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Only Murders Is Back in the Building, Baby!
Don’t be fooled by season four’s Hollywood sojourn. This series feels more at home than it’s ever been.
The problem with last season’s Broadway sojourn was its sheer insularity: There were too many gags coded like inside jokes for theater nerds, Martin Short was perhaps given too much space to do his thing, and the narrative strayed too far from the series’ chief comfort of watching our cross-generational main trio in cahoots with one another. Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Short) frequently butted heads as actor and director in the latter’s musical, and as a unit they were mostly cut off from Mabel (Selena Gomez), isolated in her own corner of the murder mystery with some guy named Tobert (Jesse Williams). This time around, it’s pretty much the inverse, beginning with the season premiere, which establishes the Hollywood hook as Charles, Oliver, and Mabel are invited out to Los Angeles by a major studio executive (Molly Shannon, pulling from The Other Two) who intends to turn the Arconia trio’s podcast into a movie.
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