Suchet’s wise and warm performance was the through line in a series of varying quality. He may have been vain and imperious, but on screen he was far from the “egocentric little creep” (Christie’s words) who wore on his own creator. Suchet and the “Poirot” writers beefed him up over the years, giving him layers of wit and understated emotion. If you’re not, “Ray Donovan” is on at the same time.Ĭhristie’s character, protagonist of more than 30 novels and many short stories spanning the two world wars, was a bit thin on the page - he was no Holmes or Maigret - and Mr. But why be unkind? If you’re part of the “Poirot” audience, you can soak unashamed in the pleasures of these episodes, carefully calibrated to usher out the detective and the man who has played him for 25 years, David Suchet, with the proper mix of sentiment and reserve. The last season of “Poirot,” beginning Sunday night on PBS (and on the streaming service ), delivers pretty much the same cozy-mystery package as the first, back in 1989. You could deride this consistency as formulaic, and you’d be right. We have reached our destination, intact and on time. In the final five 90-minute episodes of “Agatha Christie’s Poirot,” the denouement - the long scene in which the dapper Belgian detective Hercule Poirot explains it all to his puzzled audience, including us - arrives reliably somewhere between 22 and 17 minutes from the end. You could almost set your clock by it, if you still had to set a clock.
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