Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 (2006) (season)
Directed by:
Peter MedakScreenplay:
Stewart HarcourtComposer:
Dominik ScherrerCast:
Geraldine McEwan, Anthony Andrews, Greta Scacchi, Clare Holman, Claire Bloom, Steven Berkoff, Josie Lawrence, Michelle Ryan, Charles DanceVOD (2)
Plots(1)
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, Tuppence is concerned by the odd behavior of some staff and residents. So when Tuppence hears about Aunt Ada's sudden death and the disappearance of her friend Mrs Lancaster, she realizes her concerns were right. Tuppence meets Miss Marple and together they follow a path of clues that lead them to the Norfolk village of Farrell St Edmund, where they find a community guarding an array of secrets. Only by getting to the bottom of these secrets do they begin to unravel the truth about the mystery of Aunt Ada's death and Mrs Lancaster's disappearance. (ITV DVD)
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The Miss Marple stories have a different target audience than other famous Agatha Christie series, which is why I'm honestly amazed at the effort to include 1968's By the Pricking of My Thumbs, which was the third of the four Tommy & Tuppence stories. Tommy & Tuppence are characters from the early 1920s who accompanied Christie's work until its end in the 1970s. They are amateur detectives, and in book form one of the main pleasures is to parody the famous detectives of the past with them. Tommy & Tuppence are a couple to behold - they are fun, adorable, and love each other like no other. And on the rare occasion that their cases are made into film or television, are they supposed to share their case with Marple? That's definitely not necessary. Something great could have been made of this. Greta Scacchi isn't completely useless, but the reasons why generations have loved Tommy & Tuppence are really only scant here. Fortunately, the new series Partners in Crime (2015) offers a different approach to Tommy & Tuppence.
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