![]() Curtain sees the reuniting of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings (still played by Hugh Fraser) at Styles, the manor where the two first met in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It only takes a cursory glance at the screenshots I’ve included in this blog to see that Curtain is not a particularly cheery send off for our beloved Belgian detective. Once the episode began, a lot of that enthusiasm and excitement ebbed away. ![]() ![]() Even then, there was the anticipation of Suchet getting to the home stretch of Agatha Christie’s body of work and having only a few episodes left to film. For TFW readers with long memories, you might remember that I rekindled my love for Poirot four years ago when I lived in Sydney and had a lot of downtime to myself. I had a feeling of giddy excitement leading up to watching this final send off. Other actors have played James Bond and Doctors Who in the last quarter century but there has only been one man to play the part of Hercule Poirot. The show and his performances have survived two different production companies and twenty five years of sufficient ratings to warrant bankrolling that next episode. It’s an incredible accomplishment starting back in 1989 with The Adventure of Clapham Cook. ![]() With the airing of Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case on ITV this week, Suchet has performed in all seventy Hercule Poirot novels and short stories as television adaptions. ![]() It’s been a two and a half decade marathon but David Suchet has finally achieved his goal. ![]()
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