Hacker Cinema
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV series · 50 min episodes · 13 seasons
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
2 positive1 neutralfrom 3 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
3 comments on Hacker News
After finishing watching Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes series, I have started watching Poirot. At first it didn't seem as striking to me as Sherlock Holmes(Holmes' and Poirot's character/style is very much different), but after a few episodes, I'm hooked up it, I must say. Highly recommend watching both of them.
For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Poirot
I find it fascinating that they did this series over a span of over 24 years, with the same lead actor (David Suchet, CBE) as Hercule Poirot throughout!
There is a behind the scenes interview with David Suchet reflecting upon the 24 year experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3ITew9Mpw
"And Then There Were None", which is one of Christie's most famous works not featuring Poirot, has been adapted by the BBC recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None_(miniseries).
Sort of surprised they aren't covered by some variation of the "safe harbor" clause in ISP laws. They are not creating the content, they are making existing content created by others available over the Web.
It's sort of like suing Blockbusters because they carry DVDs that do not come with closed captions.
In any event their current captioning needs work. I tried watching "Stone of Destiny", which takes place in Scotland, and these American ears could not understand all it. I tried using the captioning but it had a very peculiar glitch: every so often I would see a rush of captions for the next few minutes of audio. It would vanish, and then I'd hear the audio it was meant for. So I gave up.
I assumed their streaming was pulling the captions from whatever was provided on the corresponding DVD.
I have a heard-of-hearing friend and when we watch DVDs together we almost always turn on captions. However, some TV shows, such as from the BBC some years back (e.g The Poirot series) have no captions. Are the American distributors of these DVDs open to a lawsuit as well? What about my local library, where I got them?