![]() ![]() Characters and plots develop at a more leisurely pace, rather like a train ride through the English countryside, but never to the point where one feels the writers were padding the script to fill the time slot. Of course, this is not your more current type of entertainment where the scenes shift constantly to keep up with an audience that has an attention span of 30 seconds. The episodes take liberties with some of Marsh's plots (Troy wasn't in A Man Lay Dead, subplots are added or changed), but overall very well done and worth a watch (or two or three). ![]() At times he had the "Handsome Alleyn" look, but that's about all. I must admit I wasn't thrilled with Simon Williams' performance of Alleyn in the first episode. After seeing Malahide as Alleyn, it's so much easier to read the books because Malahide gives Alleyn a face and voice. Troy and Fox were easy to visualize, in fact apart from Belinda Lang's longer hair and William Simons' lack of a mustache, they are exactly as I pictured them, but Alleyn remained elusive. He's a dapper silhouette, complete with hat and an excellently cut suit, but still a shadowy figure. ![]() Marsh's description of Alleyn was so nebulous- basically tall, dark, thin, and handsome with a fastidious face in one instance or a monkish one in the other. And after watching this series I know why. I discovered her as a teenager, probably around the time this series aired, but never had an inclination to read them again. After watching the eight episodes made with Patrick Malahide, I began re-reading Ngaio Marsh's books. ![]()
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