The Big Four (S13E02)

No, just because the Big Four really appear here, Poirot, Hastings, Japp, and Lemon, this episode deserves the highest possible rating. This meeting is simply worth it, especially when you have watched the series and you know that this is truly the last meeting of this quartet. The story disappointed me a little in its finale, but Poirot played a really big game here, just like his opponent. (27/05/2015)

No, Hercule should not run away from and escape explosions, because it always seems so ridiculously unbelievable. The effort to bring more rawness into the pedantic world is not particularly refreshing in this form. As convoluted as a Nordic detective story, darker thematicization of the Nazi threat, squinting at current trends in "socio-political manipulators"... but in the end, the best part is when old friends meet years later. In the 13th series, it embodies the "search", but what is eventually found is not dazzling enough to deprive one of a penchant for proven Poirot nostalgia. [70%] (25/11/2013)

Murder after murder, a mysterious villainous organization and a nostalgic reunion between old friends, of whom (apart from Poirot, of course) we most enjoy the Inspect... I mean Deputy Commissioner Japp. The story is one of the slightly weaker ones (when I read the book once upon a time, it seemed to me more suitable for Sherlock Holmes than for Hercule Poirot), and at times it took me a while to figure out who was being talked about and who was who, but I can't give it less than four stars. (31/05/2014)