"Agatha Christie will be turning in her grave": viewers unimpressed with swearing in BBC's Ordeal By Innocence

Ordeal By Innocence viewers were shocked to hear the F-bomb dropped in episode two of the BBC whodunnit on Sunday evening.

While the reaction to the latest Agatha Christie adaptation – focusing on the death of the matriarch of an aristocratic family – has been predominantly positive, quite a few fans took to Twitter to bemoan the use of foul language.

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One scene in particular, which saw beleaguered and bereaved daughter Tina Argyll (Crystal Clarke) shouting "f*** off!" at a group of men who hassled her on the street, ruffled a few feathers.

"Agatha Christie would be turning in her grave at all this swearing and misery," Twitter user Rebecca O'Brien wrote. "I don't think there should be swearing in Agatha Christie," wrote user @heavenandthesea, "just not right."

https://twitter.com/RebeccaOBrien5/status/983086148493901824

https://twitter.com/heavenandthesea/status/983080488339419136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalspy.com%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fa854263%2Fordeal-by-innocence-strong-language-bbc-one-agatha-christie-adaptation%2F&tfw_site=DigitalSpy

https://twitter.com/GavinWi79234383/status/983090362465079296

https://twitter.com/PigsMightFly09/status/983075332273135616

But it wasn't just the use of four letter words that troubled viewers. A scene which featured Christian Cooke's Mickey Argyll jibing his brother-in-law Phillip Durrant (Matthew Goode) about not being able to "get it up", and Durrant later suggesting that Gwenda Vaughan (Alice Eve) had been "riding Leo [Bill Nighy] like a seaside donkey" on the kitchen table, also got under people's skin.

https://twitter.com/Tracy_Barlow/status/983075361616482304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalspy.com%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fa854263%2Fordeal-by-innocence-strong-language-bbc-one-agatha-christie-adaptation%2F&tfw_site=DigitalSpy

https://twitter.com/pwhitfield/status/983080935888510976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalspy.com%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fa854263%2Fordeal-by-innocence-strong-language-bbc-one-agatha-christie-adaptation%2F&tfw_site=DigitalSpy

https://twitter.com/JayneMoobs/status/983080584116400129

https://twitter.com/amandarprescott/status/983075245715349504

https://twitter.com/mikelovestweets/status/983253748872073216

But some of the show's defenders argued that the swearing and sex made the adaptation richer.

https://twitter.com/keirshiels/status/983104513560186882

https://twitter.com/JPCurti_writer/status/983132994369150976

Whatever side you fall on, it's fair to say the drama has certainly got people talking.