The Thursday Murder Club and The Roses – here’s what to watch this week

August 28

The Thursday Murder Club, Netflix

Starring Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, four irrepressible retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands. Based on Richard Osman’s bestselling novel.

My Life With the Walter Boys’ season 2, Netflix

Love-triangle drama is still very much alive for Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) as she heads back to Silver Falls, Colorado, after a much-needed summer escape in New York City. My Life with the Walter Boys season two reunites viewers with Jackie, Cole (Noah LaLonde), Alex (Ashby Gentry), and the rest of the Walter crew, and it’s clear that time away hasn’t untangled the romantic tension she left behind. According to the season two synopsis, Jackie comes home “determined to make amends with Alex and set boundaries with Cole while finding her place within the Walter family.”

August 29

The Roses, cinemas nationwide

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.