The new criminal comedy by Pierce Brosnan is struggling to compete with the 3 -month blockbuster of Netflix
On paper, the ambitious new police comedy of Netflix “The Thursday Murder Club” should represent the cream of the mystery of crime harvest. Made by Chris Columbus, he teams up Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as a group of retired people who decide to spend their free time trying to find unresolved crimes, to find themselves in the middle of a much more pressing deadly investigation than their usual cold cases.
Netflix released the film on August 22, 2025, to positive reviews, but unfortunately, “The Thursday Murder Club” has not found its audience. While the successful film of the Streamer of the Day – the animation phenomenon “Kpop Demon Hunters”, released on June 20 and already the original Netflix the most watched – continued to last near the top of the list of the 10 best Top 10 in Netflix, “The Guied Murder Club” is already dangerously close to the bottom. And where “Kpop Demon Hunters” continues to draw viewers up to a number two place on the list, “The Thursday Murder Club” holds a new number place, which is really not where a recent version of high -level streaming film wants to be at this stage of its life cycle.
Thursday murder is a worthy whodunnit who has not yet found his audience
The whodunnit trend in recent years has already given viewers the Hercule Poirot films by Kenneth Branagh and the films “Knives Out” by Rian Johnson, including the next murder film by Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”. Streaming platforms have also launched very interesting shows in the mix. Peacock has the excellent series of cases of the week Natasha Lyonne “Poker Face”, for example, while Hulu honored crime fans with “only starry murders in the building”.
Unfortunately, it seems that not all projects can be winners. “Thursday Murder Club” does almost everything, from the deployment of an absolutely stacked cast to present a really fascinating case of murder – but he failed to have an immediate impact. Perhaps the weather will be soft for the film, and the subscribers of Netflix will eventually discover the charms of a film which presents actors of absolute gems like Tom Ellis (“Lucifer”), David Tennant (“Doctor Who”, “Jessica Jones”), Richard E. Grant (“Withnail and I” “Loki”) and Jonathan Pryce (“Game of Thrones” Horses “) in the support of Roles (Game of Thrones” “” Slow Horses “) in support. Currently, however, “The Pisuday Murder Club” certainly does not seem that the kind of Netflix success could have hoped that it would become.
“Thursday Murder Club” is now in trouble on Netflix.
