Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep, Melissa McCarthy, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Zach Galifianakis, Jane Lynch, Amy Ryan, Richard Kind, Molly Shannon, Griffin Dunne
Only Murders in the Building is a series that has clearly lost its legs. The three leads continue to work with impeccable chemistry and with a degree of begrudging warmth, but one has to wonder why they or anyone continues to reside at the Arconia. This season marks the fourth murder in the building to be solved by the podcasters/amateur sleuths, and next season's will be the fifth. One murder would be sufficient to scare off residents and future tenants, but not in this show.
The season three finale had Charles' (Martin) friend and former stunt double Sazz (Lynch) shot and killed in Charles' apartment. Following this terrible murder, the Only Murders in the Building podcast is being made into a Hollywood movie with a frazzled producer (Shannon) in charge of the production and Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, and Zach Galifiankis playing Charles, Oliver, and Mabel in the movie. The three actors, playing themselves, also lend a hand in attempting to solve Sazz's death, in a season with too many subplots and tangents to begin with.
The mystery of Sazz becomes a slog, especially when a group of squatters who reside on the floor of the Arconia from where the shots were fired are introduced. It seems like their story takes forever to introduce and then resolve. Meryl Streep returns as Oliver's love interest who is filming a movie while Oliver weighs whether to propose to her. Paul Rudd, who played the victim the previous season, returns as a stunt double with an Irish accent. But, his appearance is merely a stunt and a whoa, look it's...moment. The fifth season promises another investigation, but Charles, Oliver, and Mabel should find another place to live.
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