![]() ![]() While cut off by bad weather they are reminded of murderous sins they have committed and carefully killed off one by one in the style of the American poem Ten Little Indians. The plot of And Then There Were None (slight spoiler alert) revolves around 10 people invited to an island off the south coast of England by a mysterious host just before the outbreak of the second world war. She continues: “What this does, and the Scandi dramas do, is they go, ‘This is what murder is. In this book you take all that, murder as entertainment, and you turn it on its head ‘this is an abomination, this is the wrath of God’.” ![]() “Those shows are kind of ‘Argh, I’ve been killed with a letter opener to the eye’, it’s the unravelling of the plot and the life is irrelevant. Phelps, who previously wrote the celebrated 2011 adaptation of Great Expectations starring Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone and Gillian Anderson for the BBC, explains: “Whenever we think of Murder She Wrote, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Marple, murder as entertainment – teatime entertainment – isn’t that weird? ![]() ![]() It is “searing” in the same way as Scandinavian dramas such as The Killing and The Bridge are, in contrast to other dramas that use death as an entertaining plot device. Although her scripts contain humour, she says the book, which she had not read before, “profoundly shocked” her and is more “terrifying and brutal” than she expected. ![]()
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