What do you get when you cross a mystery period drama whodunnit and Anna Maxwell-Martin? Spoiler: Your next must-watch.
Maxwell-Martin is easily one of our favourite British actors on screen right now and while we think we've gone through most of her back catalogue, we've just discovered one of her forgotten by superb crime dramas that is well worth watching this week.
It's an Agatha Christie adaptation and so you can expect plenty of twists, tensions and an ending you won't see coming. Here's what to know about And Then There Were None.
What is And Then There Were None about?
And Then There Were None is based on the 1939 Agatha Christie novel of the same name. The book is the best-selling mystery novel of all time, with over 100million copies sold and yet it's actually pretty easy to avoid spoilers as to how the novel, and subsequent show, ends.
The TV show is three episodes long and is set in 1939. Eight strangers arrive on the mysterious 'Soldier Island' off the coast of Devon, where they have been invited to a hotel by a "Mr and Mrs Owen. However, when they arrive the owners are nowhere to be found and instead the caretakers Thomas and Ethel Rogers are the ones hosting them. Maxwell-Martin plays the role of Ethel Rogers.
At dinner time the guests sit down, only to hear a gramophone go off and an anonymous voice accuses each of the guests of having committed a murder. Soon, the guests mysteriously die one by one....
On Rotten Tomatoes the show has a score of 86 per cent and The Daily Telegraph gave it four out of five stars.
Who stars in the cast of And Then There Were None?
Starring alongside Anna Maxwell-Martin is a truly impressive cast with some of the best British talent.
Here's who you can also expect to see:
- Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard, an Irish mercenary charged with murdering 21 African men.
- Charles Dance as Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, a judge charged with sentencing an innocent man to death.
- Sam Neill as General John Gordon MacArthur, a general from the army charged with murdering his wife's lover.
- Noah Taylor as Ethel's husband Thomas Rogers, a butler who is charged with murdering his former employer.
- Toby Stephens as Doctor Edward George Armstrong, a surgeon who is charged with killing a patient as a result of being drunk while doing surgery.
- Miranda Richardson as Emily Caroline Brent, a religious woman accused of causing her maid to commit suicide.
- Douglas Booth as Anthony James Marston, a socialite who is charged with killing two children as a result of his reckless driving.
- Maeve Dermody as Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a former governess who is accused of letting the child in her care drown.
Where can I watch And Then There None?
All three episodes of And Then There Were None are available of BBC iPlayer now.
