Tags: Agatha Christie, murder mystery, Netflix
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a British miniseries based on the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. Created and written by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Chris Sweeney, the miniseries stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Iain Glen, Martin Freeman, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Oops, British TV did it again! Bastardizing a perfectly good mystery novel by Agatha Christie is their modus operandi. It's getting tiresome. It is an adaptation but must they butcher the characters beyond recognition? I could tolerate just one episode out of 3. I don't know how the series ended.
- First, there is NO Lady Caterham, the mother of Bundle. She was already deceased in the first book with the same characters, The Secret of Chimneys. In the Netflix 3 part mini series, she is alive and well and it was Lord Caterham who died. Helena Bonham Carter playing the mother of Bundle looks like a grocery cart lady. I am not kidding.
- Netflix's Bundle is an emotional train wreck, the complete opposite of the novel's. Bundle is a lively character full of enthusiasm and ideas in solving the murders and just like her friends is not sulking and crying over their dead friends because there are murderers to apprehend and no time to spare.
- Scotland Yard Superintendent Battle is a no nonsense law officer who is big framed and tall, built like an armoire. Here he is a short puny playful character, almost like a clown.
