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  • BBC
  • Dec 27, 2023
  • BBC
  • Dec 27, 2023
Murder Is Easy

Summary Nigerian attaché Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), who is headed to Scotland Yard to report on several murders in her village. When she is found dead, he sets out to find the killer in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel of the same name. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on ...

  • BBC
  • Dec 27, 2023
  • BBC
  • Dec 27, 2023
Murder Is Easy
Season 1
Season Premiere: Dec 27, 2023
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Nigerian attaché Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), who is headed to Scotland Yard to report on several murders in her village. When she is found dead, he sets out to find the killer in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel of the same name. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on ...

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80
Mar 1, 2024
Agatha Christie’s Murder Is Easy modernizes an 85-year-old text simply by changing the nationality of its main character, and it makes the story a whole lot less creaky as a result.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 28, 2024
"Murder Is Easy" will be best enjoyed by those with an appreciation for the idiosyncrasies of Christie, for fictional English murder and for pumping new fuel into antique vehicles.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 29, 2024
Murder Is Easy doesn’t do anything to stand out from the pack, but it doesn’t puff itself up as more than it is: a simple, easy mystery, letting Christie tie up her story in a neat bow as she has so many hundreds of times before.
By Maggie Boccella FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 13, 2024
There's nothing more exciting in a whodunnit than being met with a village of people, all hiding their own secrets that we get to find out more about. So it's a slight disappointment we don't get to dig into them all that much more, especially where these meatier themes are involved.
By Morgan Cormack FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 13, 2024
It works perfectly well, though in the end, this becomes more of a routine whodunnit than it first suggests.
By Rebecca Nicholson FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 13, 2024
Too bland to excite the violent impulses of the Line of Duty generation, yet insufficiently zippy or playful to stir Christie aficionados. The script is only part of the problem: more striking, perhaps, is the cheapness of the design.
By Nick Hilton FULL REVIEW
37
Mar 6, 2024
This version of “Murder Is Easy” has collapsed too much. The careful equation devised by Christie doesn’t work anymore. Instead of several suspects for Luke to consider, the story narrows it down to one or two and the mystery loses its snap. His careful process of elimination becomes perfunctory and Jonsson is given little to do but react placidly to the cardboard characters around him.
By Nina Metz FULL REVIEW

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