"We open, bright red Pulp Fiction-y letters tell us, on Day Nine. Not Day One! Intrigued? You betcha! We are in Los Trios, Mexico watching a woman watch the Mexican military police await delivery of nine bodies, to store in an isolated facility's morgue. Which is fortuitous, because this is the beginning of a new thriller by Anthony Horowitz, called Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue (the title fits brilliantly)."
"I don't know that anything has given me greater or purer joy this year. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is unabashed nonsense, without a trace of cynicism or guile in a world stuffed to bursting with both. I offer my undying allegiance to its Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans. To wit: eight days earlier (Day One), pilot Octavio Fuentes is flying Flight CBZ517 over the Mexican jungle, when he loses all comms with the ground."
"Fortunately, all the main characters survive. They have only their carry-on luggage and two traits apiece to help them survive until, they assume, rescue comes. There is spoilt rich girl, Amy (Jan Le), and her devoted new husband, blue collar Dan (Adam Long); brittle British woman, Sonja (Lydia Wilson); a fantastically miscast Siobhan McSweeney as Lisa, a southern Maga belle married to heart-medicine-dependent Travis (Olafur Darri Olafsson);"
Day Nine opens in Los Trios, Mexico, with military police awaiting delivery of nine bodies destined for an isolated morgue. The story then rewinds eight days to Day One, when pilot Octavio Fuentes loses all communications while flying Flight CBZ517 and crash-lands the plane in the Mexican jungle. All principal passengers survive with only carry-on luggage and two personal traits apiece to aid survival. The series embraces pulpy, unabashed nonsense and mixes Agatha Christie–style whodunnit plotting with Lost-like survival shenanigans. The production moved from short-form Quibi to 45-minute BBC episodes, expanding its canvas and tone.
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