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just sat through it and was very dissapointed. wont be tuning in for second part.

I thought everyone knew that bbc dont make decent tv anymore.

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Settling error?

Not seen it yet but previous versions of Tommy and Tuppence have been poor. One gets the impression that Agatha Christie gave them the plots she thought weren't good enough for Poirot or Miss Marple.

akabula     27 Jul 15 00:54 
Settling error?



Technical advisor - bigmart  ?

I gave up after 20 minutes but I noticed that the village scenes were shot in Turville.

The OTT campness of Walliams hardly adds belief to the storyline....on the other Tuppy needs a jolly good tupping especially in that 50's gear, straight skirts, stockings etc....

It was certainly hard work, and I'm not sure I'll be tuning in next week. Was Walliams camp, or merely wooden? Tommy was supposed to be clumsy and henpecked, but Walliams was so uneven, you got the impression he approached each scene afresh, with no regard to what came before or after.

Tommy and Tuppence seemed an unlikely couple -- no chemistry between them, and large height and age differences; I'd have added their expensive lifestyle with no visible means of support, until it was explained that Uncle Spy Boss was paying the school fees.

And didn't Jane Finn stuff something into the bee box, and if so, why hasn't it been found yet?

I think Tuppence found the photo of a guy in uniform, maybe Jane's friend who got shot on train, with an address on the back,

Huffington post review ;

The lighting is glorious, the production values are beyond high, hats sit at a jaunty angle and the tea cups are all perfectly tinkly… so why does this much-hyped Agatha Christie adaptation 'Partners in Crime' feel so misplaced on a Sunday evening, with a lightness, okay I mean shallowness, more appropriate for a CBBC slot?

David Walliams and Jessica Raine star as Tommy and Tuppence, a 1920's married pair of accidental crime-solvers brought here into 1952 and an accidental espionage plot that somehow seems more enticing than Tommy's bee-keeping business.

The plot seemed almost spoof-like in its complexity, at one point a magnifying glass inspection of a photo led them to an opera singer - no, me neither - but somehow, when it was David Suchet as Poirot or Joan Hickson as Miss Marple unfathoming such riddles, it never seemed quite so nonsensical.

At risk of suffering comparison with those weightier predecessors, I can understand the decision to opt for this frothier, tip-the-wink fare, but the pedigree extras - James Fleet ('The Vicar of Dibley'), Clarke Peters (Lester from 'The Wire' no less!) - only serve the make the central pair more absurd, and the chemistry between them less than zero.

Sadly, because he's exec produced this, is obviously a huge Christie fan, AND because he's obviously a lovely fellow, much of the blame for this misfire must lie at David Walliams' door. A man of many talents, undoubtedly, he seems to realise they don't stretch to straight drama, and so leans back on the broad, camp approach that's worked for him so well in everything from 'Little Britain' to the 'BGT' panel.

However, here, it means that, try as she might to pick up the Christie baton and run with it, Jessica Raine's every scene is sabotaged by the risk of Walliams pursing his lip, and turning into the Prime Minister's jealous secretary, or some such. As a massive Christie fan myself, it's a sad conclusion to make that, this time around, Tuppence has been sorely short-changed.

I think Tuppence found the photo (in bee box) of a guy in uniform, maybe Jane's friend who got shot on train, with an address on the back,

I thought the photo fell out of Jane's book.

Jessica Raine's every scene is sabotaged by ... the running gag about where she learned her spy skills (girl guides; John Buchan; whatever).

Agree completely with Big Issue about Tuppy's eye-catching clothing, and fingers crossed there will be an opportunity to see her in her full 50s sexy underwear   glory, or maybe to go undercover as a 1950s nurse.

^ Fingers crossed (tissues on standby)

Just realised Jessica Raine (Tupppy) was in Fortitude, the Mother of the Kid that was sent mad by the Ice Age virus.

In 1950'S parlance, she really is delightfully scrummy don't you think?

It was shockingly bad. The beeb have done some decent stuff recently, the lottery syndicate episodes, Happy Valley, and the thing set in the car show room. But this was the direst of the dire

It was shockingly bad. The beeb have done some decent stuff recently, the lottery syndicate episodes, Happy Valley, and the thing set in the car show room. But this was the direst of the dire

Last weeks episode was a total bag of  sh1te. Bad acting, poor script, and typical of  the lazy Sunday night "family viewing with a diversity angle"
that we've been fed recently.
Tonight's episode is far more true to life though as Tuppence tries to get a 2 shilling bet at 25/1on Bolton HT Blackpool FT bet for the 1953 cup final,
with the illegal bookies, only to be told she can only have a shilling at 20/1 and a shilling at 10/1. When it wins she is barred for life.

Tonight's was rubbish as well, even though the bees did come back into it.