Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse (Amazon) — Review
Amazon delivers a delightfully dark and twisted mystery told in two parts for its Prime subscribers. A man is haunted by the deaths of two women he’s connected to (first his wife and then his mistress) as he works to unravel the mysteries surrounding their sudden demise. Is he being tormented by a trio of witches or something even more sinister?
Amazon Studios continues its development run of classic mysteries from the late Agatha Christie with The Pale Horse. The film is divided into two “episodes” with each running just under one hour. For the casual fan of Christie’s work, this one is a bit aside of the normal formula as the central character is not a quirky sleuth. Instead, The Pale Horse centers around a wealthy man in London who who finds himself at the center of a death investigation.
Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle) plays Mark Easterbrook, a man who lost his wife just shot time prior after she visited a strange trio of fortune tellers in a town nestled in the quiet English countryside. His wife’s accidental death put him on a downward personal spiral that included a quick remarriage to a woman he doesn’t love and secret life as a habitual adulterer.
While Easterbrook easily wears an exterior of wealth and success, he’s shallow and bankrupt on the inside. He continues to be haunted by…
