Collider argues that Stuart Turton’s 2018 bestseller *The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* would make an effective television miniseries, comparing its mystery-driven sci-fi appeal to *Severance*. The novel combines a 1920s English country-house murder mystery with a time-loop premise, offering a distinctive format in an increasingly crowded television genre.

It follows amnesiac Aiden Bishop, who arrives at Blackheath Manor for a party where Evelyn Hardcastle is murdered, then repeatedly wakes in different guests’ bodies to relive the same day. He has eight opportunities to identify the killer while competing against two others, and Netflix announced an adaptation in 2020 before later cancelling it; the article notes that portraying one protagonist through multiple actors may have complicated the project.