This Partners in Crime script is so slow, tedious and forced in every way - it is painful. It is hard to believe this level of drivel of the BBC. The dialogue is neither the way people speak now nor how they spoke then and the character of Tommy, while he should be a slightly diffident Englishman of the period, is so backward he seems to have got a serious case of Asperger's. There isn't anything much better to say about Jessica Raine's Tuppence. She is supposed to be a bit zany and charming, not completely off her head and as graceless as a baboon in a miniature shop. She is not attractive as a person, and manages no appealing qualities, coming across as too grating and out of place with her surroundings however stylish her hats. In any case, the two leads have absolutely NO chemistry between them as they bumble through scene after scene and one wonders how they ever might have married or if they did, how they manage to stay that way. I normally love period pieces like this and will cut them quite a bit of slack if they have some wit about them. But this out of the way piece is actually embarrassing to watch and Agatha Christie, who wrote wonderful stories that invited you to suspend disbelief for a time with great style is, I fear, with episode 3, turning once again in her grave.
Review of Partners in Crime
