Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep39 “Jeux de glaces” (2013) Review

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