Sinking into an Agatha Christie adaptation – or a good one – always feels rather delicious. The 1920s costumes! The murder! The twistiest of plot twists!
Good news: those things are all present in abundance in Netflix’s latest take on the crime queen’s oeuvre, and all within the first ten minutes. There’s a party taking place in a grand country estate. Champagne is being poured. Flapper dresses are flapping. And in the morning, diplomat Gerry Wade (Corey Mylchreest) is found dead in his bed.
