It all honestly feels like the kind of twist Agatha could work into one of her mysteries. He’d be instantly rich, and no one need be the wiser that he’d ever seen her again. Therefore, if he successfully poisoned her, he would still be her legal next of kin, not poor clueless Jason. She assumed he was dead, so the two were never officially divorced.
She spent three years in jail for her involvement in a black market ring back in the East End of London, and her husband, Gregory Snow, abandoned her rather than face prison. It’s Christie, in fact, who figures out that Louise is living a double life, and has a past she’s more than a little bit eager to hide. (We’re only halfway through this hour, after all.)īecause it turns out that Louise doesn’t have just the one husband. When asked who did this to her, a groggy Louise slurs that the culprit was her “husband”. Boom, case closed, right? Not quite. If anybody’s going to know a lot about poison, it’s Agatha Christie, after all. She’s also been dangerously drugged, with what our intrepid sleuths deduce is poison. The women eventually learn that Louise had been forcibly dragged off to a sort of nursing home, a place which Agatha describes as where “husband send unruly wives in need of a ‘rest'”. Her new husband claims Louise just likes to go wandering off on her own for no reason without telling anyone, which is the sort of obvious lie that one expects from pulp thrillers. And the two women dig into Louise’s past. There, Frankie meets Agatha, who hires her to find their missing friend. Frankie’s old friend Louise - also a former dispatch girl who used to race around on motorbikes through enemy territory - stands her up for a lunch date at the Savoy hotel. The case of the week is actually surprising complex, involving a near-deadly poisoning and a shocking double life. (Do we think she could maybe come visit in Toronto?)
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On the plus side, Frankie gets the chance to solve a mystery with Agatha Christie herself, which is precisely the sort of story that this show loves to have fun with.Īctress Honeysuckle Weeks, best known to British TV fans as Samantha Stewart from Foyle’s War, is a charming guest star, and if Frankie has to solve crimes with a famous writer, she makes a much better partner than Ernest Hemingway ever did. Instead, Frankie is off on her own for most of the episode, visiting old friends in London for some unidentified reason, while the rest of the Drake Detective Agency is still in Toronto, suffering through the most banal of B and C plots.
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Part of the problem is that “No Friends Like Old Friends” ignores the formula that has made this series so successful in the first place - the women at its center. (And if Game of Throneshas taught us anything, it’s that we can all spot an unfortunate wig at 50 paces.)īut Frankie as a blonde is strange - and it’s not the only thing that seems off about the show’s return.
Presumably, this hairdo change is because star Lauren Lee Smith got tired of dying her natural hair color every year for the show.
Gone are the sleuth’s signature red locks, replaced instead by a very modern blonde bob. And not just Frankie’s hair, though that is one of the most jarring changes. When Frankie Drake Mysteries kicks off its third season, some things feel very different. Whether that will be a good thing or not, we’ll have to wait and see. Frankie Drake Mysteries returns in Season 3 Episode 1, “No Friends Like Old Friends,” an installment that feels fairly different from the series’ first two seasons.
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