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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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.