Review of The ABC Murders

I have only watched the first of 3 parts. The story was not adapted, a new story inspired by the old one was written. That's a very different thing. The new story I think is a good one considered on it's own. If the prior work did not exist, people would like it. Nonetheless the story can well be considered an insult to both Agatha Christie and what many consider her greatest creation, Hercule Poirot. God help me I enjoyed it and was disgusted by it at the same time. This is not a Christie style story. Everything that made it so has been changed. This is NOT a Poirot story. The character here has been re-imagined to the point that it is a very different man, who has led a very different life. Without spoiling it, I'll just say the police reveal in the first episode they have discovered something so shocking so shattering to who Christie's Poirot was that it changes everything. It's a barbaric horrible thing to do and I HATE THE WRITER for doing it. But I will watch the rest like a person trapped in a cycle of cutting their own flesh, unable to stop the self harm, finding relief from their inner pain in destructive way, but in my case thankfully with a clear end in sight. (If any reader is in that literal situation, there is help, seek it out, the pain really can end.)