Review: ‘Murder Is Easy’ review: Murder may be easy, but adapting Agatha Christie isn’t
Agatha Christie’s mysteries work not only because they’re great puzzles (some are even anticlimactic) but because she creates such rich and often faintly ridiculous characters, and then puts them into vivid scenarios that allow for sly social commentary about a certain kind of Britishness. Not enough of that is present in the two-part adaptation of her 1939 novel “Murder Is Easy” on BritBox, which makes key changes that end up stranding everyone — viewer included — in dull circumstances.
In the original, a British policeman named
