Let’s start by showing yall the trailers shall we?

Only Murders In The Building Season 1:

Only Murders In The Building Season 2:

Only Murders In The Building Season 3:

Sorry it took me long enough to get around to watching this show, I finally did and after watching it all I gotta say is—why did no one command me to watch this earlier?

This show is amazing, why didn’t I watch this before? BTW I thought I didn’t recognize the other two actors and only recognized Selena Gomez, but it turns out I recognize all three of them:

Steve Martin (who played Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film—I love that movie) plays Charles-Haden Savage.

Martin Short (who played Jack Frost in The Santa Clause 3) plays Oliver Putnam.

Selena Gomez (who of course was in Wizards of Waverly Place) plays Mabel Mora.

🎙️ Season 1 – Murder, Podcasts, and Psycho Girlfriends

These three random people just so happen to have the same podcast in common—and they also live in the same apartment building. One night, during a fire alarm evacuation, a murder happens.

So the three decide to take things into their own hands to figure out who the murder victim is, who did it, and also—they decide to make a podcast.

Say what now? Yeah, these three make a podcast where they investigate the murder. That’s clever.

What gets these three random people to become friends? They each love one specific podcast. Ain’t that convenient?

Anyway, here’s a brief rundown of the rest of the season:

• Selena Gomez’s character has a secret: she knows the victim, who was an old friend of hers. She keeps this from her two new friends.

• Charles-Haden falls in love with a woman named Jan Bellows. Wonder if she’s important.

• Two people named Bev Melon and her assistant Poppy White become a thorn in the group’s side. They’re podcasters.

• Charles-Haden also has a stunt double named Sazz (played by Jane Lynch). She goes around dressing up as him. He asks her to help figure out if his relationship with Jan is real.

• One of Oliver Putnam’s coworkers is Teddy Dimas, who has a deaf son (I forget his name). Turns out his son has a weird fetish for molesting dead bodies, and his dad tries to cover it up. After Jan Bellows and Oliver Putnam find out and get blackmailed, they end up calling the cops.

• One of the cops is a woman named Detective Williams. Her whole shtick is she doesn’t trust podcasters, but she slowly starts to see how helpful they are, so she feeds them intel.

• So, who murdered the victim? It was Jan Bellows. What!? Yeah, turns out she’s a psycho.

She tries murdering Charles-Haden. She poisons him so he becomes numb, but he crawls to his two friends—who were already suspicious of his girlfriend.

Unfortunately, she heads down to the boiler room to shut off the power. Everyone is evacuated and emergency crews show up.

The trio go to confront her. Mabel Mora knocks Jan Bellows out for murdering her friend.

The cops come and take Jan away. The gang gets to stay in the apartment even though the building had previously voted to kick them out for bringing “death” with their podcast.

Wow, how shitty. Sorry their podcast is such an instant favorite. Anyway, the trio decides to celebrate. Mabel goes down to get more alcohol. The other two notice she doesn’t return, so they go looking and find Mabel on the floor—with Bunny Folger in her arms and blood on her hands.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

🖼️ Season 2 – Paintings, Plot Twists, and Poppy Did WHAT?

In season 2, after the murder of their hated landlord Bunny Folger, the gang is under investigation—but not for long.

Turns out Bunny had a valuable painting. Why? We’ll get there.

Also, Mabel Mora gets discovered on Instagram by a famous artist named Alice (played by Cara Delevingne), who asks her to join the art world.

So, who murdered Bunny Folger?

We also hear mention of a girl who went missing as a kid… hmm, wonder if that’ll matter.

At one point, the gang thinks Bev Melon did it, so they lure her over and have everyone pretend to be in slow motion—because apparently she’s terrified of that.

But it turns out it’s Poppy White who killed Bunny.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

Here’s why she did it:

1. Turns out Poppy is the missing girl. She faked her disappearance to start a new life.
2. She wanted the respect of Bev, who neglects and disrespects her.
3. She thought murdering Bunny would give them a really juicy case for the podcast.

Wow, what a weirdo. One thing I love about this show is how each season connects—even if just through recurring characters.

Anyway, season 2 ends with Mabel and her new girlfriend Alice painting Mabel’s new apartment (she got kicked out of the main one). But she’s still tight with her two friends.

Then we end with Putnam’s play. Suddenly, Paul Rudd runs on stage. Wait, Paul Rudd!? And then he drops dead.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

🎭 Season 3 – Broadway, Cookies, and Paul Rudd?!

Putnam’s putting on a musical with Charles-Haden. Paul Rudd plays Ben Glenroy, and yep—he’s the murder victim.

He dies twice.

Once on stage, in front of everyone. But then he comes back—turns out the poison didn’t work. He dies later in the elevator.

I was surprised to see Paul Rudd! When he appeared, I was like, Paul Rudd!?

Mabel gets told by Bev Melon that her two geezer friends will leave her eventually. They’re busy with acting now. So she forms her own team: a new love interest and the dead body molester guy—who’s apparently trying to turn over a new leaf.

She’s mad that her two friends aren’t taking this murder seriously. She looked up to Ben Glenroy as a kid. Meanwhile, Charles is struggling with stage fright and keeps having breakdowns. Oliver’s too busy giving a role to a longtime friend who’s not actually that great at acting.

So who murdered Paul Rudd’s character?

A slightly autistic 20-something who’s terrible at acting and desperate to be on Broadway. Paul Rudd was going to end his career.

His mom, who’s a judge, sees the bad reviews and decides to poison Paul Rudd using cookies—his one weakness. Rat poison in the cookies.

But it doesn’t work. He ends up in the hospital, finds out the truth, and confronts the kid in the elevator.

The kid pushes him down the elevator shaft.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

They confront the mom. She asks to watch her son perform one last time before going to jail. They let her.

Meanwhile, the son is in the rafters above the stage, ready to end it. The trio and his mom talk him down.

The show goes on. Charles gets over his stage fright.

And we end on a cliffhanger: Sazz walks into her apartment and gets shot.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

🎥 Season 4 – Dead Doormen, Fridge Scripts, and Mission: Improbable

The gang gets invited to the red carpet to meet the actors playing them in a movie.

Charles is worried—he hasn’t heard from Sazz. Unbeknownst to him, she’s already dead in the apartment above.

The gang investigates. Their actors shadow them around New York. Zach Galifianakis is cast to play Oliver and calls him pathetic. Ouch.

Sazz’s body isn’t found. But a scrap of her clothing shows up in the incinerator. Uh oh.

Meanwhile, Charles starts seeing Jan Bellows again—maybe she escaped prison? Or maybe he’s just going crazy.

Enter the new character: Marshall P. Pope, a scriptwriter. Hmm.

So who killed Sazz and why?

Turns out it was Marshall P. Pope. Mabel visits his place, opens the fridge, and finds Sazz’s original script. In the fridge. Why? Who knows.

Marshall holds her at gunpoint. He explains—he’s a wannabe screenwriter. He stole Sazz’s script. She found out and threatened to report him.

So he killed her.

Putnam and Charles go to the other building and ask their new weird friends for help. They literally Mission: Impossible their way across the building exterior to save Mabel.

They grab the gun. Marshall breaks down, yelling that Hollywood is broken. They’re distracted. He grabs the gun.

Then—a bullet from behind.

Jan.

💀 DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

She’s sent back to prison. Charles still has feelings for her for some reason.

Then—final gut punch—the gang finds their elderly doorman dead in the fountain.

💀 ANOTHER DUNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

Welp. Hope y’all enjoyed this review. Till next time.

Oh right, rating: 10/10. I highly recommend this series.