“Chinese Tart” is crazy 
at least it’s not a white dude made up to look “chinese”, like in the A team…
but yeah, the poirot tv series has the vibes of the original agatha christie books. i never can tell if the (upper class) characters whining about being unable to find good help nowadays is christie’s real take on things, or she’s making fun of her own class.
The obviously foreign character of Poirot is definitely used to poke fun at Brits and their
racistinsular attitudesOf course, there’s also the episode where the disappeared Russian servant of a rich old lady is suspected of murdering her and being a Soviet agent. Poirot figures out this can’t be the case because he finds a bunch of Orthodox religious paraphernalia and a picture of Nicholas II in her bedroom and it turns out that she is actually the Good Kind of Russian: an aristocrat who fled after her family lost their holdings to
and is now forced to live under a false name and work as a servant. At the end she gets the old lady’s inheritance and can resume her upper class lifestyle and hopes that someday Russia too can be truly free. Poirot’s only love interest was also an exiled Russian noble who missed living in a mansionthat love interest was also a jewel thief, which is even funnier.
reading these novels (or sherlock holmes) is a bit like being beaten in the face with a churchill
that love interest was also a jewel thief, which is even funnier.
That did make her kinda cool though
reading these novels (or sherlock holmes) is a bit like being beaten in the face with a churchill
Could be worse…
is that lovecraft? :)
Yes. Don’t ask what the cats name is.
Doctor Who also did that in the serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
The BBC is like: yeah, we can spend tons of money on period costumes, but having an actual Asian person? :no:
Chinese tart
i expected macao egg tarts
