watching and reading

[mhalachaiswords]

what I'm watching

Not much TV this season, other than my obsessive re-watching of Murder, She Wrote, before Netflix cracks down on vpns. I'm watching Elementary and Supergirl (surprisingly good) and trying to get into the new shows but nothing is striking my fancy as yet. I'm saving Agent Carter to watch in a spree next week when my PVR reaches

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[mhalachaiswords]

nope, I love 99% of the Poirot interpretations.... especially the ones where David Suchet is getting a little older (and I think he got more creative control over the series) and we got to see that more introspective Poirot, more aware of his own mortality. One of my all-round favorite of those eps was Five Little Pigs, just such a beautifully filmed episode and so character-based and a low-lying slow sadness at the loss of the past but also the celebration of the lives lived.

I also love the episodes with Ariande Oliver - she's such a blatant author insert in the books who complains about how terrible her character is and she has no control over him and it's so wonderful. I also love Zoë Wanamaker in all things.

I'm not sure if you're into audiobooks, but David Suchet has narrated several of the Poirot books and they are delightful (I say as an audiobook aficionado - a lot of times Christie's prose works better narrator than on the page). You can find them on Audible if you want.

Thanks for the note about Columbo - I'll try starting on the second season :)

When OUAT is back on Netflix I'll catch up about this season - the show is really not using Robert Carlyle's talents to the fullest, he's just so great :D

[a_phoenixdragon]

Ohh, indeed!! Where all of Poirot's little quirks were brought more to the fore (making him more endearing than ever) and...ohh, I need to see that one! Hubby and I are catching up, as there were a few years we missed Poirot. I don't know if I want to see Final Curtain, though. I don't know if I could handle it...there is a poirot comm here, btw! Seems rather a cute, if quiet, little place!

SHE IS!! OMG, I love her...then again, I adore the actress, so no surprise, lol! She is very obviously Agatha - and while I take issue with Ms Christie's books, I rather loved the woman herself.

Ohh, thank you for that! I will definitely have to look into those! I rather agree with that assessment. May be WHY I found the books hard to read. They are the type that must be read aloud.

:D

I think that is why I'm often angry with the show. RC is an amazing actor and it always irritates me when an actor like that deliberately gets throttled by scripts and directors. But seriously...they kind of amazed me with some of the twists to the storyline - and well...Rumple won. Of course he did (which satisfied my little black heart to no end!)

[mhalachaiswords]

i'm pretty sure I can't watch Curtain; I had a hard enough time reading the book. I did catch the first few minutes (PBS aired it instead of The Big Four and I caught it on PVR until I realized what it was and turned it off) - they brought back the whole crew for that one. I just don't want to say goodbye, ya know?

(I'm not the only one - in that documentary with David Suchet, he asked them if they could film out of order for the last season, and the last episode they filmed wasn't Curtain but Dead Man's Folly, the fete scene, so everything could end on a high note)

Of course Rumple won; he's a consummate survivor. now i definitely need to check out that last ep :) I know they're going to the underworld next (because no one dies in this show) so we'll see what surprises that brings us :)

[mhalachaiswords]

Oh also the audio books read by Hugh Fraser (Hastings) are also wonderful. He has such a calm approach but a good flair for characters.