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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Goes Hollywood in an Improved Season 4: TV Review


Season 4 of 'Only Murders in the Building' goes Hollywood for its latest, sweetly melancholy mystery.

First came Ryan Gosling’s “The Fall Guy,” a popcorn movie built around a body double; now comes Season 4 of “ Only Murders in the Building,” where the latest mystery’s victim is Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch), the longtime stand-in for ex-procedural star Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin). Unbeknownst to Charles, theater director Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and aimless millennial Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), their story has inspired a screenplay, which under this universe’s loony logic is now a full-blown production ready to let the cameras roll. There’s the eyepatch-sporting Stink Eye Joe (Richard Kind), an absentee film professor (Griffin Dunne) and a fitness influencer obsessed with Christmas (Kumail Nanjiani, whose character seems designed to reflect his post-Marvel physique).

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