DiscoverLearning British#13: The Thursday Murder Club — Watching Chris Columbus's Cosy Crime Adaptation
#13: The Thursday Murder Club — Watching Chris Columbus's Cosy Crime Adaptation

#13: The Thursday Murder Club — Watching Chris Columbus's Cosy Crime Adaptation

Update: 2025-09-06
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Sam and Natalia watch and review Netflix's new cosy crime murder mystery, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB.


THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB follows four elderly amateur sleuths who attempt to solve a murder in their luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village. The film stars Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Best, Pierce Brosnan as Ron Ritchie, Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif, Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft, and David Tennant as Ian Ventham.


Topics of conversation include Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, KNIVES OUT, Richard Osman's original novel, Einstein's theory of relativity, Sam's "Ever Since Mom Died" theory of bad movie exposition, Pierce Brosnan's pronouns, school plays, predicting the mystery using Roger Ebert’s Law of the Economy of Characters, elephants in boxes, Polish representation in British media, Adrien Brody's accent in THE BRUTALIST, unforgivable Bogdan changes, and PERCY JACKSON.


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#13: The Thursday Murder Club — Watching Chris Columbus's Cosy Crime Adaptation

#13: The Thursday Murder Club — Watching Chris Columbus's Cosy Crime Adaptation