Murder Is Easy
BBC | BritBox | Release Date: March 1, 2024
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
DeciderJoel KellerMar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review: Agatha Christie’s Murder Is Easy modernizes an 85-year-old text simply by changing the nationality of its main character, and it makes the story a whole lot less creaky as a result. Read full review
80
iRachael SigeeFeb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: This may be a new take but it’s still Agatha Christie through and through. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonFeb 28, 2024
Season 1 Review: "Murder Is Easy" will be best enjoyed by those with an appreciation for the idiosyncrasies of Christie, for fictional English murder and for pumping new fuel into antique vehicles. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Barbara EllenSep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review: While overall subtly done (a real-life Fitzwilliam would have had it far worse), if anything, it heightens the mystery, adding another dimension of threat. Read full review
60
ColliderMaggie BoccellaFeb 29, 2024
Season 1 Review: Murder Is Easy doesn’t do anything to stand out from the pack, but it doesn’t puff itself up as more than it is: a simple, easy mystery, letting Christie tie up her story in a neat bow as she has so many hundreds of times before. Read full review
60
The TimesCarol MidgleyFeb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: It is more fun when we are dealing with the village characters and a pub that falls deathly silent when Fitz walks in. But things warm up when he tries pork scratchings and finds them disgusting (he's right). I wasn't convinced by the sexual chemistry between Bridget (Morfyyd Clark) and Fitz. Read full review
60
Radio TimesMorgan CormackFeb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: There's nothing more exciting in a whodunnit than being met with a village of people, all hiding their own secrets that we get to find out more about. So it's a slight disappointment we don't get to dig into them all that much more, especially where these meatier themes are involved. Read full review
60
The GuardianRebecca NicholsonFeb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: It works perfectly well, though in the end, this becomes more of a routine whodunnit than it first suggests. Read full review
40
The TelegraphAnita Singh Feb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: But the mundane truth is that this isn’t one of Christie’s top-tier works – her plotting is smart but there is no Marple or Poirot to pep it up. Rather than attempt to add interest by making changes, the BBC should have left this one on the shelf. Read full review
40
The IndependentNick HiltonFeb 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Too bland to excite the violent impulses of the Line of Duty generation, yet insufficiently zippy or playful to stir Christie aficionados. The script is only part of the problem: more striking, perhaps, is the cheapness of the design. Read full review
37
Chicago TribuneNina MetzMar 6, 2024
Season 1 Review: This version of “Murder Is Easy” has collapsed too much. The careful equation devised by Christie doesn’t work anymore. Instead of several suspects for Luke to consider, the story narrows it down to one or two and the mystery loses its snap. His careful process of elimination becomes perfunctory and Jonsson is given little to do but react placidly to the cardboard characters around him. Read full review
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