Mystery fans will recall their favourite husband and wife teams: Tommy and Tuppence, Lord Peter and Harriet, and, especially from film, Nick and Nora Charles.
Netflix’s Murder Mystery updates the formula and banks on a similar chemistry. Taking its cue from The Thin Man, it offers a new Nick (Adam Sandler) and a new Nora, so new she’s named Audrey (Jennifer Aniston). Do they match the sparkle of the Charleses of the classic Dashiell Hammett films? Not really.
The story begins with a distraught Nick discovering he’s failed his detective exam for the third time. That’s bad, but the bigger difficulty is keeping it from Audrey. He manages the ruse by fulfilling an old promise to take her to Europe. On the plane they meet Charles Cavendish (Luke Evans), an oh-so-posh Englishman who rather improbably invites them to his yacht in lieu of their travelling about France and Italy on a tour bus.
