While you pass the time waiting to tune into The Thursday Murder Club, another British series will fill the gap.
A few days ago, the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s best-selling 2020 novel hit cinemas, and will next week be streaming on Netflix.
Directed by Christopher Columbus, the film stars Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Pierce Brosnan, and Sir Ben Kingsley and follows residents of a retirement village in Kent who seize their chance to investigate when a murder takes place in their area.
Before the time comes to watch that though, The Marlow Murder Club offers a similar vibe.
First released in 2024 and available to stream for free on U, the mystery series is also based on a series of novels – written by Robery Thorogood.
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The first season – which consisted of four episodes – followed three women who investigate a series of murders.
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The trio are retired archaeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond), dog walker Suzie Harris (Jo Martin) and vicar’s wife Becks Starling (Cara Horgan), who are then enlisted by DS Tanika Malik (Natalie Dew) to try and uncover the killer.
‘A charming mystery with great female leads, this show builds slowly but doesn’t lean on shock to create intrigue,’ Common Sense Media wrote in its review of the first season.
‘Look, groundbreaking it sure is not, but cozy, it most definitely is,’ Decider shared.
‘It’s an enjoyable series with fun-to-watch fairly ordinary do-gooders bringing down nefarious schemers, and it’s reassuring to find happy endings are possible and crime still doesn’t pay,’ The New Zealand Herald added.
Meanwhile viewers called it ‘delightful’ and a ‘breath of fresh air’.
The second season of The Marlow Murder Club drew in an audience of over 2 million when it was released earlier this year, with a third season also being commissioned already.
That will follow the third book in Thorogood’s series – The Queen of Poisons.
Although the show has been celebrated as a stand-out in the ‘cosy crime’ genre, its star has previously admitted she struggles with the term.
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‘I really hate to expression cosy crime, I suppose I need to get past that,’ Bond told Yahoo!.
‘I think that audiences like the challenge, so the plots are intricate, complex, intriguing, and they make you think — they really make you think. I suppose the word cosy comes about because you don’t see the violence, that’s the only thing that’s cosy about them.
‘All the plots and twists are there, the murders happen, but I’m of an age now where I don’t want to see violence on my television. I like to be challenged, I like to be made to think, but I don’t need to see all of that — was that me accepting the word cosy?’
Her co-star Martin added: ‘Audiences know they’re in safe hands; we’re not going to go too far, the balance is beautiful. We know it’s going to be alright in the end.’
The Marlow Murder Club is streaming on U.
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