Truthfully, they’d us at “Mandy Patinkin is doing a riff on Poirot”: That’s one of many massive takeaways, in spite of everything, from the trailer launched immediately for Hulu’s new collection Death And Other Details, which premieres on the streaming service on January 16. All of the hallmarks of a basic Agatha Christie homicide thriller are on show within the promo for the brand new present: An enormous boat filled with very suspicious homicide suspects; a loathsome sufferer simply begging for a fast, mysterious impalin’; and, after all, Patinkin as world-renowned detective Rufus Coteworth, taking part in mentor to Violett Beane’s apprentice/suspect Imogene.
Created by Stumptown vets Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams, Demise And Different Particulars appears to be like to be very intentionally making an attempt to scratch that Knives Out itch that’s been constructing again up once more since Glass Onion got here out final 12 months, pairing an older detective with a younger helper who’s additionally intimately wrapped up within the thriller. (On this case, as a result of Beane’s Imogene broke into the sufferer’s room for a little bit of vengeful property harm simply earlier than he was killed, implicating her closely, however inaccurately, within the homicide.)
Like we’re stated, although, you just about had us at Patinkin; given his penchant for attention-grabbing oddball decisions and affecting speech-making, its truly form of shocking that, give or take a stint on Felony Minds, Patinkin has by no means tackled this sort of position earlier than. (We’re already imagining him doing a low-key, barely self-effacing tackle the basic parlor scene, and we will guarantee you that Imaginary Mandy Patinkin is completely killing it for the audiences in our mind.) Along with Patinkin and Beane, the collection additionally stars Linda Edmon, Jayne Atkinson, Lauren Patten, David Marshall Grant, and several other different potential “J’accuse!” recipients.
