Wonderful crew is spinning

The first season of “the only murders in the building” remains one of the most magic things that I have ever seen. It was created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, and the series is intelligently married to friends and collaborators Martin and Martin Short with The Sardonic, Deadpan Selena Gomez as three of the real crime they live in Luxurious building in New York City, ArconiaThis is home road Many murders. Gomez, Martin and Short are making the delicious major trio that cooperates to resolve the killing of Tim Kuno (Julian Sehi). I am not the first person to point out that with every season of “the only killing”, the returns have diminished … somewhat, but I say “somewhat” because it is still a delightful and funny comedy often the championship of three really good actors.

These actors are still good in the fifth season of “the only murders in the building”, which shows the first three episodes of Holo on September 9 – but I am sad to say that they are spinning their wheels in a show that appears to be fading. In the wake of the mystery of the killing last season, which focused on the death of Charles Haden Savage (Martin), the former Sazz Pataki game (Jinin Lynch), Mapil, Charles, and Oliver Putnam (Short) returned to work as an amateur investigator. and Podcast will host after the gatekeeper has long been found in Arconia Lester Coluca (Teddy Coluca) dead in the building’s yard fountain.

Although his death officially announced an accident, Leicester’s death raises some questions in favor of Maple, Charles and Oliver, who start the investigation during an interview with Leicester Lauren (Diane West) – and when a second body appears and Musta Nikki dies in Moses. conclusion. This is all a fun preparation for a new season of “only murders” on paper, so how is it placed in practice?

Since it became the first season of “the only murders in the building”, it has been a fleeing success, Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short, and the forces in Holo calling on all their famous friends in different seasons. Merrill Strip is a more clear example here after joining as a special guest star in the third season, and it is not fair to me to refer to her Oscar -winning colleague David Joy Randolph as another piece of acting in mind that she was already part of the show since its establishment (Randolf, who plays the role of the New York Dean, Donna Williams, won the Academy Award for “The Holdoves” in 2023). Besides Strip and one of its contemporaries, Diane West, the fifth season of “the only murders in the building”, adds a deadly row of famous faces: especially, Rene Zeluyger, Christophe Walz and Logan Lerman brings to the mix. (If you keep counting, before, this makes four Academy Award winners so far when Zellweger and Waltz include.)

Waltz plays the role of “Bash Steeg”, who is said to “own the Internet”, does not eat after 11 in the morning, and has a farm of teenagers who provide him with plasma for payments. (The face of the unintended valet is the way for jokes about how no one can discover his life. This is an inverted trio and perhaps evil, it seems that he knows more about Leicester and Niki more, easily, against Mapil, Charles and Oliver, and even intelligently trapped them with the development of a conspiracy that includes podcast ownership, but exactly like Eugene Levi Zach Gallvianakis-Eva Longoria Serberus in the fourth seasonThe show appears to be … a show instead of getting out of great stories.

I do not mean to say that these three stars, the two councils, do not have their moments. Frankly, one of the funniest side tasks in the whole season is when the gang visit Bash’s house, only to meet his strange children who seem to do things like Whittle and stand in empty swimming pools (before all the stars of the actors team play a set of riot games in an increasingly). Beanie Feldstein is also a new member of the acting team in the fifth season, and as a pop star, she – is short for her real name, ATHEA – she is a real joy, tortures the best former boyfriend Mabel with her wealth and influence at every turn. Another couple floats from the wonderful actors throughout the season, and I will not spoil from here, but it is very fun. My biggest courage about the fifth season of “the only murders in the building” is not its performances, and it is good in a uniform. It is the substance that is given actors.

The biggest dilemma in the fifth season of “the only murders in the building” is, in a frustrating way, its text. I am concerned that the series is noting notes from Netflix movies and using their dialogue to allow characters to clarify exactly what they do as they do; Mabel, Charles, and Over Over-EXPLAIN all Plot Point, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez to Walking Machines, not only respected. Central ambiguity is decent, but it stands through a clunky dialogue and honestly stupid lines like a person residing in Arconia Howard (Michael Cyril Creight Creighton) offers a robot round to the building also called Lester. It is frustrating, because the show has collected This is amazing Great crew, Martin, short, and Gomez is reliably excellent artists with crackling chemistry. Everything feels … lost, somehow.

Again, I want to confirm this – even the most impressive and worse moments of “the only murders in the building”, up to five seasons in, are still somewhat witch, and some jokes got real muffled laughs from me through the nine episodes of the critics. However, I am concerned about the future of this offer, because it really is in its wheels in this turn. If you ask me again when this show starts, it is possible that I will tell you that I am watching Gomez, Martin and Short Read the phone book if they are associated together. now? I am not sure that I want to see a full season of them as it solves puzzles if the text program does not allow them to shine … Trust the audience to pay attention to this process. After the fifth season, I hope that Maple, Oliver and Charles will move from Arconia, and we, as a community to face television, will move and remember the series with some bowl.

/Film classification: 6 out of 10

“Only murders in the building” Season 5 on September 9, 2025 on Holo with three episodes; The rest will broadcast weekly on Tuesday.