After her wartime friend goes missing in London, Frankie must work with Agatha Christie to uncover the reason behind the disappearance.After her wartime friend goes missing in London, Frankie must work with Agatha Christie to uncover the reason behind the disappearance.After her wartime friend goes missing in London, Frankie must work with Agatha Christie to uncover the reason behind the disappearance.
Taylor Adams
- Enemy Agent
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- TriviaAgatha Christie tells Frankie that if she ever goes missing she wants Frankie to find her. The real life Agatha Christie went missing for ten days in 1926. She was found in Yorkshire under a pseudonym that included the last name of her husband's mistress. She had no recollection of leaving or what happened over the ten days.
- GoofsFrankie Drake Mysteries is set in the 1920s, however at 5:31 minutes the location of Westminster, London, England is shown in one stock image that contains the Houses Of Parliament showing Big Ben, and includes the Thames River and Westminster Bridge and Portcullis House.
Portcullis House did not exist in 1920s London, and Portcullis House (Bridge Street London SW1A 2LW England) opened in February 2001. Until 1994 St. Stephen's Club and St. Stephen's Chambers and Palace Chambers were all on the corner site, and those buildings were demolished to permit the building of the new deep level platforms for the Westminster Underground Railway Station that opened on 22nd December 1999 for the Jubilee Line Extension to the London Underground.
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Written by Robert Carli
Featured review
Keep going, Frankie Drake!
I agree in general with all the other reviewers (up to date!). Although I find that I'm not really interested in why Frankie is in the UK. Does it matter? Another mild clash with other comments is over her hairstyle: I agree that the style really doesn't match our current (2020ish) aesthetics, but, come on, this is set a hundred years ago! Some production researcher has perhaps put dozens/hundreds of hours into researching hairstyle variations in 1920/30s Toronto, and we know such styles change abruptly, without notice and often. Having got these mild gripes about reviews out of the way, this was a great story. It allowed us to see back into Frankie's wartime experience, rescued her friend and kept us anchored in Toronto with some research requests and a (fairly silly third) storyline about plumbing leaks. It also indicated that Frankie's wartime CO had subsequently been knighted, leaving the way open for him to return in future episodes, with the ethical and emotional conflicts between the two being obvious. But this was a team effort. (Apart from the director, producer, cinematographer, makeup artist, etc, etc...!) Keeping her end up as ever was Lauren Lee Smith, of course. Honeysuckle Weeks was the other part of what was, for this episode, clearly a team. She glows in any part she attempts (as does her sister Perdita - there must be something in families!). Her portrayal of the development of Sam Stewart's character in Foyle's War deserves lasting honour. But the biggest flag given to this episode is for avoiding the catastrophe of the regrettable North American showrunner "Oh, we gotta have an episode in Inglund!" impulse. Probably because that is an American (USA) impulse, not Canadian at all. So the Hollywood ignorance that infected such excrescences as "Bones:The Yanks in the UK" did not reach this production. The actors (at least the main ones) are Canadian, not American, and the actors and production team have a Canadian background, not USA. So my closing is "Hurrah again for Lauren Lee Smith, and hurrah for Honeysuckle Weeks'!
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- akicork
- Jun 6, 2021
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