SummaryBobby Jones (Will Poulter) and his friend, Lady Frances "Frankie" Derwent (Lucy Boynton) find a dying man while playing golf in this three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's book of the same name from Hugh Laurie (who also had a minor part and directed).
SummaryBobby Jones (Will Poulter) and his friend, Lady Frances "Frankie" Derwent (Lucy Boynton) find a dying man while playing golf in this three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's book of the same name from Hugh Laurie (who also had a minor part and directed).
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? 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.