SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of “Tommy & Tuppence,” now streaming on BritBox. The finale of “Tommy & Tuppence” finds the Agatha Christie detective duo, played by Josh Dylan and Antonia Thomas, on the verge of a new chapter. The BritBox Original series brings the classic characters into the modern day, where Tommy and Tuppence are exes instead of a married couple (as Christie originally wrote).
A decade after dating at university, they bump into each other at a wedding and soon become embroiled in a murder mystery. The two have an exciting will they-won’t they chemistry as they solve cases around London (with the help of Tommy’s Aunt Ada, played by Imelda Staunton), begin their own private detective business and start getting closer. But there’s just one problem — Tuppence is married to a director back in L.A.
The series’ sixth episode sees Tommy and Tuppence solve a cold case surrounding harrowing child murders in the countryside, just as Tuppence at last acknowledges her feelings for Tommy and decides to divorce her husband. In classic rom-com fashion, just as Tuppence bursts through Tommy’s door with the news, she sees him kissing police detective Draper (Callie Cooke). Then, Tuppence’s sister presents them with their biggest mission yet: helping the U.K. government with a major case.
Dylan: Obviously, Agatha Christie is untouchable in so many ways — incomparable rather, because she’s the Queen of Crime and it’s beloved by people. But when I read the scripts I felt like, here’s an opportunity to do something that I don’t think I’ve seen before, which is blending that cozy crime world, that Agatha Christie world, with an opportunity to make this feel really grounded and naturalistic and real. Thomas: Tommy and Tuppence are amateurs anyway, so it lends itself really well to the more modern-day idea of being a sleuth and listening to a podcast and trying to figure something out yourself.
Like we can all relate to that; I love a true crime podcast. And the way that [Christie] wrote those characters was quite modern actually, for the time. Particularly Tuppence being a pretty outspoken, front-footed woman, she was very modern in the way that she behaved.
So that felt like a very easy transfer. Thomas: Josh and I did a lot of meeting up and trying to work on the relationship and find a colloquial shorthand in and amongst the text. I certainly was quite daunted by the scenes where there’s quite a lot of exposition and they’re going through and trying to figure out the crime.
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