Death Note, Persuasion, Uglies, The Woman in the Window, The Silence, The Last Days of American Crime, The Kissing Booth; Netflix surpassed from 'seven' into the 'several' failed adaptations long ago. However, this time around, the giant N has taken things seven notches higher by riding the coattails of Agatha Christie's famous The Seven Dials Mystery. Following the success of the Knives Out and Murder Mystery franchise, Netflix gathered BAFTA's rising star Mia McKenna-Bruce, more than a few million dollars, and a stellar supporting cast to drop a three-part series.

Not shying away from its source material, as clear from the title, the story unfolds in 1925, where a grand house in the United Kingdom becomes a host for the most powerful and filthy rich of the country; a perfect recipe for a thrilling murder mystery one would think, but is it?

Netflix dropped Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on January 15, opting for a three-episode approach. With every episode shying from being an hour long, the Netflix mystery has abundant time to unpack, cook, and serve, but it follows Bundle as she unsuccessfully tries to navigate the blunder of bodies falling left and right. With the first episode itself consisting of two deaths, and the follow-up episodes entailing a whodunnit scenario with all suspects in one house, the series truly tries to rope you in.

Mia McKenna-Bruce plays Bundle, who wears the same shoes as Enola Holmes, but where Millie Bobby Brown is set to wear them for the third time, McKenna-Bruce seems to have worn them off in the first attempt. Notably, the series has earned a middling 62% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.

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With how the series has not broken into Netflix's Top 10 charts, it seems that all seven dials have ushered viewers to press the skip button.

Breath-taking European architecture, stellar actors, cinematic appeal, a quirky sharp-tongued lead, all helmed by an iconic Agatha Christie mystery, Agatha Christie's Seven Dials had it all. Despite these very supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ingredients, the answer to the series' failure lies in the title itself. Netflix's latest mystery takes seven dials too long to get to the thick of the things. 

Apart from the awkward pacing, Agatha Christie's Seven Dials uses Gerry Wade, played by My Oxford Year's Corey Mylchreest, as the first victim, starting off on the wrong foot. While we hear Bundle emphasize why Gerry and his death meant so much to her, the characters around her remain as confused as the viewers watching. Bad pacing, uncooked chemistry, and a chronic lack of motive combine to make this Netflix mystery less a whodunnit than a who-cares for this. 

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