Finished watching The Moving Finger, which I found to be more enjoyable than the book because of the fresh, young faces of the cast. This episode also has Ken Russell, the film director, appearing as the Reverend. Frances de la Tour plays a supporting role, as she did in Evil Under the Sun, and so she is the third performer (after John Hannah and Zoe Wanamaker) to have been cast as a completely different character in the same author's world--quite disconcerting, because there really are thousands of talented British performers out there and one would think they could have been drawn from instead.

Loved that French country cottage, that imari tea service, and that jade necklace, but I eventually got fidgety. How exciting can letters from a poison pen be?

I was thrown off by the frequent use of colored gels (mainly saturated reds, blues, and greens) and the juxtapositions of reds (dresses, lampshades, roses) against greens (dresses, neckties, bottles). Combined with the sometimes irregular, low-angle, and canted shots, I felt that I was watching Sin City the movie and that this episode was out of place in the entire series.

Miss Marple participates in a group embroidery session here, but she also knits. Unfortunately, she is shown knitting small pieces and with different kinds of yarn in separate sequences spanning only a few days. Did she start out a project, abandon it, start out another, also abandon it, and start out yet another? And not only that: in the entire series the only stitch she seems to know is stockinette. Indeed, in ALL movies featuring knitters, I've seen nothing but stockinette, stockinette, stockinette.

I still love British movies. No one plays basketball.

But, in retrospect, what, no lesbians?