Distract yourself from, you know, everything with Agatha Christie and Élite

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse (Amazon Prime), Élite (Netflix)

Photograph: Ben Blackall (Amazon), Manuel Fernandez-Valdes (Netflix)

Right here’s what’s occurring on the planet of tv for Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14. All occasions are Japanese.

Prime Picks

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse (Amazon Prime, Friday, 3:01 a.m., full first season): “Not like its 1961 supply materials, [Sarah] Phelps’ adaptation presents protagonist Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell, trying, as standard, like a snake who’s smugly happy to be slipping inside his very costly human go well with), not as a bystander to a collection of mysterious deaths all linked to a trio of doable witches working out of a small-town fortuneteller’s store, however slightly as a person as much as his neck in grisly occasions. From the bounce, Easterbrook shows an uncanny knack for surrounding himself with lifeless ladies, even earlier than the police (represented extra as an exterior risk than an investigative physique, courtesy of Sean Pertwee’s gravel-voiced Inspector Lejeune) discover his identify on an inventory swiftly hidden in a lifeless girl’s shoe. There’s nothing neutral, then, to Easterbrook’s hunt for the reality; when he injects himself into the investigation, it’s with the clear air of somebody attempting to get out from beneath one thing, slightly than an outsider observer on the hunt.” Learn the remainder of William Hughes’ pre-air assessment.

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Élite (Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m., full third season): “The query of the longer term hangs thick within the air as the scholars of unique Las Encinas highschool proceed to grapple with love, hormones, and means too many crimes. The primary season of Èlite had spoiled wealthy children preventing to take care of their established order after the introduction of three scholarship college students threw everybody’s world off stability. The second season noticed the characters attempting to return to a previous that had been destroyed. These new episodes heart on the massive questions the clique faces with the prospect of maturity: ‘What future do I wish to construct? What future do I’ve entry to? And what future can I count on when my whole highschool expertise has been outlined by the murders of not one, however two of my classmates?’” Learn the remainder of Ines Bellina’s pre-air assessment.

Common Protection

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Disney+, Friday, 3:01 a.m.)Steven Universe Future (Cartoon Community, Friday, 7 p.m. and seven:15 p.m.)RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1, Friday, eight p.m.)

Wild Playing Cards

100 People (Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m., full first season): This collection, by which a various group of 100 people topic themselves to a collection of assessments and experiments to check hypotheses that range wildly in tone, scope, and usefulness, appears well-timed. What are the chances that the query about the precise means to make use of the lavatory features a phase on hand-washing?