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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Season 1 Premiere: 2022
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7.7
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
82
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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What it is, is a joy. It seeks out and expertly amplifies opportunities for delight in every scene.
It’s charming. It’s a slyly comic romance as much as it is a yarn of cryptic last words and accumulating corpses. Its amateur detectives are played by Lucy Boynton and Will Poulter. And they are perfect.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? is one of the Queen of Crime’s lighter offerings anyway, but in Laurie’s hands it was a positive soufflé.
It is the relationship between the leads that keeps the thing going, and I’m only sad that Christie didn’t write more mysteries for them to solve.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? may not be particularly innovative or groundbreaking, but it didn't need to be. Instead it's a well-told story with an all-star cast on top form, gloriously lush costumes, set design and visuals and more than enough twists and turns to keep things engaging.
Because Laurie wanted to stay relatively faithful to the story, viewers are going to have to sit through some predictability to get to the witty dialogue and the inevitable reveal of the killer.
But for all that Laurie’s script tries to inject some dynamism, the performances remain flat. Not to mention the total lack of chemistry between Poulter and Boynton, made more conspicuous by the prominence this adaptation places on their fledgling romance.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
7.7
70% Positive
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30% Mixed
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Production Company:
- Agatha Christie Productions
- Mammoth Screen
Initial Release Date: 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
