The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman’s wildly popular series of mystery novels has, inevitably, reached our screens, with Chris Columbus taking on the first book. We’re very much in “cosy crime” country – no Glass Onion-style knowing winks here – with the action set in and around a well-heeled rural retirement home. Helen Mirren’s Elizabeth, who used to be in “international affairs”, is the prime mover of the titular cold case investigation group, which also includes former trade unionist Ron (Pierce Brosnan), psychiatrist Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley) and Celia Imrie’s nurse/cake obsessive Joyce. The murder of a co-owner of the home leads the quartet on a lightly comic, reliably twisty hunt for the killer.
Thursday 28 August, Netflix
