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The Pale Horse

  • 29-01-2020 11:40pm
    #1
    JP Liz V1
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    BBC One’s Agatha Christie adaptation The Pale Horse will premiere on Sunday February 9th at 9pm.

    The Pale Horse follows Mark Easterbrook, who, after a mysterious list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, begins an investigation into how and why his name came to be there. He is drawn to The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumoured witches in the tiny village of Much Deeping. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using the dark arts alone, but as the bodies mount up Mark is certain there has to be a rational explanation. And who could possibly want him dead?

    The two-part drama, which is based on the Agatha Christie novel and was adapted for television by Sarah Phelps, is produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited, with Amazon Prime Video on-board as the U.S. co-producer, and stars Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Poppy Gilbert, Madeleine Bowyer, Ellen Robertson, Sarah Woodward, Georgina Campbell, Claire Skinner, Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke.

    https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2020/01/bbc-one-sets-premiere-date-the-pale-horse/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7fGhHzRGG4
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  • #2
    Slydice
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    Jeez.. seems I'm gonna be thinking about the man in the high castle whenever I see Rufus Sewell for a while.


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    Slydice wrote: »
    Jeez.. seems I'm gonna be thinking about the man in the high castle whenever I see Rufus Sewell for a while.

    Indeed, and he was excellent in that.


  • #4
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Slydice wrote: »
    Jeez.. seems I'm gonna be thinking about the man in the high castle whenever I see Rufus Sewell for a while.

    I'm going to tell myself this is one of the alt-worlds.

    Loved his performance as John Smith so will give this a look.


  • #5
    brian_t
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    If you watched this on BBC One Northern Ireland then the next episodes will be on BBC Two NI from next Sunday.


  • #6
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Took me a while to get into this at the start but it picked up as it went on. I'll give the next ep a look.

    Watching this made me think Rufus Sewell would make a good James Bond. He's got the right look, and he's shown he can play a character with an edge. Think he'd be a quality Bond villain as well.


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  • #7
    Slydice
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    1: Real mysteryious feel to this. My suspicion is that
    some sort of poison is involved. I don't think he's had anything to do with these new murders but he does act awful suspicious as if he's done something. His new wife is a candidate for the killer too. Not sure where the fortune tellers fit in.
    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I'm going to tell myself this is one of the alt-worlds.

    Loved his performance as John Smith so will give this a look.
    Definitely feels the same .. just in a different universe.
    brian_t wrote: »
    If you watched this on BBC One Northern Ireland then the next episodes will be on BBC Two NI from next Sunday.

    Wiki says it's just gonna be a 2 part series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_Horse#TV
    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    Watching this made me think Rufus Sewell would make a good James Bond. He's got the right look, and he's shown he can play a character with an edge. Think he'd be a quality Bond villain as well.
    I found that too. The black suit had me thinking something more dark-ops than Bond would get up to. Rufus Sewell definitely has a look about him!


  • #8
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Watched the final part last night. Thought it was decent. I mainly watched for Rufus Sewell though. Seems a lot of people found the ending confusing, and it turns out it was very different to Christie's novel. My take on the final scenes, possibly wrong, is that:
    it was a dream sequence. Mark had asked the 'witches' to make sure that he was free of his nightmares. We see at the end that he will continue to have them, and he also has the double anxiety that he will eventually succumb to whatever poison he was already given.


  • #9
    Slydice
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    Finished! That was good!

    Really feels like the Rufus Sewell Multiverse!
    Especially as he turned out the murderer.

    I just
    knew it had to be poison. The hair falling out just stuck that for me. After that though, I was really starting to think the fortune tellers were part of the murdering group.

    Rufus Sewell really did good but I also thought the second wife Hermia (Kaya Scodelario who was Teresa in all the Maze Runner films) was great in her role too! Surprised I didn't recognise her! What a transformation!


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