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Ordeal by Innocence

(46 Posts)
Nelliemoser Sun 08-Apr-18 22:11:57

Has anybody else seen this. Sunday night 9pm. It is based on a Agatha Christie. Only 3 episodes . And two have just gone. It is really menacing but I am really enjoying it. Very well constructed. Full of good actors .

luluaugust Wed 11-Apr-18 17:08:09

Yeslemongrove very old fashioned of me I know, just hate well leafed books being messed about with. If they want to put on a period crime drama why not write their own, if they can. Look forward? to changed endings to Dickens, Austen etc.

lemongrove Wed 11-Apr-18 17:15:17

Can you imagine Lulu if Elizabeth Bennett said things like
‘Truly, it was a f——ing nightmare Father’.....haha.It could yet happen.

luluaugust Wed 11-Apr-18 17:55:12

I wish I couldn't imagine it - but I can....

travelsafar Thu 12-Apr-18 08:02:17

Off to join a morning whist club today then do my shopping so i might watch this this afternoon as we have yet another dark deary wet day ahead and can't get out in the garden.
Normally i enjoy Agatha Christie stories so it will be perfect i hope.

travelsafar Fri 13-Apr-18 07:37:28

I am hooked, can't wait for the final episode!!

MawBroon Sun 15-Apr-18 21:32:21

Half way through the final episodeI am thinking we could all form an orderly queue to bump “mother” off!
What a monster!

Pittcity Sun 15-Apr-18 22:01:40

I think I understood all that! Phew.

MawBroon Sun 15-Apr-18 22:03:40

Didn’t quite see that coming!

grumppa Sun 15-Apr-18 22:17:53

Some of the lighting was so murky it was difficult to see anything coming.

hildajenniJ Sun 15-Apr-18 22:24:07

Well! There's a surprise. I was not expecting that.

Parsleywin Sun 15-Apr-18 22:52:07

I have astounded myself by correctly guessing this afternoon. That never happens!

travelsafar Mon 16-Apr-18 07:57:41

Me too, i guessed it in the second episode.

The ending caught me out though.

trisher Mon 16-Apr-18 10:33:35

I guessed some of it-but not the final twist. A great entertaining evening watch.

merlotgran Mon 16-Apr-18 13:17:37

Apparently Christie fans are up in arms because the ending was changed.

It wasn't Bill Nighy wot dunnit.

Ilovecheese Mon 16-Apr-18 13:21:52

Christie fans are up in arms because the ending was changed, but the Christie estate is probably pleased because people will be buying the book now to find out who 'really' did it!

luluaugust Mon 16-Apr-18 15:19:48

Yes Ilovecheese that occurred to me and they can rest assured that when they read the book it will be a whole new experience.

merlotgran Mon 16-Apr-18 16:24:59

What's it worth to keep schtum? grin

Deedaa Mon 16-Apr-18 23:41:02

I wish they would take more care with the casting. I was amazed to find the maid was his mother because she looked about the same age as the other women. I'd thought that perhaps she was another adopted child who was relegated to the kitchen when she didn't come up to expectations.

Eloethan Thu 19-Apr-18 00:52:22

I've just caught up with this and, although a lot of people have apparently complained about the ending being changed, the language used, etc. etc., I thought it was pretty good.

chelseababy Tue 24-Apr-18 20:48:10

The Miss Marple version is on ITV3 on 4 May at 8pm. Don't know how it ends but was Marple in the book?