"Ruth Rendell Mysteries" Vanity Dies Hard: Part 3 (TV Episode 1994) Poster

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Vanity Dies Hard: Part 3
Prismark1013 October 2021
Alice becomes convinced that her husband Andrew was the one having an affair with Nesta. She does not believe him when Andrew tells her that he disliked Nesta.

Alice also thinks that she is being poisoned by Andrew. Her health is suffering.

Out of desperation, she goes to Dr Blunden for help.

This was such an anti-climax to a poor story. In effect the episode became one long confession.

It was really hard to care for any of the characters. The casting was not too great and unfortunately the late Mark Frankel was underwhelming.
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2/10
Three hours wasted.
frieda-9236615 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Again, I am disappointed in a Rendell mystery. This is another one where the 3-episode yawner ends in suicide. He should have put himself out of our misery in the first 30 minutes and ended it there. "Vanity Dies Hard" starts well with a relationship between two women and jealousy over the man one is marrying. A fairly typical plot line. From there, it disintegrates into weird suspicions, possible poisonings, implied affairs of the heart, and doctors running to and fro. There is no rising tension, no great protagonist to root for, no murder that we are sure of, only musings of a rich woman and her pouting husband. Sound interesting? No? Then you would be correct. Find something better to do.
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