Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren make the most of 'The Thursday Murder Club,' Netflix amiable but treacly adaptation of Richard Osman's mystery bestseller.

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,

A village used in the movie adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club book has been improved using money from the Netflix production crew. Helen Mirren was part of the team that filmed at Aldbury in Hertfordshire during July 2024. In that time, the village was transformed into Fairhaven, the setting of Richard Osman's 2020 murder mystery novel.