And Then There Were None

Why tonight?

• ◆One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.

The story

Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.

• england
• based on novel or book
• isolation
• island
• murder
• miniseries
• murder mystery
• mysterious death
• 1930s
• accusation