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- 1. Rare Jan 16, 2024
- An impossible, locked-room murder on a luxury ocean liner; Imogene Scott is the only viable suspect.
- 2. Sordid Jan 16, 2024
- When Rufus interrogates each suspect, he discovers that they are all lying about something.
- 3. Troublesome Jan 23, 2024
- Interpol seizes control of the investigation; Rufus and Imogene investigate the Colliers in secret.
Imogene Scott and Rufus Cotesworth team up to solve a murder mystery in this lighthearted show. Watch the trailer and see the cast and creators of Death and Other Details on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Jan 16, 2024 · A lavish whodunit about a murder on a cruise ship and a detective's past. The series is fast-paced and complex, but also confusing and uneven, with too many characters and clues.
Jan 16, 2024 · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Death And Other Details’ On Hulu, Where An Old Detective And A Young Woman Solve A Murder On A Cruise Ship. By Joel Keller @ joelkeller. Published Jan. 16, 2024, 1:45 p ...
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Read critics' reviews of the Hulu series Death and Other Details, a whodunnit comedy with Violett Beane and Mandy Patinkin. See the ratings, trailers, cast and watchlist options.
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- January 16, 2024
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- Mandy Patinkin has a whale of a time solving murders at sea
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By Leila Latif
Updated: Jan 17, 2024 5:01 pm
Posted: Jan 17, 2024 4:47 pm
Death and Other Details wears its love of Agatha Christie on its sleeve. A mysterious death in luxurious circumstances, a morally dubious cast of suspects, and a genius detective tasked with unlocking the truth – hallmarks of the author’s work all cruising through the Mediterranean on a lavish ocean liner in this new Hulu series. But one bothersome trait of recent Christie homages and adaptations is thankfully absent: Their lack of wit. Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot movies may take the author too seriously, and Gal Gadot’s line reading of “Enough Champagne to fill the Nile!” was only amusing because of what a terrible actress she is, but Death And Other Details is unironically a hoot.
It doesn’t take a sleuth of Rufus’ caliber to guess that he and the brilliant, bob-sporting Imogene are destined to team up after a fellow passenger is found dead – especially not after he declares “You’ll never succeed with just one pair of eyes. That’s why I always work with an assistant.” Nonetheless, Death and Other Details plays with the murder mystery form in interesting ways, inserting characters directly into each other’s recollections of events to emphasize their unreliable narration and raise questions about what’s presumed from another character’s version of events. The dialogue skewers the heavy-handed scripting of many of its peers, with Rufus dropping in assessments like “He had a wrap sheet longer than an overwritten metaphor.”
The show clearly doesn’t have quite the budget of a Knives Out mystery, but the visual effects being used to create the sky and sea on the deck of the boat are charmingly janky. The corrupt tycoons, unscrupulous lawyers, TikTok influencers, and inexplicably dog-collared priest making up the list of suspects feel like clichés pulled from an updated game of Clue – and I mean that as a compliment. In another nod to Christie, class division on this voyage is as entrenched as it was in Titanic, with the upper deck reserved for stiff conversations and tuxedos, while in the ship's bowels, the working class have a whale of a time chugging cheap booze and getting handsy on the dance floor.
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig in Knives Out)
Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh in Murder on The Orient Express)
John Luther (Idris Elba in Luther)
Jackson Healy and Holland March (Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys)
Charlie Cale (Nataha Lyonne in Poker Face)
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While so many Agatha Christie-influenced murder-mysteries get bogged down in the macabre, Death And Other Details remembers that these stories should be a blast. Mandy Patinkin and his recruited assistant Imogene (Violett Bean) are utterly charming, and the show is a hoot, even if the crimes themselves aren't particularly engaging.
A Hulu series that pays homage to Agatha Christie with Mandy Patinkin as a genius detective solving murders on a cruise ship. The show is a hoot, but the crimes are not particularly engaging, according to IGN's review.
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Jan 15, 2024 · Brian Tallerico pans the new Hulu show starring Mandy Patinkin as a detective on a cruise ship, calling it a \"long movie\" that wastes potential and repeats ideas. He praises Patinkin's performance but criticizes the writing, the characters, and the pacing.
Jan 12, 2024 · Death and Other Details is a generic title for a derivative whodunit.The Hulu drama, premiering Jan. 16, borrows its cruise-ship setting from Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and its ...
