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Post by beverley61 on Apr 6, 2021 14:32:46 GMT
I was quite looking forward to this but after a few minutes I felt like I'd seen it before and indeed I think it was a cut and paste job of other programmes. I was very disappointed that it was the usual hodge podge of celebs gushing about how much they adored Poirot.
I thought we were going to see the places the stories were set. It would have been nice to hear about the police in Belgium prior to WW1 and the kind of living that Poirot might have had that gave him enough of a pension to set himself up nicely in the UK. There was a bit here and there but nothing that I hadn't seen elsewhere.
Was it just me or had some of these (or all of these) vox pops been on previously.
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Post by Miranda on Apr 6, 2021 18:24:34 GMT
Glad I didn't bother with it then. Thank you for your service!
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Post by linseed on Apr 6, 2021 19:24:30 GMT
I’ve recorded it but am sorry to read that it’s not so good. May well keep it on the system and watch at some point. Thanks for the review!
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Post by pandaeyes on Apr 7, 2021 9:56:07 GMT
I too was disappointed by it. Interesting to see the way the different actors portrayed him, but not much of an in depth view.
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Post by beverley61 on Apr 7, 2021 11:43:01 GMT
No, not in depth. We know she never described him in terms of colouring but did describe his clothes and fastidiousness. It would have been good to have an historical clothing expert to say something. Was this type of clothing popular in Belgium when he was younger, was it what a police detective would typically wear or was it completely outlandish even then.
We were told that she set a lot of her stories in familiar places and places she visited. I would have liked a bit more information on the houses, she often wrote about incredibly wealthy people. As she was was comfortably middle class how did she move in these circles and know these things.
A little more information about the forensic knowledge of poisons she had from a forensics expert could have added some flavour in relation to what was known then and what is known now and how would Poirot have such in depth knowledge of this - as opposed to the UK police he comes across that don't seem to have this knowledge. Were people poisoned more often in Belgium. (Besides, I often think Marple has a better understanding of poison than Poirot - is this true, is he really the master).
And Hastings, yes we know he is portrayed as a bit if a dimwit, but it is Hastings with his connections who introduces Poirot to the upper echelons and gets the invitations that launch his career. Hastings is integral to everything, without him Poirot would have been chasing divorces.
A proper academic evaluation of Poirot would have been excellent, instead of a three course meal from Christie's archives.
Look it wasn't the worst one of these types of programmes but it just wasn't in anyway a detailed look at Poirot, why people took to him, how he evolved and how he was supported by his ensemble. It was a bit like those 'Favourite Chocolate Bars of the 1970s' programmes and passed the time.
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