Oh that looks good, Frybabe! Here is Dickensian, I had not heard of it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4531728/I really like Dickens, I'll take a look, thanks.
Now in Poirot 12, the series is uneven, but Suchet remains super, more irascible but still super. There was one episode in 11 about being on a dig and she wrote quite a lot about archaeological digs, both in her autobiography Come, Tell Me How You Live and in her mysteries. And sometimes her perspective is non PC. She supposedly could write anywhere (Virginia Woolf take notice), on a battered old table with dirty objects all over it, a train, wherever. But Legend is Legend. Anyway that one was really well filmed, and apparently in film making the art is what matters.
I haven't read any of her novels in years. But I do like her short stories, ever so clever, and actually quite timely, human nature and all that. It's interesting, too, how people perceive Poirot, this or that person says he looks like a penguin, or makes fun of him, and they always mispronounce his name. That's an interesting little thing she puts in there and she does the same with Miss Marple, you'd never know how clever that little old lady was, either, would you? Appearances can be deceiving.
I had read that in that Mesopotamian one Suchet, much padded for the part, actually fainted once in the heat. Certainly he looks extremely hot and uncomfortable.
Hate to come to the end, really. They've been wonderful diversions and entertainment. There was only the one I thought the casting was WAY off, supposed to be a woman of incomparable beauty whose beauty itself was dangerous. We had just come from a previous episode with THE most gorgeous women in it and this woman in
this one...REALLY? Beautiful? Not in any way shape or form. "Attractive" would have pushed it. Strange.
