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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about incompetent reporters, incompetent investigators, louche playwrights and Bridgette Bardot lookalikes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Jeux de glaces,” the French television adaptation of “They Do It With Mirrors” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Previous adaptations
4:33 The one major change from previous version (major spoiler here!)
5:12 About the three seasons
7:44 Finally getting into the episode
12:41 Meeting Alice Avril
14:13 A rant about Marlene and Avril
16:16 The first murder
20:06 Mr. American fix-it man
23:07 Denigrating the Mildred Strete character
23:41 Carrie Louise
26:10 Laurence is a TERRIBLE investigator
27:46 Alice is a TERRIBLE investigator
30:19 What about the poisoned chocolates?
33:05 Marlene set up to look like an idiot; secretaries in cinema
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Published 09/15/23
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Published 09/11/23