I havent enjoyed anything on the bbc for a long time, until I found this! Its great! David Walliams is hilarious even when hes trying to be serious!
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To each their own. It's always good to find something you like.
It wasn't my cup o' tea though. I saw the entirety of the first story, but didn't bother to start the second, mainly because I really didn't find an appalling miscast David Walliams to be amusing at all. And I'm now rather annoyed, in principle, that the limited resources of the BBC were wasted on an adaptation that he proposed and produced as a vanity project for himself when that will have been at the expense of other things. It would have made much more sense to have started the Tommy and Tuppence stories again when the characters were much younger, and before they married (as per Christie). That would have provided the facility to develop both their relationship much better and to facilitate a longer term possibility (aka Poirot).
Completely agree. It's so annoying because it could have been so good...
shareAs much as I am a big fun of Agatha Christie, I have to say that the first story is a huge disappointment, and newcomers might just skip the second after watching the first.
shareit's awful. the characters of Thomas and Tuppence have been completely changed, they are nothing like they are in Christie's stories, they are really annoying.
shareI really enjoy the series...I have given up series trying to match written material. You should know by now books rarely match film.
shareI want to like this a lot and there are certainly glimmers of hope but my biggest aggravation is the characterizations. Plots, settings, costumes, directing, all okay to great. Characterizations? No.
Tuppence would never bite her lips and quiver in a cave, Tommy isn't stupid. I see what they're trying to do here but the reason they're even making a Tommy/Tuppence show is because of the friggin characters and this is a Tommy/Tuppence show in name only.
Again completely agree. The characters are the story, but they have changed the characters, and there is no chemistry between them. It's like Tommy is a complete 'nincompoop' (I've never even used that word before) and Tuppence is constantly nagging or badgering him, or others to get information.
Originally they had to be very charming and charismatic, and they were a strong partnership. And both were much smarter.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I haven't read any of the source material, so was unconcerned with any differences in characterisation, etc.
I wanted to like this very much as I loved the original series and the books and there were some good stuff about it, but, it's not really Tommy and Tuppence. There was no chemistry between them and David Walliams just wasn't playing Tommy as he should be. I would like to see another series, but, I'm afraid they'll have to alter it quite alot
sharefirst, I'm not British, haven't read the books, haven't seen previous adaptations, and haven't seen David Williams in anything since Little Britain ages ago. So, I kinda like it! Acting is decent, it's funny and well produced.
no, it's not high-art, but it's decent television.
I'd agree with you.
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