Q pointed out in episode 4 that the staircase is a really weird one for a house of that size - she described it as being 'in a cupboard' - but it feels much like back stairs rather than a main staircase. Maybe it is the back stairs. I'll have to check on the next episode. I did. It is the back stairs. Why did she go up the back stairs? Ask Marple.
Anyway, it's based on the true case of a woman who was found dead at the bottom of the stairs with evidence that she hadn't just fallen down them (she's Toni Collette, the husband is a variably accented Colin Firth).
Various lawyers, children and step-children take differing views of what's going on, complicated by a French documentary maker recording the events. There's bats in the attic, too, but at this point in time I'm not sure whether that's got anything to do with anything.
I found the episode which puts forward the theory that she was attacked by an owl rather funny. You have to feel for Toni, who has to keep re-enacting her death in various different ways.
Many episodes have an extended single take scene. I'm glad to see these coming back into fashion. Though there's definitely not enough material here to fill its run time. One episode, seven I think it was, seemed to have no significant content whatsoever. So thrilled were we by the season finale that we stopped 10 minutes before the end to watch Gogglebox.
Michael Stuhlbarg is the defence attorney. With Dane DeHaan, Tim Guinee, Sophie Turner, Odessa Young, a disconcertingly blonde Juliette Binoche, Rosemarie DeWitt, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Parker Posey.
Created by Antonio Campos, who also directed six of the eight episodes, and has mixed credits (was one of the producers of Mary Marcy May Marlene).
Annapurna for HBO Max / Sky Atlantic.
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