First of all it must be said that the production values of the Poirot series get better and better. However, with "Taken At The Flood" the adapter completely misses the point of the title! We know it is from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and refers to the killer making the most of the opportunity presented in the aftermath of the wartime bombing of Gordon Cloade's London House. In the television adaptation the killer has actually planned the explosion .. .. .. therefore there was no taking the moment for gain! I would love to have had the play take place in the war/immediate post war period. The changes in plot lines seem to me to cause the adapters more problems than leaving them as they were written.
Review of Taken at the Flood
