Teresa reviews A Murder Is Announced (2018), episodes 21-24 of “Ms. Ma: Nemesis,” and cheers the appearance of the real Ms. Ma, bestselling novelist. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 1 revolver You’ll recognize the central idea from Announced, but that’s all you’ll get. Quality of episodes: 3½ revolvers Too much plot stuffed into too […]
I’m really thrilled to see this. Kemper Donovan, the host of the All About Agatha podcast, hosted a panel in which Agatha movie and TV adaptations battled it out for the title of Best of All. The event has been released as a podcast episode. Admittedly, I was a bit worried about how Teresa would […]
Teresa Reviews The Mirror Crack’d III (2018) and decided this was the most evil Marina Gregg of all. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 3½ camera tripods Mi-Ye is Margo Bence but the angriest, most conflicted Margo I’ve seen. Quality of episodes: 4½ camera tripods There were spots that were unclear (we need to watch […]
Teresa reviews The Mirror Crack’d II (2018), the second four-episode arc in Ms. Ma: Nemesis, and is curious which way the story is going (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 3 ½ asthma inhalers After the previous changes to Mirror, we’ve suddenly returned to the source material. Quality of episodes: 4 asthma inhalers The tension […]
Teresa Reviews Ms. Ma The Mirror Crack’d I (2018) and realizes that Marina Gregg’s story might take a different turn. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 3 poisoned cocktails It looks like the actress poisoned the woman who caused her miscarriage but did she? Quality of episodes: 4 poisoned cocktails The plot thickens so you’d […]
Teresa reviews Ms. Ma: Nemesis, The Moving Finger (2018) and is looking forward to seeing what happens next. (Ms. Ma: Nemesis, episodes 5-8) (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 4 hangings Poison pen letters and even more poisonous gossip? Agatha wrote the book with The Moving Finger (1942). Quality of episodes: 4 hangings The overall […]
Teresa reviews Ms. Ma: Nemesis I (2018) and was drawn into the story of an accused child murderer escaping an asylum to clear her name. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Agatha adjacent: 4 guns If you’re paying attention, you’ll recognize many classic tropes from Agatha’s writing. Quality of episodes: 4 guns We were sucked in at […]
Teresa Reviews Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel (5 bambole per la luna d’agosto) Fidelity to text: 1 knife Assemble ten people on an island. Let the murders begin. There was one other parallel to the novel. One. Quality of movie: 1½ knives It would help immensely if you spoke […]
Teresa reviews Alone (2007), a Thai movie based on “Elephants Can Remember” that was turned into a psychological horror with conjoined twins. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Fidelity to text: 2 stranglers One twin assumes the identity of the other, recovered memories, and a dog. Two dogs. But more on them later. Quality of movie: 4 […]
Teresa reviews Grandmaster (2012) and found it fast-moving but incoherent Indian version of “The ABC Murders” (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Fidelity to text: 3 stranglers The taunting letters, the loony patsy, and the faked serial killer remain in this Malayalam police procedural. Quality of movie: 3 stranglers Fast-paced and often incoherent with an entire, unclear […]