Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about drunken chefs, cold and hot news anchors, ‘60s-style sexism, and dumping dumping one-night stands. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Zero Hour” (L'Heure zero), the French television adaptation of “Towards Zero” by “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Three versions of “Towards Zero”
4:47 An overview of the TV series
9:12 Alice tries to break into TV
12:44 Maxim the hot chef
14:35 Bedding and dumping lovers
16:11 Marlene’s revenge plot
20:49 They’re French, and Bill loses the thread
21:23 More murders and a pointless red herring
23:09 Surprisingly funny / Christie as police procedural
25:30 The problem of the drowning victim
26:59 Why Teresa chose this episode
28:43 Why the 1970s didn’t start in 1970; Bill explains who Gary Numan was.
30:18 Bill wonders why didn’t they do a 1940s version?
31:54 Fadeout
