In an early scene from Netflix’s new film adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club , about a quartet of senior citizen crime solvers, retired spy Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) and retired nurse Joyce (Celia Imrie)—the former in a lumpy cardigan with a scarf tied around her hair—approach the village police station. Joyce enthuses about the trick the pair are about to play on the local constabulary. “I feel like we’re in one of those Sunday-night dramas about two bright-eyed, feisty old lady detectives outsmarting the police at every turn,” she tells Elizabeth. “Never use the words bright-eyed, feisty old ladies in my presence again,” Elizabeth replies stonily.

Based on Richard Osman’s bestselling cozy detective novel series and directed by Chris Columbus, The Thursday Murder Club itsel

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