When the series begins, Mark has remarried and his new wife, Hermia (Kayla Scodelario), who dutifully plays along with the expectations of an upper-class housewife in 1960s London. Sewell stars as Mark Easterbrook, a wealthy antique dealer whose wife, Delphine (Georgina Campbell) took her own life, presumably after receiving some disconcerting news from a trio of psychics (believed to be witches) in a small village outside London. More: Dispatches From Elsewhere Review: Jason Segel Takes Audiences On A Weird Trip Though it is a period piece with themes that nevertheless resonate as strongly (if not stronger) today than when the series takes place, the story itself relies less on the tried-and-true methods of deduction, opting to create an atmosphere of uncertainty for all its characters, one that flirts with the supernatural, before snapping the audience back into reality. Though the team behind these adaptations has had a good thing going, giving each the slightest tweak, so that the mystery is either solved differently or, in the case of the at-once-historical-and-contemporary themes of fascism in The ABC Murders, updating them to comment on the present day, The Pale Horse takes a surprisingly different approach.
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