I have grown fond of this series. The 1920s sensibility can so easily come across as dodgy to the modern viewer, and so can some of Agatha Christie's writing. The best way out is to play up the comical ingredients, and this show does so with plenty of elegance and wit. Tommy is just the right kind of dashing and just the right hint of gay. Francesca Annis's Tuppence is just effortless - which is no mean feat, combine as she must the character's and the time period's sense of guile, androgyny, wild fashion and childlike wonder coupled with the budding women's lib. It works! Not a heavy, cathartic sort of fare, but charming and uplifting in its own way. Well done.
Review of Partners in Crime
