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A week before Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials streaming premiere on January 15th, Netflix finally unveiled a brand-new trailer of the reimagined murder mystery, and it’s safe to say that we collectively can’t keep calm.

The trailer kicks off with multiple clocks alarming simultaneously against the backdrop of a murder close to home, leaving the series protagonist, Lady Eileen Bundle Brent, to race against time to solve the crime.

Speaking to Tudum, actor Mia McKenna-Bruce, who plays Lady Eileen in Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, said, “It was really important to make Agatha Christie feel accessible to people who hadn’t read her work, but also hold on to the heart of those murder mysteries. I really feel like we did what we set out to do.”

While the best judge of the outcome is undoubtedly the audience, this modern retelling of the Seven Dials story is set in the 1920s at a glitzy party where the charming Gerry Wade, portrayed by Corey Mylchreest, teases his intention to propose to Bundle. But the next morning, when Bundle finds Gerry still in bed, unresponsive, despite the cacophony of multiple alarm clocks inside his room, it’s revealed that he’s not really asleep, but dead, lying lifeless.

Upon the tragic discovery, Bundle makes it her mission to uncover the killer, who’s responsible for Gerry’s untimely demise. And you can very well hear her doubling down with determination as she says to her mother, Lady Caterham, in the trailer, “I’m not going to rest until I find out what happened to him.”

“She’s a go-getter. If you tell Bundle no, she’s just going to find another way to do it, and I love that about her. Particularly as a woman in 1925, she has a lot stacked against her, and she doesn’t let it deter her at any point. She knows the mission, and she cracks on,” adds McKenna-Bruce.

In the trailer, Bundle gets a hunch that the seven clocks ringing in Gerry’s room at the time of his death and something called “the Seven Dials”, are somehow correlated to the murder at the centre of Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials. So, despite the warnings from her friends, Ronnie Devereux and Jimmy Thesiger, Bundle doesn’t waste time with her investigation.

She eventually meets Battle, a Scotland Yard superintendent who’s also investigating the case and asks, “What do you know about Seven Dials?” With a knowing face and a bit of awe, Battle suggests Bundle stay away from the case and leave it to the professionals. “This is treacherous with a high degree of peril,” he says in the trailer.

But little does he know that Bundle isn’t one to let go so easily. “I’m not going to stop until I get to the truth,” she says, and knowing her grit, we cannot simply wait. So, don’t give up on your attendance this January 15th as Agatha Christie’s Seven Diala launches on Netflix.