Senhora Ma, Nêmesis (2018)

butchered source material + a lot of nonsense

This show starts up fine, but very quickly goes downhill at a rapid pace. The characters are unlogical in their actions (like fugitive that doesn't care too much about leaving fingerprints, being seen in the broad daylight or even dealing with other police investigations as an amateur detective and gaining fame out of it - ridiculous!) and seems very artifical in their choices and behaviour.

Absurds are multiplying with each episode, with my favourite one being the scene when a woman commits suicide by taking too much pills - despite the fact that it did happen MOMENTS ago, neither her loving husband, nor the protagonist, who needs the woman badly as a vital witness, tries to make her vomit, etc. They just chit-chat with her till she dies!

If scenes like that wasn't idiotic enough, we have a crazy doppelganger of the main protagonist! The doppelganger is sooo irritating in her rudeness and senseless actions, that even the protagonist seems to loose her determination to find her daughter's killer and just play as doppelganger says... out of boredom, I guess.

You can check my reaction for episode 31 (in Episode Guide section of the show), for the worst thing the scenario offers in terms of logic of the crime. It's just too much if you care a bit about human psyche or logical assumptions.

But what is absolutely ther worst for me is how they buthered the source material - they used at least 3 of A. Christie novels and each of the them is scrippted and filmed in a slang-bang manner. The whole drama makes no space for the viewer here to actually try to solve any of the cases of Christie's novels. Actually, these mysteries feels like a homework that protagonist does because... somebody had to, I guess. They are not a pleasure to watch, they have no good tempo and they definately do not invite viewers to use their intellect. Very, very dissapointing. I cannot help but to think that the writer was very bored with the novels and just tried to get his job done without any shade of love for the source material. Especially "A Murder is Announced" feels like a not funny parody of the actual book, but the other mysteries aren't much better. Absolutely the worst adaptation of Christie's stories that I've seen so far.

I do not recommend this show to anyone.

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