Unlike most of the reviewers, I actually have read 'Hickory Dickory Dock' which Agatha Christie wrote in the 1950s and is set in post-war England. For some inexplicable reason, the producers moved the story to the 1930s. They also got rid of all the non-white characters from the book and needlessly brought in a left-wing British politician who is not there in the book.
I burst out laughing when Poirot asks Sally Finch, the American student, if she was in England on a Fulbright scholarship. The Fulbright program started in 1946 but this adaptation of Christie's tale is set in the 1930s! Anthony Horowitz, the writer, is responsible for this anachronism. Evidently, he knew nothing about American history.
As other reviewers have pointed out, the mouse gets too much screen-time and the poor attempts at humor involving Poirot's and Japp's cooking are not funny.
I love 'Poirot' and David Suchet, but this episode is simply awful.
I burst out laughing when Poirot asks Sally Finch, the American student, if she was in England on a Fulbright scholarship. The Fulbright program started in 1946 but this adaptation of Christie's tale is set in the 1930s! Anthony Horowitz, the writer, is responsible for this anachronism. Evidently, he knew nothing about American history.
As other reviewers have pointed out, the mouse gets too much screen-time and the poor attempts at humor involving Poirot's and Japp's cooking are not funny.
I love 'Poirot' and David Suchet, but this episode is simply awful.