Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, Head of the Quebec Police Homicide Department (Alfred Molina) Sisi de Poitiers, a local socialite who was killed during a traditional curling match, arrives in the snow-covered village of Three Pines to investigate the death of a woman named Poitiers. Gamache was sent here as punishment for the undue affection shown to the missing girl’s family (police accused of not committing a crime). But he still approaches the matter with full responsibility: With or without a connection, he must be found guilty. Soon, almost all of Three Pines’ few residents are under suspicion: everyone had their own reasons for hating Sisi.
A chilly cold on the street is a fertile condition for a quiet evening watching a detective drama, and Three Pines doesn’t seem to be pretending to be anything more, no kidding here: a five-time Agatha Christie award winner, centered on Louise Penny, the author of the series on her novels (which is a record) ) and his inspector, Gamache, were given the title “Canadian Poirot”. Penny’s recipe is extremely simple, but no less effective: according to her, she described the village in which she wanted to live, with residents with whom she wanted to be friends, and the main character found one. she herself wants to marry (in fact, the main prototype was not Poirot, but her husband).
There are already 18 books in the Gamache cycle, not counting the thriller State of Terror, which Penny co-wrote with one of her main fans, Hillary Clinton (where the investigator is limited to a small cameo). There are of course a lot of corpses for a single village near the United States border, but who cares: the main thing is that Gamache doesn’t sit idly by (otherwise all that joy wouldn’t have dropped so regularly on The New York Times bestseller list) .
The show’s first season seems to aim for even more simplicity and accessibility: for example, the last two episodes adapt the “Executioner” story, which is not part of the main series and is often written for practical purposes – to help English learners. Therefore, “Three Pines”, perhaps, will not be superfluous in the most outstanding detective circumstances, but it loses some of the subtleties that it lacks for reasons that are not entirely clear: the series’ creator, Emilia di Girolamo, is the Anglo-French version of the Danish-Swedish Bridge It is not in vain that he served as showrunner for the third season of The Tunnel, which is
However, here Alfred Molina comes to the rescue and can melt any snowdrift at a glance – on which the suit of an old, good-natured, but extremely understanding researcher sits like a glove. Yes, and the Three-Pines charm seems to be conveyed with enough care to the screen: you inevitably begin to envy Gamache, who retires in the middle of the book cycle and settles in this little owl-free village. as they seem, but at the same time and exactly as they appear, and they even have their own Lady with a log – Granny the Goose.