Murder is Easy on BBC One review: give this silly, self-important take on Christie a miss this Christmas
by Melanie McDonagh
Dec 27, 2023
2 minutes
On the Third Day of Christmas the BBC gives us … one of the least congenial Agatha Christie adaptations I can think of.
I have nothing, obviously, against murder at Christmas, though in Murder is Easy there is something of an embarrassment of riches. It’s the way, yet again, that contemporary preoccupations are foisted onto a period piece where they are simply not at home.
It’s not that the
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