Imagine Golden Girls meets Murder, She Wrote, and you’ll have a sense of the immaculate energy that exudes from The Thursday Murder Club.
Now, I realize those comparisons might sound dated. But I challenge you to find a modern, massively popular franchise that allows retirees to be seen as smart, lively, and cool without apology. Yes, Only Murders in the Building has some of that — but suffused with New York neuroses and self-deprecation. The Thursday Murder Club is steeped instead in dry English wit, and with comparable star power.
Based on the popular book series by Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie as four pensioners who might be retired, but who don’t count their best years behind them. Instead, using the skills they’ve acquired over a lifetime as a spy, union leader, psychiatrist, and nurse, this curious quartet investigates cold cases. Or — in the footsteps of Jessica Fletcher — they explore the source of fresh blood that turns up on their own doorstep.
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