![]() ![]() Here, she hews closely to her source material when it comes to basic plot mechanics, but fleshes out her drama by concocting a backstory for Poirot that doubles as the show’s second mystery. Having originally aired on the BBC last December, The ABC Murders is the latest small-screen Christie affair penned by Sarah Phelps, previously responsible for 2015’s sturdy And Then There Were None and last year’s over-the-top Ordeal by Innocence. But thanks to this engaging-and slyly timely-adaptation of Christie’s 1936 novel, it ably earns first-runner-up status. ![]() 1) will not be remembered as the finest in the sleuth’s long and illustrious history. To that end, John Malkovich’s version of the character in Amazon’s new three-part miniseries The ABC Murders (premiering Feb. For Agatha Christie fans, there will probably never be a Hercule Poirot greater than David Suchet, whose meticulous (and marvelously mustached) embodiment of the famed detective on PBS’s Poirot remains the high water mark against which all others-including Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, Alfred Molina, Ian Holm and, most recently, Kenneth Branagh in 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express-must be judged. ![]()
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