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25 February 2007 (Canada) morePlot:
Miss Marple is called upon to solve her most perplexing case yet. Upon his death, financier John Rafiel asks her to solve a murder... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Another hatchet job! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Geraldine McEwan | ... | Miss Jane Marple | |
| Laura Michelle Kelly | ... | Verity Hunt / Margaret Lumley (as Laura-Michelle Kelly) | |
| Dan Stevens | ... | Michael Faber | |
| Graeme Garden | ... | Matthew Broadribb | |
| Richard E. Grant | ... | Raymond West (as Richard E Grant) | |
| Ruth Wilson | ... | Georgina Barrow | |
| Johnny Briggs | ... | Sydney Lumley | |
| George Cole | ... | Mr. Raeburn | |
| Ronni Ancona | ... | Amanda Dalrymple | |
| Adrian Rawlins | ... | Derek Turnbull | |
| Emily Woof | ... | Rowena Waddy | |
| Will Mellor | ... | Martin Waddy | |
| Anne Reid | ... | Sister Agnes | |
| Amanda Burton | ... | Sister Clotilde | |
| Lee Ingleby | ... | DC Colin Hards |
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Once again we are asked to delve into another McEwan/Marple/Christie murder mystery. Except that it isn't a Christie murder mystery. Only the name remains the same to trap unwary viewers. The real mystery is why the trustees of Dame Agatha's estate ever allowed this series to be made by disrespectful butchers. Only "A Murder is Announced" retained some faithful semblance of the original novels.
All filmed interpretations have taken some artistic licence with Christie's mysteries over the years, which is perfectly acceptable to most Christie fans, but none except this Marple series (and the Tony Randall ABC effort) have turned them into unrecognisable farces. And that is most definitely not acceptable. In the various episodes of McEwen/Marple we've been offered, by way of change to the originals, everything including different characters, different plots, different victims, different culprits, added murders, etc., etc., etc., and of course inclusions of Jane Marple into stories in which she was never intended to appear.
"Nemesis" is the last episode in which Geraldine McEwan dons the mantle of the elderly yet intrepid needle-clicking sleuth (we may, I think, be thankful for the omission of "A Caribbean Mystery"), and it once again takes Dame Agatha's wonderful original tale apart, and reconstitutes it into one that makes little sense, logic, or reason, adds, deletes, and changes characters, presents new plot lines and a new conclusion.
I can't detrimentally criticise the performances, I would be wrong to do so, but when a drama is billed as being based on an Agatha Christie novel I expect it to be, and expect to see, just that. Not something that is haphazardly jumbled together by an inferior hack.