Recently added a British drama, adapted from Agatha Christie**'s "Why Didn't They Ask Evans").
This drama is a very typical whodunit-type suspense drama, with slight changes to the original work, but overall it is faithful to the original work, and it is a relatively interesting work for audiences who like this kind of traditional crime-solving drama.
It is worth mentioning that the director of this play is Hugh Laurie, who is very familiar to everyone, and he also plays an important role in it.
Grandma's ** is actually a lot of film and television, but in comparison, the story of this play is not so famous.
The story revolves around the pastor's son, Bobby.
Bobby stumbled upon a man who had fallen off a cliff, and before he died, he said only one sentence, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" ”(why didn’t they ask evans?)
After that, a lot of strange things happened to Bobby. Dr. Thomas, who had discovered the deceased with him that day, had hanged himself, and Bobby had been poisoned.
So, Bobby and his friend, Frankie, a rich lady, decide to find out the mystery together.
There are two kinds of experience of this kind of story: knowing the mystery and not knowing the mystery.
For Grandma's most popular stories, almost all viewers watched the drama when they knew the mystery, so the whole experience was to follow the mystery to find the details.
And if a story like this show is not so famous, the audience is likely to watch it without knowing anything, and follow the details to solve the mystery, and the focus of the entire ** experience is to find the mystery.
But this drama can't be regarded as relying on decryption, but more on the interaction between the male and female protagonists to support the whole drama.
There are three episodes in total, which add up to less than three hours, and enough stories are crammed into the story. However, compared to the original book, the supporting characters occupy a very limited space, which is not enough to show various characters, and most of the story revolves around the two protagonists. Therefore, the progress of the relationship between the male and female protagonists is more like the core than suspenseful reasoning.
Therefore, the disadvantage of this show is that the audience may be excited to follow the clues when watching the first 90% of the story, but when the final mystery is revealed, they can't help but think, "That's it? It can't be said that the story of this show is not complex enough, but the relationship between the clues and the mystery is really a bit weak, so the reasoning is a weakness.
However, the decryption process of the male and female protagonists is actually quite interesting, which is the advantage of this play.
In general, this drama can be seen as a light-hearted romantic light comedy with suspense, rather than a serious detective drama, which is still worth watching.