Certainly the darkest and the greatest direction the series has ever had.
It reminds me very much of Murder on the Orient Express in terms of tone. When in Switzerland, in the snow, you feel cold. Thee hotel has a very dark atmosphere that makes it seem like an unpleasant place. The colours are colourless dark and grey, foreboding. Wilson really utilizes Poirot's sense of guilt at the death of Lucinda through his direction. This episode is very dark and very fitting for the penultimate episode.
What an achievement !Īndy Wilson's direction is sublime. This now means that we can safely say David Suchet has filmed every story Agatha Christie wrote about Poirot. The short story The Lemesurier Inheritance is added, which is the only other story not to be filmed. The adaption works really well, the plot appears to have little faults and is a gives us a thoroughly entertaining 90 minutes. "The Erymanthian Boar" is the central story here, but the plots of "The Augean Stables," "The Stymphalean Birds," "The Girdle of Hippolyta" and "The Capture of Cerberus" are added as subplots. Guy Andrews had a herculean task ahead of him when adapting this collection of 12 intertwined short stories, and he does a magnificent job. Poirot must work out which one of the guests is the killer and unmask them before they kill again. His quest takes him to The Hotel Olympos in Switzerland, which happens to be the hideout of the deadly Marascaud. A depressed Poirot is encouraged back to hiss life of detection by the plea of a young and heart broken chauffeur, Ted Williams (Tom Austen), who wants the great sleuth to find his missing love Nita. When Poirot fails to capture the murderer and art thief Marascaud, a young girl is killed. The penultimate episode of Poirot, which was broadcast on 6th November 2013, was adapted by Guy Andrews, directed by Andy Wilson and produced by David Boulter.
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