconding this request. I read the book decades ago and am intending re-reading it but I have no idea what happened.

I immediately came on here in the hopes that someone is cleverer than me and can explain the end!

Err...what just happened? Am I being a tad dense (I’ve not been very well recently), but I’m none the wiser about what all that was about.

I enjoyed the 1st episode

The 2nd was shite

Hmmm. Not a clue about that ending.

Oh good i wasnt the only one who didnt understand the ending

I didn't get the end either..... has the wife plotted for his death with the 3 witches?

I didn’t understand it either 🤔