I Take It Back

On February 11, THC gave a favorable review to Monsieur Spade after viewing four of the six episodes.  We just watched the final episode tonight and what a miserable way to end the series after a such a strong start.  There were a couple of plot points early in the episode which seemed very manipulative and out of character with what we'd seen previously, but it was the last big scene which was an absolute disaster, introducing a completely new character into a Hercules Poirot setting, full of exposition with poorly written dialogue, and making little sense.  It was as though the screenwriters got tired and rather than work their way through to some resolution they just decided to give up and phone it in.  I've rarely watched anything with such a drastic fall off in quality at the end, and Ms THC concurs with this verdict.