THE PALE HORSE Miniseries: More “Midsommar” Than “Midsomer Murders”

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse, though not quite a detective story, seems designed to test the genre’s rules, and also my patience. This is the fifth heavily revised Christie adaptation produced by the BBC and written by Sarah Phelps, the screenwriter who recently engineered Dublin Murders and who’s been reliably churning out one to two miniseries a year since 2014.

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