The Thursday Murder Club<\/i><\/a> made its way to Netflix on August 28th after a six-day run in theaters. Since I refuse to go to a movie theater and pay money for something I already pay Netflix for, I watched it from the comfort of my couch. There are fewer things better, in my expert opinion, than enjoying my favorite actors all on screen together, pretending it\u2019s fall already, and practicing my British accent from the safety of my living room. The Thursday Murder Club <\/i>gives me the chance to do all those things at once.<\/p>\n The murder mystery movie is based on a book by the same name by Richard Osman, which I did not finish. I love, love, LOVE a good cozy mystery. I read \u2019em, I watch \u2019em, I even write \u2019em when I\u2019m feeling antsy, so for me to DNF a super popular one means 1. It didn\u2019t grab me and 2. I didn\u2019t want to owe my library any (more) money.<\/p>\n The movie, like the book, presents an adequate murder mystery that I don\u2019t really care about. When the mystery is good, I\u2019m sleuthing alongside the characters\u2014I\u2019ve even been known to make a murder board in my journal, a la Only Murders in the Building<\/i><\/a>. <\/i>But, in this adaptation, I wasn\u2019t itching to solve the case before the characters.<\/p>\n The victims are unlikable, which is normal for a cozy but doesn\u2019t help me get invested in the urgency of solving the crime since avenging them doesn\u2019t matter. The side plots aren\u2019t very intriguing\u2014the retirement facility is a great setting, but the B plots don\u2019t keep my attention. And the main characters are cute but not deeply developed.<\/p>\n Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie. \/ Giles Keyte\/Netflix<\/p>\n Unlike the book, however, the movie succeeds because it is populated by beloved British actors, which makes it the perfect cozy for people who are obsessed with Brits.<\/p>\n We have Dame Helen Mirren<\/a> at the helm of the ensemble cast and they fully acknowledge that she\u2019s our queen. If you recall, a year after playing Queen Elizabeth I in a mini-series, Mirren played Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen <\/i>and won an Oscar for it.<\/p>\n David Tennant and Henry Lloyd Hughes. \/ Giles Keyte\/Netflix<\/p>\n In The Thursday Murder Club, <\/i>when Mirren\u2019s character is getting ready to go sleuth, she puts on a long coat and wraps her head in a lil scarf. Her husband, played by Sir Jonathan Pryce (who, speaking of royals, played Philip on The Crown<\/i>), tells her she looks like the queen, which I\u2019d just said out loud to my television! I was waiting for her to start walking a Corgi.<\/p>\n Rounding out the ensemble, we\u2019ve also got a Bond (Pierce Brosnan), MY Doctor (David Tennant)<\/a>, Lucifer (Tom Ellis), Gandhi (Sir Ben Kingsley, and yes I know that casting aged like milk), and so many other British actors that I found myself playing a game of \u201cWere they in Harry Potter, Doctor Who, <\/i>or Spice World?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Pierce Brosnan and Tom Ellis. \/ Giles Keyte\/Netflix<\/p>\n David Tennant is a distinguished alum of both Harry Potter<\/i><\/a> and Doctor Who<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>but I haven\u2019t figured out if anyone is the true triple threat. You\u2019ll see your favorites from Julian Fellowes<\/a>\u2019 projects (Richard E. Grant, Spice Girls <\/i>alum), Bridget Jones<\/i><\/a> iterations (Celia Imrie, Doctor Who <\/i>alum), and BBC shows galore (et al).<\/p>\n The characters amble around their very fancy old folk\u2019s home, the exterior of which just so happens to be a filming location of X-Men, Descendants, <\/i>and others including, you guessed it, The Crown<\/i>. Other picturesque filming locations look familiar because they are\u2014there are only so many quaint English villages to go around, and you\u2019ve seen many interiors and exteriors in The Thursday Murder Club <\/i>in your other favorites.<\/p>\n Since it\u2019s directed by Harry Potter <\/i>1 and 2\u2019s Chris Columbus with the same earnest straightforwardness, watching The Thursday Murder Club <\/i>gives us the opportunity to engage in our Anglophilia in a safe space, both emotionally and because I\u2019m watching at home.<\/p>\n Naomi Ackie and Daniel Mays. \/ Giles Keyte\/Netflix<\/p>\n British media has increasingly become a minefield. My household will not be acknowledging the Harry Potter <\/i>reboot because FU, JK, and we\u2019ve banished Neil Gaiman\u2019s oeuvre from the house. As a result, we have been mourning the loss of some of our favorite British franchises. What was once a magical land (England) is now sullied because of its status as the turf of TERFs, but, of course, the entire country and all of its intellectual property isn\u2019t ruined\u2014just a few massive chunks of it. Despite not always being willing and able to separate the art from the artist, I\u2019m still a fan of most British film and TV.<\/p>\n So, even if The Thursday Murder Club <\/i>isn\u2019t a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie-level mystery, it\u2019s comforting to take a trip to the cozy countryside to spend an afternoon solving a gruesome murder or two and getting my British accent fix with the Thursday Murder Club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Thursday Murder Club made its way to Netflix on August 28th after a six-day run in theaters. Since I refuse to go to a movie theater and pay money for something I already pay Netflix for, I watched it from the comfort of my couch. 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