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Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

Streaming on BritBox. A three episode Mini series. Started March 2, 2025.

Inspector Leach probes the brutal murder of an elderly widow in her Gull's Point home. A failed suicide, a false theft charge, an out-of-service hotel lift and a tennis star's love life intersect, culminating in a bizarre mass murder plot.

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31438355...

Parents Guide
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31438355...

Trivia
Burgh Island, South Devon is one of the filming locations. The island is associated with writer Agatha Christie, who often visited and used the location as inspiration for at least two novels: And Then There Were None (1939) and Evil Under the Sun (1941). Previous Christie stories filmed there include: Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) and Evil Under the Sun (2001).

Goofs
Matthew Rhys' detective is shown smoking filter cigarettes which did not become commonplace until the late 1950s, but this is set in the 1930s.

Also a 2007 French movie that can be bought or rented from Amazon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889606/...

I got a free 7 day trail for BritBox tonight and binged the 3 episodes of this. I didnt think it was too bad. Matthew Rhys is the detective that figured everything out. Kind of a locked door mystery.

I noticed that a lot of their series only have 3 or 4 episodes in a season. I noticed one that only had two episodes for a season. Don't think that would work on this side of the pond - we would be tearing down the stations walls.