- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 26, 2021
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Hulu’s comedic mystery is a ray of sunshine in today’s streaming landscape. As it’s continued to integrate guest stars into its mix, its warm and inclusive humor has grown.
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Toggling between sorrow and joy is the register of life itself as well as Only Murders in the Building. It feels like a show that could run forever, even though it can’t. For now, just enjoy the ride.
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It's fifth, silliest and most enjoyable season.
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Don’t worry: it’s still brilliantly put together and fun for all the family. It’s just that, like the building itself, Only Murders is now revealing hidden depths.
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Only Murders In The Building continues to be funny while presenting solid mysteries for Mabel, Charles and Oliver to solve.
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These side stories give you too much time to think, which means you spend more sussing out potential red herrings than paying attention to the action (Lester’s widow is played by Dianne Wiest, and heaven knows that nobody with a voice like that can be trusted in a murder comedy). And maybe this is all the point.
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Overall, Season 5 cleverly ties together the present mystery with the very beginning of the series, making the first season even more impactful than before.
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A fast-moving and typically energetic Season 5. .... This season, like last year’s Hollywood-set Season 4, operates more like comfort food.
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So even when the mystery sags, Only Murders In The Building reminds us that its purpose has changed from offering takes on the true-crime industrial complex to simply mining comedy from its capable stars. And on that front, it remains delightful as ever.
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All of these people are great comic performers, and the truth is that’s often enough with “Only Murders in the Building.” Again, it’s comfort food, something that goes down easily through a blend of breakneck plotting—there’s a new twist every episode—and remarkable starpower. Could it be better? Sure. But sometimes, good enough will do.
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The writers have got the formula down to a fine art: assemble all the suspects and persons of interest on the chessboard, shuffle them around with each new piece of information that comes out, and give the audience just enough clues to keep them guessing while they try to figure it out.
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Something about this season feels like a step down. .... Well, details-schmeetails. The jokes always land.
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