Mark is informed by police that his name is on this list - but with a question mark. All of the victims have a tendril of a connection to the peak-British-named town of Much Deeping, where a trio of witches read tea leaves, make herbal concoctions for mild maladies, and quite possibly hex people to death upon request and payment. A balding woman is discovered dead in a London street with a hastily scrawled list of names in her shoe almost every single person on it has died in sudden but plausible circumstances. “Pale Horse” is definitely one of the most woo-woo of Christie’s detective stories with an unusually significant dash of body horror added in, but this TV adaptation doubles down on it with the Wiccan-adjacent atmospherics. on Amazon Prime starting March 13, this is the third Agatha Christie adaptation originally done for the BBC by executive producer Sarah Phelps she previously served as EP on 2015’s “And Then There Were None” and 2018’s “The ABC Murders.” (More recently, she was the showrunner on the gloriously creepy “Dublin Murders” on Starz.) But ultimately, this back-and-forth switch between these settings and scenarios, motives and motivations comes at the expense of crafting a plausible, earned ending to the core mystery.Īiring as two episodes in the U.S. The costumes and production design are great, a tricky mix of expensive class signifiers and rustic vintage elements without being twee. It leans in hard to the contrast between slick, successful Carnaby Street-curious Mark and the visceral pagan folk horror of the English countryside. This is both the good and the bad of “The Pale Horse” on Amazon Prime Video. And in our post-”Midsommar” world, everyone knows that’s when things are going to start getting real. Thanks to his profound narcissism and arrogance - I mean, it’s earned, you guys have seen Sewell in a vintage suit, right? I know you have, because I picked the photo for this review - Mark is essentially unfazed by his first wife and his mistress dying until the wicker man and corn dollies start appearing around him. Maisel’ Flash Forwards Created a New Costume Challenge
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