Agatha Christie, She Watched

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about incompetent reporters, incompetent investigators, louche playwrights and Bridgette Bardot lookalikes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Petits meurtres en famille,” the French television adaptation of “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:51 Larosiere and Lampion in a different universe

5:33 Nord province, the Hooterville of France?

6:40 How wealthy was the family? Number of servants.

12:34 The servants who matter in the story

13:40 The family members who matter in the story

19:21 The introduction of Inez

21:37 Simon Lee’s 70th birthday and Dr. Eloi

22:58 Madeline the villain you’ll love to hate

26:05 Jewishness and French support for Hitler in 1939

29:00 The aging of the long-distance runner

30:20 The second love triangle

32:39 The theme of missing and abusive fathers

34:24 Murder in ChristieWorld

38:15 The problem of Fake Inez’s happy ending

42:06 The importance of casting

43:03 Louise’s love story

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about incompetent reporters, incompetent investigators, louche playwrights and Bridgette Bardot lookalikes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Jeux de glaces,” the French television adaptation of “They Do It With Mirrors” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:45 Previous adaptations

4:33 The one major change from previous version (major spoiler here!)

5:12 About the three seasons

7:44 Finally getting into the episode

12:41 Meeting Alice Avril

14:13 A rant about Marlene and Avril

16:16 The first murder

20:06 Mr. American fix-it man

23:07 Denigrating the Mildred Strete character

23:41 Carrie Louise

26:10 Laurence is a TERRIBLE investigator

27:46 Alice is a TERRIBLE investigator

30:19 What about the poisoned chocolates?

33:05 Marlene set up to look like an idiot; secretaries in cinema

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about seductive schoolgirls, coup d-tats, secret daughters, and renegade nuns. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Le chat et les souris,” the French television adaptation of “Cat Among the Pigeons” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about silk stockings, drunken detectives, feuding families, and burning bums. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Les meurtes ABC,” the French television adaptation of “The ABC Murders” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

1:12 What is “The Little Murders of Agatha Christie?”

2:19 About the first season

7:32 Charming bits of male nudity

8:53 Starting at the beginning of the episode

11:54 Alexander Bonaparte Cust character

13:46 The second murder

15:19 The police commissioner calls in Duval

18:49 Meet the Calvez family

21:00 The murder investigation

22:56 Duval receives an ABC letter

25:36 Larosiere back on the case

26:43 Larosiere gathers everyone for The Poirot

35:22 Agatha Christie as police procedural

36:05 Larosiere’s cute mannerisms

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about drunken chefs, cold and hot news anchors, ‘60s-style sexism, and dumping dumping one-night stands. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Zero Hour” (L'Heure zero), the French television adaptation of “Towards Zero” by “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:54 Three versions of “Towards Zero”

4:47 An overview of the TV series

9:12 Alice tries to break into TV

12:44 Maxim the hot chef

14:35 Bedding and dumping lovers

16:11 Marlene’s revenge plot

20:49 They’re French, and Bill loses the thread

21:23 More murders and a pointless red herring

23:09 Surprisingly funny / Christie as police procedural

25:30 The problem of the drowning victim

26:59 Why Teresa chose this episode

28:43 Why the 1970s didn’t start in 1970; Bill explains who Gary Numan was.

30:18 Bill wonders why didn’t they do a 1940s version?

31:54 Fadeout

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about subdivided chateaus, dolls stuffed up chimneys, drunken priests, and child murders. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” the 2005 French movie.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:06 Driving down a sunny dirt road deep in France to visit Aunt Ida

11:29 Changes from the novel

20:50 Where most of the movie takes place

25:00 Two filmed version of “Pricking”

32:03 Tommy and Tuppence in France

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about drones, ghosts, secret cameras, and Sherlock Holmes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “And Then There Were None,” the 2017 Japanese adaptation.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

1:02 previous versions we’ve seen

7:26 connection to Sherlock Holmes

11:50 how they modernized the story

15:48 the judge’s goals

18:36 the judge’s mistakes

23:02 Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne

25:06 a plea to release the movie on streaming.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abandoned children, poisonous inhalers, Missing Miss Marple, and wooden-faced police officers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Great Actress Murder Case,” the 2018 Japanese adaptation of “The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:55 The story itself and a rage for the adopted kids

9:51 And the kids came out reasonably successful

11:42 How Japanese language and culture is expressed

15:19 The Gene Tierney connection

20:30 Another change was to set this up as a police procedural

22:21 About the Lady of Shallott and the title

23:30 A description of the main detective

27:00 Where to find the movie

28:23 Which of the four versions is the best?

32:42 What we’re watching next

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about snooping butlers, thieving in-laws, plumping noodles, and pumpkin cubes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Murder of Kuroido,” the 2018 Fuji TV adaptation of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about horrible mothers, infantile children, bus tours and pratfalls. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Promise of Death,” the 2020 Japanese TV adaptation of “Appointment with Death.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about repressed memories, seaside homes, shipboard romances, and Jacobean revenge tragedies. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Sleeping Murder,” the 2005 episode from the Japanese anime “Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about adventurous aviators, chocolate addicts, Babylonian spells, and ducks. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Mystery of End House,” the 2004 episode from the Japanese anime “Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple.”

Apologies here for the varying sound quality and the microphone thumps. I upped the audibility setting on Voicemeeter and it caused the sound to drop out. I trimmed out as much of the bad audio as I could, but you’ll still hear imperfections.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about risque subtitles, manuscript theft, secret agents, and tax evasion. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the Midnight Murders” the 2020 movie and third of a series starring Christie as a fictional character.

Apologies here for the varying sound quality and the microphone thumps. Later, I discovered that upping the audibility setting on Voicemeeter caused the sound to drop out. I trimmed out as much of the bad audio as I could, but you’ll still hear imperfections.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about oppressed  women, exploited nations, stolen artifacts, and hot male archaeologists.  Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the  Curse of Ishtar” the 2019 movie giving an alternate history of  Christie’s meeting and courtship with her second husband, Max Mallowan.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abusive fathers, cross-dressing lawyers, unauthorized fiction, and designing golf courses. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the Truth of Murder” the 2018 movie giving an alternate history of Christie’s 11-day disappearance.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about we’re talking about blues singers, hidden couples, Hollywood scandals and disfiguring faces. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2022 movie “Death on the Nile,” starring Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about  emasculating mothers, feckless fathers, bad seed children, and the Bomb.  Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2018 movie  “Ordeal by Innocence,” starring Bill Nighy.
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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about  traveling salesmen, boarding houses with benefits, murder parties and dangerous backgammon. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2018 movie “The ABC Murders,” starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about industrial fog, police brutality, old women and young lovers, and a bloodstained pussycat. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2016 movie “The Witness for the Prosecution,” starring Toby Jones and Kim Cattrall.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about deconstructing doctors, disobedient daughters, and dying detectives. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “Curtain,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about master criminals, conniving sisters, gullible young men, and a cute pug. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “The Labours of Hercules,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about international conspiracies, ambitious actors, sinister Chinamen, and fake funerals. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “The Big Four,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about psychiatrists, pianists, French au pairs and the Seven Sisters. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “Elephants Can Remember,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about time, traitors, betrayers, and lots and lots of cats. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2011 Poirot episode “The Clocks,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about wandering witches, flaming raisins, suspicious topiary, and a lot of drownings. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2010 Poirot episode “Hallowe’en Party,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about peacocking painters, randy roommates, meddling mystery writers, and sinister ice cream. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Third Girl,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about hormonal schoolgirls, hunky gardeners, coup d’tats, and javelin tossing. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Cat Among the Pigeons,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about feral playwrights, inquiring reporters, and deadly sugar hammers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about gas explosions, missing explorers, greed, and surly Irishmen. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “Taken at the Flood,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about oppressed servants, drunken hunks, and nuns. Lots of nuns. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “After the Funeral,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about a sinister collector of rare artifacts, naughty pictures, and the game of bridge. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “Cards on the Table,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about poor relations who become wealthy, cheating husbands and wives, powerful American businessmen and a train that is not the Orient Express. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “The Mystery of the Blue Train,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about cheating husbands, free-spirited artists, inheritance hopes and inadequate men. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “The Hollow,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about cheating husbands, free-spirited artists, inheritance hopes and huge, huge hands. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2004 Poirot episode “The Hollow,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! 

This week, we’re talking about cheating artists, conniving models, and flashbacks and more flashbacks. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2003 "Poirot" episode “Five Little Pigs,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Affair-hungry artists! Femme fatales on the prowl! Poisonings and hangings! We talk about it all, and why this was an amazing adaptation.

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2003 made-for-British-TV movie “Sparkling Cyanide,” which mixed Christie with “House of Cards.” Updated for the post-9/11 era, it features a vulgar football club owner; a rising governmental minister having an affair with the tycoon's wife; his star striker dating the tycoon's daughter; and a secret government agency spying on them for the prime minister! 

With its pro-surveillance state politics, it could have been a propaganda movie from the Ministry of Information in “1984.” In her spoiler-heavy review, Teresa rants about the movie’s big plot holes, it’s “CSI”-like tech that China wishes it has, and why you should still watch it. 

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If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet Poirot “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002). Teresa talks about the differences between the novel and the movie, what the movie missed, how Mrs. Leidner was based on a real person (whose first husband was definitely NOT a spy for Germany), and other missed opportunities. 

Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel.

https://peschelpress.com/

If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the Kenneth Branaugh “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) starring Sir Kenny, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Michelle Pfeiffer. Teresa talks about how Branaugh misplays Poirot and why the movie gets worse on repeated viewings.

Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel.

https://peschelpress.com/

If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet “Murder on the Orient Express” (2010) starring Toby Jones, Jessica Chastain, Barbara Hershey and Hugh Bonneville. We delve into issues of faith, redemption, and why Poirot was so grumpy throughout.

Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel.

https://peschelpress.com/

If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! For our first episode, the sound is a bit rough, but future episodes are better, honest! Teresa Peschel has been reviewing Agatha Christie movies for two years at our Peschel Press site, so creating a podcast talking to her about them is only a natural! We start off her look at Agatha Christie adaptations with “Murder on the Orient Express,” the 2001 made-for-television version starring Alfred Molina, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, and Peter Strauss.

Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel.

https://peschelpress.com/

If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come  visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (not Longmire country, but the  small town outside of Dover)! Teresa and I will be at the Peschel Press  booth all day. For details, visit our website.