Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep4 “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002)

07/11/22 • 27 min

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet Poirot “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002). Teresa talks about the differences between the novel and the movie, what the movie missed, how Mrs. Leidner was based on a real person (whose first husband was definitely NOT a spy for Germany), and other missed opportunities.

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press booth all day. For details, visit our website.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the Kenneth Branaugh “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) starring Sir Kenny, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Michelle Pfeiffer. Teresa talks about how Branaugh misplays Poirot and why the movie gets worse on repeated viewings.

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Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep5 “Sparkling Cyanide” (2003)

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2003 made-for-British-TV movie “Sparkling Cyanide,” which mixed Christie with “House of Cards.” Updated for the post-9/11 era, it features a vulgar football club owner; a rising governmental minister having an affair with the tycoon's wife; his star striker dating the tycoon's daughter; and a secret government agency spying on them for the prime minister!

With its pro-surveillance state politics, it could have been a propaganda movie from the Ministry of Information in “1984.” In her spoiler-heavy review, Teresa rants about the movie’s big plot holes, it’s “CSI”-like tech that China wishes it has, and why you should still watch it.

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