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Marple: The Moving Finger
This one was a little different, told almost entirely from the point of view of Jerry Burton, a young man who came to this lovely little village with his sister to enjoy some peace and quiet after a motorbike accident *snorts* Peace and quiet? Not likely!
You know, dead bodies and funerals should not be funny, but when they were burying the THIRD body already, I really had to laugh because it reminded me of that hilarious The Persuaders ep where someone was killing off Brett's relatives. And with quotes like...
How I can take a murder seriously when someone compares the dead girl to the extinct dodo bird? LOL!
And I loved that yet again there was a gay subplot and Miss Marple not only didn't mind, she was actually really sad that the colonel killed himself, that her friend died because of what other people thought of him. It was really sad, especially because he left his lover behind and the man couldn't even mourn him openly... I loved that despite the revelation that the colonel was gay, she still went and put flowers on his grave because for her, nothing changed, he was still her friend.
This was also based on the only Miss Marple book that I read - not that I remembered much about it, it's been years - in Czech it's called "Není kouře bez ohýnku" ("There's no smoke without a fire").
And in this part, I knew two actresses: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwicke in Smallville) and Emilia Fox (Morgause in Merlin).
You know, dead bodies and funerals should not be funny, but when they were burying the THIRD body already, I really had to laugh because it reminded me of that hilarious The Persuaders ep where someone was killing off Brett's relatives. And with quotes like...
Elsie: Yesterday afternoon, we were having tea with Mr. Symmington up in the school room and all the time, Mr. Burton, that poor girl was squashed in that cupboard, dead as a dodo!
How I can take a murder seriously when someone compares the dead girl to the extinct dodo bird? LOL!
And I loved that yet again there was a gay subplot and Miss Marple not only didn't mind, she was actually really sad that the colonel killed himself, that her friend died because of what other people thought of him. It was really sad, especially because he left his lover behind and the man couldn't even mourn him openly... I loved that despite the revelation that the colonel was gay, she still went and put flowers on his grave because for her, nothing changed, he was still her friend.
This was also based on the only Miss Marple book that I read - not that I remembered much about it, it's been years - in Czech it's called "Není kouře bez ohýnku" ("There's no smoke without a fire").
And in this part, I knew two actresses: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwicke in Smallville) and Emilia Fox (Morgause in Merlin).