Warning: spoilers ahead for Towards Zero episode 2.

's latest series, Towards Zero, aired the second episode of its Agatha Christie re-telling after fans previously took to social media to complain that the episodes were "slow". However, many were thrilled by a new major development during Sunday's (March 9) episode.

The three-part drama follows British tennis star Nevile Strange (played by Oliver Jackson Cohen) return to his childhood home, Gull's Point, for the summer; however, with a love triangle, deceit, jealousy and murder, things take a dramatic turn. Following an explosive night, murder strikes at the estate, and a troubled detective is forced to uncover a long-kept family secret which shakes up the already strained dynamics.

After the death of the matriarchal widow, viewers took to social media with elation at the murder mystery, making progress towards the main storyline. As one penned: "An hour and 40 minutes, and we finally have a murder. #towardszero."

As another exclaimed: "Hurrah!! #towardszero."

Just minutes into the episode, viewers had issued complaints and questioned whether the eventual plot twist would take place as a third asked: "Are we gonna to get a murder in tonight's Towards Zero?" (sic)

An unimpressed prematurely fumed: "What's this all about. No murders yet. Half way through second episode and no further forward #towardszero."

"Christ, this #TowardsZero programme is slow! 2 episodes in and not a whiff of a slaughter in slight," echoed a fifth.

During a Q&A panel, the Towards Zero director, Sam Yates, spoke on keeping murder at bay until halfway through the second episode instead of the first episode, which most viewers were expecting.

According to , he said: "I decided pretty quickly it was a kind of who's going to do it that becomes a whodunit. So, the idea was to make both parts of that as pleasurable as possible so that before anyone has died, you're going, 'Who could kill? Who could murder?'"

Speaking on how the decision affects the show's pace, Sam added: "And you're looking at everyone and hopefully feeling that everyone has a motive, and everyone could do that.

"And then, later on in the series, when death does come - it's a Christie, you know there's a death on the way - it clicks in."