• Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 15, 2026
Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Negative: 2 out of 19

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Jan 17, 2026
    60
    New star Mia McKenna-Bruce makes a charming amateur sleuth in a mishmash mystery, needlessly extended into three parts.
  2. Reviewed by: David Opie
    Jan 15, 2026
    60
    Dial in for an unexpected treat in this lesser-seen Agatha Christie story, which comes to life every time Mia McKenna-Bruce appears to share her observations and a wry quip.
  3. Reviewed by: James Hibbs
    Jan 15, 2026
    60
    It's a passable few hours of entertainment, with a gloss and level of performance above the norm, but it's not a mystery on the level of even the middling Christie adaptations - making the ticking clock metaphor surprisingly apt.
  4. Reviewed by: El Kuiper
    Jan 15, 2026
    60
    Netflix's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials takes a passably entertaining murder mystery and tries to raise its emotional stakes with mixed results.
  5. Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Jan 15, 2026
    60
    If you have neither read the original book nor care about the changes, this is a diverting three-parter. Christie purists may feel differently. The ending is completely new.
  6. Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 14, 2026
    60
    It is a handsome distraction from ugly things happening around the world but I still hanker for a Marple or a Poirot.
  7. Reviewed by: David Caballero
    Jan 14, 2026
    50
    Too slow to be riveting and too needlessly drawn out, it's a run-of-the-mill adaptation of one of Christie's most run-of-the-mill novels, and the strongest proof that not every work from the renowned author warrants a fresh take.
  8. Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jan 15, 2026
    40
    Across three tepid hours, Christie’s killer story is wasted on a series that feels dead on arrival.
  9. Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Jan 15, 2026
    40
    Retro without flair and full of modern concerns about everyone’s emotional wellbeing is a mix that doesn’t work for me.