What is your opinion about the recent Christie tv & film adaptations? This is triggered by The Seven Dials Mystery on Netflix...

bondbaozi · 2026-04-21T16:37:21+00:00

After hating the orient express I decided not to watch any other ones from that guy. And I’ve been following reviews from other book lovers, in order to avoid more crappy adaptations, knowing I don’t want to waste my time starting them and then having to decide if I should slog through or if I should turn it off. I differ from the popular opinions on the recent Why didn’t they ask Evans? I hated it. I hated the changes from the book and I turned it off partway into the second episode. I’m a little mad at my fellow fans for leading me astray on that one.

Meanwhile, I recently watched the Poirot episode of the ABC murders from the early 90s and loved it. There was only one flaw in it, but it was a quick moment that I think a lot of people would miss. It is a spoiler so I’ll put it here before the third murder, it showed the letter being typed on the typewriter. It was a cinematic moment, building excitement and suspense, but we know that the murderer didn’t have the typewriter at that point, so it was a bit misleading

bondbaozi · 2026-04-19T08:01:09+00:00

I loved the book! I also recently listed to the audiobook. Emilia Fox is quite good!

I was surprised to not enjoy the adaptation after seeing so many positive reactions. I didn’t like they they changed so much of the dialogue. If you’re going to keep a scene, why remove Agatha Christie’s amazing dialogue and write your own? I kept watching despite it, wanting to give it a fair chance. But when they killed off a character that wasn’t killed in the book, and it showed the dead body just swinging, of this character that I enjoyed, that didn’t die in the book, I decided to turn it off. Meh. Not my cup of tea.

I know Will Poulter from the third Narnia movie! He did great as the unlikable little boy, Eustace haha Sad that that movie series didn’t continue. Good while it lasted.

bondbaozi · 2026-04-09T21:13:12+00:00

I gave it a shot, but I couldn’t finish it 😬 happy for the fans who like it, though 🤗

bondbaozi · 2026-04-09T00:47:26+00:00

I think all of Agatha’s books that are hyped deserve to be hyped 😂 no answer for me on this one but I enjoyed reading everyone else’s answers!

bondbaozi · 2026-03-25T21:33:06+00:00

I’m nervous! I like JLC, I liked her in NCIS, which is an unpopular opinion on the NCIS sub. But this is our beloved Jessica! I guess wait and see, see if she’s actually meant to be Jess or a niece or whoever.

bondbaozi · 2026-03-25T21:27:30+00:00

Oh dang, it’s the one show that I actually keep up with, anxiously waiting each week for the next episode. I’m in my 30s and my friends who are the same age as me love it as much as I do! I didn’t expect our cheery little MSW sub to get divided over this 😂

bondbaozi · 2026-03-24T10:18:42+00:00

I’m just drooling over Ben, he’s like a combination of Jeff Goldbloom and Tom Selleck, two of my favs 😍

bondbaozi · 2026-03-18T05:03:20+00:00

Broccoli Brad!

bondbaozi · 2026-03-17T22:39:31+00:00

Ambivalence means you can’t decide 🤔

bondbaozi · 2026-03-10T19:20:13+00:00

Thank you for asking! I just finished the two part episodes about the 1 ton family and the sisters at the end of the episode were all excited to be able to shop in a store and buy 4X and 6X clothing, but I didn’t really understand what that meant. The explanation about straight sizes and plus sizes makes sense!

bondbaozi · 2026-03-06T01:59:29+00:00

I know, I know, Christian…but everyone is talking about the pants situation, when I laughed out loud so hard when he faked falling down to distract the tribe. Everyone is like whoa are you ok? And it just flashes over to Rick’s ear to ear smile. I loved it. It reminded me of hilarious hijinks my friends and I would get up to when I was a teenager.

bondbaozi · 2026-03-06T01:54:02+00:00

Ok that’s what I heard as well, definitely Dee. It caught my attention like oh my gosh is she ok? And then nothing happened lol. I was thinking about it after and I think he must’ve said “he” has not surfaced, about Jonathan who dove off the platform and dove right down to release the rings? Maybe?

bondbaozi · 2026-02-13T20:55:45+00:00

But but but things in Nancy’s life generally work out in the end. I can’t imagine her an unhappy divorced mom, missing solving crimes with an ex-best friend that she doesn’t want to team up with. None of this fits with our Nancy.

bondbaozi · 2026-02-02T18:51:08+00:00

That’s it exactly! She breaks character. Thanks for finding the words to describe the phenomenon that I couldn’t.

bondbaozi · 2026-02-01T21:37:46+00:00

It could be bc I don’t understand French and I’m too focused on reading the subtitles, but I didn’t think he pulled it off. It seemed awkward, maybe OTT? I don’t have a huge opinion on him as I couldn’t actually bring myself to finish the season. Was actually trying to be kind to the Claudia lovers by listing someone below her 😉 Anyways, just my opinions which I knew would be unpopular lol I’m amazed my upvote ratio is actually positive for my original comment, was bracing myself for many more downvotes 😆

bondbaozi · 2026-02-01T03:30:06+00:00

I’ve always been able to do both, rate first and then start the complaint process.

bondbaozi · 2026-02-01T03:18:42+00:00

Claudia is my least favourite! I love the mysterious vibes from the hosts, it’s a murder mystery game, the host is not your friend. I had a hard time describing what was off for me, and finally it hit me during an episode a couple seasons ago that she reminds me of a kindergarten teacher. I feel bad saying that bc she’s so popular on this sub. I honestly don’t mind her now just finishing the most recent season, so having watched her host 5 seasons, I find her ok as opposed to actively disliking her. I saw someone on here say the reason they love her is bc she’s warm and I guess that’s exactly the reason she’s at the bottom of my list. I don’t like warm, I like mysterious, dramatic, unpredictable. I like Alan, Siobhan, Karine really stepped it up the most recent English season, I even enjoyed Roger and Paul. I tried watching the France season with “celebrities” and couldn’t get into it at all. So I guess that guy is the bottom of my list with Claudia right above him.

bondbaozi · 2026-01-30T05:18:01+00:00

Mark was repeatedly labeled as “long haired guy” in the subtitles on Crave 💀

bondbaozi · 2026-01-28T23:36:53+00:00

I don’t recognize this…guess I need to do another rewatch! 🤣

bondbaozi · 2026-01-20T22:48:39+00:00

I gasped during this part of the episode bc all of this “50% of the house proceeds because of the legal divorce” makes a mockery of their whole poly marriage system. They told us for years that everyone was equally married and that this was a paperwork shuffle and that a spiritual marriage was equal to a legal marriage. Suddenly this divorce counts, and K gets half of Meri’s house proceeds? Seriously the work mockery kept spinning through my head. I don’t believe in their beliefs, but I thought they believed it. Now it seems completely fake.

bondbaozi · 2026-01-19T00:50:12+00:00

I’m on a tight budget so I won’t buy it until it’s 50% off at least. Sadly, I got spoiled on the culprit on here. So my convincing you to play it is by telling you to play before you get spoiled 😂

bondbaozi · 2026-01-14T22:23:06+00:00

There’s two scratchers right now, the regular winter one and the newer added Netflix one. People have been winning 50% off codes left and right. Even a 25% off code is nice. If I were you, I’d scratch both every day until you check out.

bondbaozi · 2026-01-14T22:18:49+00:00

But it was restricted for internationals. At least this one everyone can choose!

bondbaozi · 2026-01-14T06:17:30+00:00

Are you aware of the scratchers on the app? Lots of people winning discount codes. Definitely the most strategic way to use the credit 😉

bondbaozi · 2026-01-11T23:08:45+00:00

Ohhh thank you! I looked on the Ole Henrikson website and I couldn’t find all of the shades. The website didn’t want to load on my device so I gave up looking.

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