Anthony Horowitz has done it again: alexisKG reviews MagpieMurders, which delivers a delightful meta mystery to PBS:
was ever going to be as twistily compelling on the screen as it is on the page and in audio, Horowitz had maybe the best chance possible of pulling it off.
If this sounds like the set-up to a disappointing review, it’s not! Having reviewed all six episodes of the Britbox series—which, a bit confusingly, is due to premiere for American audiences on PBS this coming Sunday as part of this October’slineup—I am happy to say that it is extremely good.
The supporting cast, meanwhile, is perhaps even stronger than the core, as the majority are tasked with playing two distinct roles, first as the callous and/or venal fictional characters populating the sleepy English village of Conway’s final Atticus Pünd mystery, and then as the “real” people from Alan’s life he took such mean-spirited glee turning into callous caricatures on the page.
in a second season, it does something completely, unfathomably new. I’m ready, Britbox, to be jarred all over again.Alexis Gunderson is a TV critic and audiobibliophile. She
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