The Thursday Murder Club

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club is a cozy British mystery set at a posh retirement community. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Ben Kingsley as retirees who have formed a club that researches cold cases to pass the time – until a real murder, and a plucky new member, show up on their incredibly bucolic doorstep.

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0:00.0	Netflix's The Thursday Murder Club is a cozy British mystery on steroids, or given the fact that it's set in a posh retirement community, maybe we should say on statins.
0:15.5	Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, and Pierce Brosnan play retirees who formed a club that researches cold cases to pass the time
0:21.3	until a real murder and a plucky new member show up on their incredibly bucolic doorstep.
0:27.9	I'm Glenn Weldon. This is NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, and we're talking about the Thursday
0:32.5	Murder Club.
0:42.6	Joining me today is my co-host Linda Holmes.
0:43.5	Pip, Pip, Linda.
0:44.7	Hello, Glenn.
0:46.3	Also here is Christina Tucker.
0:48.5	She's the co-host of the podcast Wait.
0:49.6	Is This a date?
0:50.7	Cheerio, Christina.
0:52.5	And a cheerio to you.
0:56.4	Also with us is culture writer Margaret H. Willison.
0:57.2	How you going, Margaret?
0:58.6	Top of the morning, gee, Glenn.
0:59.6	There we go.
1:06.9	So the Thursday murder club is set in the both hoity and tooty retirement community of Cooper's Chase,
1:11.0	a gorgeous manner nestled snugly in the green British countryside.
1:14.4	Three residents have formed a club to solve unsolved murders for fun.
1:17.4	There's Ron, a retired union organizer.
1:19.7	He's played by Silver Fox Pierce Brosden.
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