Rufus Sewell ( Victoria, The Marvellous Mrs. Who wrote the list, and who do these names refer to?” The official synopsis reads: “When a murder investigation is launched into the death of a young woman, a mysterious list of names is discovered in her shoe – prompting an inquiry not only to find the killer, but also to understand the list of names. The drama is not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD.The BBC’s latest Agatha Christie adaptation began in the UK last night.īased on 1961’s The Pale Horse, the new two-part period drama comes from award-winning screenwriter Sarah Phelps ( The ABC Murders, Ordeal By Innocence). The Pale Horse is available on the BBC iPlayer. Not sure if Agatha Christie’s seen that one. However, if you do smoke… just make sure you use an ashtray.Īnd when it came to the revelation, and the person discovering all the ‘how to’ elements of how everything was put together, it reminded me of The Simpsons when Principal Skinner discovered all the blueprints for Bart’s “Buttzilla” balloon of Skinner.
UPDATE Episode 2: has now aired and… weird! I still didn’t have much of an idea about what was going on. See you on the 16th at 10pm and we’ll see if it got any better. Should I have done? Or did I, and I just fell into a coma with this rubbish? Either way, it’s only a two-parter so the pain will be brief… The Pale Horse‘s first part just seemed to deliver a lot of ‘weird for the sake of being weird’ elements, and I didn’t see any horses.
Meanwhile, people on the list are popping off one by one, but when it comes to Mark, there’s a question mark against his name… Why? Oh look, another question mark! And about Mark! There’s a weird bloke coming into Mark’s shop, screaming about how everyone on the list is going to die and “They’re coming for you!” One year later, in London, and a dying woman has written a list of names including Mark’s, and to that end, lots of people are dying all around him, which then makes me wonder what the prospects are for his latest flame, Hermia ( Kaya Scodelario – Crawl). The Pale Horse begins, in the village of Much Deeping, in 1960s Surrey, with antique dealer Mark Easterbrook ( Rufus Sewell)’s dying in mysterious circumstances
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