uot;cosy crime", but this was one of the worst. I've never liked all that Richard Curtis, Marigold Hotel stuff anyway – selling a gentrified hammy vision of Britain to America, it seems to me.
Compare perhaps to the Marlow Murder Club. Nonsense, of course, but, in the first episode at least, quite clever: three killers swapping victims. Yes, it's been done before with Patricia Highsmith/Hitchcock Strangers on a Train, but it was well handled. And it didn't take itself too seriously. Low budget – and there weren't any megastars strutting their stuff. Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley in The Thursday Murder Club, though – godawful. And the dim lower class policeman bamboozled by all the clever Oxford-educated, ex-MI5 toffs….
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