In the wake of another murder, Poirot and Crome begin to narrow in on the killer.
A third murder leads to sensational headlines and ridicule for Poirot and Crome, who discover the connection between the murders and try to use it to work out who will be the ABC killer's next victim.
In 1933, retired detective Hercule Poirot starts to receive threatening letters signed "ABC". When he informs Scotland Yard, they ignore his fears, and soon enough, a series of killings begins.
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Title: The ABC Murders (2018– )
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| Series cast summary: | |||
| John Malkovich | ... | Hercule Poirot 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Eamon Farren | ... | Cust 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Michael Shaeffer | ... | Sergeant Yelland 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Rupert Grint | ... | Inspector Crome 3 episodes, 2018 | |
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Conrad McCroddan | ... | Beautiful Young Man 3 episodes, 2018 |
| Freya Mavor | ... | Thora Grey 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Shirley Henderson | ... | Rose Marbury 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Anya Chalotra | ... | Lily Marbury 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Andrew Buchan | ... | Franklin Clarke 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Tara Fitzgerald | ... | Lady Hermione Clarke 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Bronwyn James | ... | Megan Barnard 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Christopher Villiers | ... | Sir Carmichael Clarke 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Jack Farthing | ... | Donald Fraser 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Suzanne Packer | ... | Capstick 3 episodes, 2018 | |
| Eve Austin | ... | Betty Barnard 3 episodes, 2018 | |
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Tamzin Griffin | ... | Alice Asher 2 episodes, 2018 |
| Lizzy McInnerny | ... | Jenny Barnard 2 episodes, 2018 | |
Set in the 1930s, a time when Britain is dangerously divided and suspicion and hatred are on the rise, the story sees Poirot face a serial killer known only as A.B.C. As the body count rises, the only clue is a copy of The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot's investigations are continuously thwarted by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If Poirot is to match his nemesis, then everything about him will be called into question: his authority, his integrity, his past and his identity.
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Firstly this is certainly mostly watchable.
Secondly I guess I will be downvoted by some since this is likely an adaption that will create a divide between people who love it or hate it, or at least those who like it a lot or not at all, and I am in the middle.
In short some of the lower reviews are because this is great material, and the lead is a great actor, and yet this is a just a passable say a "fair to good" or what we stateside would call a "C+" to "B-"
Really does Christie portray the police so badly? (Correct Answer: No.) Would she have so many anachronistic behaviors and character attributes? No. Would she have native Francophone Belgian Poirot speak lousy French? No and Malkovich has impeccable French and seems to have been directed to speak French badly.
It isn't so much that that the series is terrible, it isn't. It is a) expectations should be high and the end product is mediocre, and b) one senses an intentional distancing from the source material -- which is often ok, but in this case the distancing does not work. This adaption doesn't just have condensations of the material -- it has added quirks and elements that not only are not in the Christie story, but detract from it. They create a different Poirot. Not different as in Suchet vs Malkovich portrayals, but the director/screenwriter vs Christie. EG, the bizarre overlay of immigration themes/controversy is a pointless attempt to score points and doesn't belong in this story. Adding a grittiness, and a literal darkness is not needed either. It seems a fashionable trope now, but there is no need when the original material already has its own texture that the adaptor obfuscates or fundamentally distracts from with their own vision. It is over the top.
Look I am all for adapting major literary/cultural archetypes, even subverting them -- in what they do and what the moral tale is. It is perfectly OK to tell two completely different morals with Prometheus, Daedalus or Electra and Orestes. Byron can subvert Mill on the former. Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Graves and Williams can use the latter to very different conclusions. But you don't just take a relatively contemporary character, created by another artist and change their characteristics to the point where they are unrecognizable and their actions are not credible.
Again, it s a C+ to B-, bring on the downvotes if you must. Oh and turn up the brightness on your screen, for some reason the adaptors think making everything actually dark equals a figurative darkness.