Though she haunts Mark at seemingly every moment he’s not awake, the aging socialite has already taken in a new young wife, Hermia ( Kaya Scodelario), who appears to have a more violent temperament hidden beneath her cold, pristine exterior. Set in 1960s London, The Pale Horse follows the stoic Mark Easterbrook ( Rufus Sewell), a rich antique dealer whose wife Delphine ( Georgina Campbell) tragically died a year prior. To adapt the story’s complex web of intriguingly dark characters, Sarah Phelps ( EastEnders) innovates the material through clever addition and subtraction, while maintaining the harrowing spirit of Christie’s pen. Composed of just two hour-long episodes, The Pale Horse is a loose adaptation of the 1961 detective novel by Agatha Christie, one of her final works. The dreary insistence of death permeates every fiber of The Pale Horse, a new mystery miniseries from BBC arriving on Amazon Prime Video this Friday the 13th, if you dare. Amazon’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery keeps the author’s innate spirit for intrigue.
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