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This just became irritating towards the end, trying to be Marple/Poirot in deduction, but could have cut two episodes out with all the unnecessary verbiage and explanations, there were too many red herrings. Good acting, interesting plot, just too drawn out. Lovely to see Bronson Pinchot acting in something, underused and talented. Also nice to see Mary Wiseman stretch her acting chops, and I'll watch anything with Carlos Esposito. The appearance if Kylie Minogue was also a nice surprise. Really struggled to get through the last two episodes, but being the pedant I am, it had to be done. Not sure if this has legs as a series, but we'll see.

Agatha Christie wrote beautiful, complete characters, there is no need to recraft them. Salome Otterbourne is just one example of how poorly the character has been redeveloped, and contributed to the poor retelling of this story. I dread to think how they'll butcher the next story. While the scenery is lush and the acting solid, it doesn't need to take core elements out that allow for the flow of the story, something that I feel this version does. The loss of Ferguson is sad, as even now his role would have been relevant as anti-establishment. Make the cast as colourblind as you want, as gender fluid as you need, but leave the core of the characters alone.

This was a tedious episode, the acting was fine but the storyline is tired, every Trek iteration has this 'fantasy' episode, and it's tiring, that's 40mins of my life I'm not getting back.