More so since this was the face singing it. To hear the same tune in a Marple film just seven hours later caught me off guard. Having seen Public Enemies a second time earlier that afternoon, I already had Diana Krall's sexy vocals in my head. Interesting note: her husband, Timothy West, played the victim in the first adaptation of this episode. I suppose I wouldn't be so shocked if I actually paid attention to their careers between Britcoms and Marple appearances. Good Lord, is that really Prunella Scales? Again, I can't tell if it's the makeup or nature, but it's jarring to find one's boyhood heroes/heroines at this state. I did notice, of course, that while everyone else gets invasive close-ups, Richard only briefly approaches the camera before turning away quickly, and all of her scenes are kept in the blurrily-lit kitchen. I haven't felt this bad for someone since watching the adaptation of Murder with Mirrors with a post-stroke Bette Davis. This is the last production Miss Brahms filmed before she died of cancer earlier this year. McKenzie is a little closer to the novels, especially in this adaptation. I do miss how McEwan always relished the murders, condemned everyone around her, and laughed when the police had no idea what she was talking about. She's all smiles, like McEwan, but a little more discreet with her manipulations, like Hickson. She's like a bridge between Geraldine McEwan and Joan Hickson. A four-part series in which I take a gander at my favorite on-air program, Agatha Christie's Marple, on Masterpiece Mystery!.

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