Television series

And Then There Were None

Name: And Then There Were None
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Released: 2015
Cast: Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Toby Stephens, Aidan Turner

Other titles called And Then There Were None: the 1945 film.

Agatha Christie's masterpiece locked-room mystery, where ten strangers accused of hidden crimes are picked off one by one on an isolated island. Tense, elegantly constructed, and genuinely unpredictable—a three-part miniseries that respects the source material while making it feel urgent and contemporary. For anyone who loves being genuinely wrong about who did it.

TVMaze rating

3.8

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you love a slow-burning whodunit where suspicion curdles between strangers and the tension comes from people rather than gore, and you enjoy an Agatha Christie-style puzzle built on a closed setting.

Skip it if you want brisk action or a quick pace, since this is a patient, talky build where dread matters more than momentum and the early episodes take their time.

What it asks of you: Three hour-long episodes, so it wants a settled evening or two rather than a casual background watch, and it rewards close attention to who says what and when.

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The Fall2013

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