Agatha Christie is one of those authoresses, that for me remains well known though unread, her fictional characters are similarly well recognisable, but I am totally unfamiliar with the authors own description.
I continue to content myself with the various depictions, hitherto on the big screen but now lately on the box.
I had skipped the ITV television series with, David Suchet, as the eponymous Belgium sleuth, but of late I have been catching up with lost time, and going through all of the episodes.
I am discovering just what I have been missing all this while, and altogether I find it most entertaining, I have no way of knowing whether the episodes, bare any relation whatsoever to the written stories.
But to me that doesn't matter at all, what I get is the sense of place and time, with every facet of clothes and appearances, the housing and decor, the streets and surroundings.
The characters of Poirot, Hastings, Miss Lemon, and Chief Inspector Japp, and the perfect characterisations from all of the actors, makes each episode a joy to behold.
Something that I find particularly satisfying is the timescale, of each episode being encapsulated within an hour. This time constraint is crucial because they, have to be written and choreographed perfectly. And to my mind they are with absolutely, nothing whatsoever surplus to requirements, which is more than I can say for other television profferings.
Normally I find myself really non the wiser, in watching an episode as to who, may or not be the guilty party, but for possibly the first time I felt an inkling, within this episode.
I actually found myself have a questioning, thought about a totally unlikely character, through to roughly three quarters of the way, I found myself expressing my thoughts regarding the same person.
I fully confess to being like Hastings and Japp, about the cases particular perambulations, but nonetheless my well hunch was accurate. Which I found a particularly satisfying ending to another exemplary episode.
I continue to content myself with the various depictions, hitherto on the big screen but now lately on the box.
I had skipped the ITV television series with, David Suchet, as the eponymous Belgium sleuth, but of late I have been catching up with lost time, and going through all of the episodes.
I am discovering just what I have been missing all this while, and altogether I find it most entertaining, I have no way of knowing whether the episodes, bare any relation whatsoever to the written stories.
But to me that doesn't matter at all, what I get is the sense of place and time, with every facet of clothes and appearances, the housing and decor, the streets and surroundings.
The characters of Poirot, Hastings, Miss Lemon, and Chief Inspector Japp, and the perfect characterisations from all of the actors, makes each episode a joy to behold.
Something that I find particularly satisfying is the timescale, of each episode being encapsulated within an hour. This time constraint is crucial because they, have to be written and choreographed perfectly. And to my mind they are with absolutely, nothing whatsoever surplus to requirements, which is more than I can say for other television profferings.
Normally I find myself really non the wiser, in watching an episode as to who, may or not be the guilty party, but for possibly the first time I felt an inkling, within this episode.
I actually found myself have a questioning, thought about a totally unlikely character, through to roughly three quarters of the way, I found myself expressing my thoughts regarding the same person.
I fully confess to being like Hastings and Japp, about the cases particular perambulations, but nonetheless my well hunch was accurate. Which I found a particularly satisfying ending to another exemplary episode.