Celebrating a golden age with murder and lots of Ilama drama

Prior to the Netflix release of The Thursday Murder Clubappropriately enough last Thursday - Pierce Brosnan said: "In our society today, older people are often pushed to the sidelines. It's shameful that they're not celebrated more.

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Equally memorably, his costar Helen Mirren previously said, when asked what advice she would give her younger self, that she would "use the words f*** off much more frequently".

Fans of Richard Osman's bestselling Thursday Murder Club novels will recognise the sentiments which run through the series like a stout backbone. Older people are not invisible, they will not be bulldozed by wide boys in the pursuit of money-and a couple still pack a fearsome right hook.

The story follows a feisty group of retirees living in the glorious community of Coopers Chase, who spend their days investigating cold case murders.

There are classes in archery and intermediate knitting, bespoke apartments, llamas... in short, everything one could possibly want in one's twilight years. Even if the latter do have a tendency to spit in people's faces and bite anyone who looks at them the wrong way - perhaps though they too are living out their later years in spirited fashion.

Oh and there's a murder club, that meets every Thursday to mull over cold cases thanks to hospice wing resident and former trailblazing DI Penny Gray.