Sharon Stone on Murderville
There’s something a little chaotic and borderline reckless about a show that hands a celebrity zero script, drops them into a fake murder investigation, and just lets the cameras roll. No safety net, no rehearsal, just vibes, bad guesses, and the looming threat of getting “fired” at the end of the episode.
That’s Murderville, and somehow, against all odds , it still works; four years later, it might even work better. Led by the ever-unflappable Will Arnett, this six-episode oddity on Netflix isn’t trying to reinvent the procedural, but actively breaks it; sometimes mid-scene, sometimes while someone’s eating hot sauce or pretending to be undercover in a room full of anti-magician activists. 'Murderville' Murder Mystery Where Only One Person Is in on the Joke Every episode pairs Arnett’s deeply committed detective Terry Seattle with a celebrity guest who has absolutely no idea what’s going on; they walk in cold. Everyone else — the suspects, the supporting cast, even Terry’s ex-wife/boss — follows a loose script, nudging the story forward. The guest is typically scrambling. asking questions that may or may not matter, missing obvious clues, occasionally spiraling. It’s kind of beautiful. The structure is deceptively simple: investigate a murder, interrogate three suspects, go undercover , then make a final guess. If they’re wrong, they get fired; if they’re right, they still probably embarrassed themselves getting there. What makes it click isn’t the mystery — it’s watching someone try to fake competence in real time. That tension, that awkwardness, that split-second decision-making is where the show lives. COLLIDER Collider · Quiz Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey's Anatomy · House · Scrubs Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong. 🚨The Pitt 🏥ER 💉Grey's 🔬House 🩺Scrubs FIND YOUR HOSPITAL → QUESTION 1 / 8APPROACH 01 A critical patient comes through the door. What's your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are. AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now. BTriage fast and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately. CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act. DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what's the thing that doesn't fit? ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 2 / 8MOTIVATION 02 Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you'd give in an interview. ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone's life is actually on the line. BBecause I wanted to help people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard. CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive. DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving. EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn't know what else to do with my life. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 3 / 8COLLEAGUES 03 What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are. ACompetence and calm — I need people who don't fall apart when things get bad. BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it's handled. CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated. DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me. EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 4 / 8LOSS 04 You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who's worked a long shift has had to answer this question. AI carry it. All of it. I don't look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly. BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost. CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don't think you're supposed to handle that alone. DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed. EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 5 / 8STYLE 05 How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image. AIntense and completely present — no small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there. BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something. CPassionate and occasionally chaotic — brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else. DBrilliant and difficult — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me. EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and easy to like. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 6 / 8RULES 06 How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice. AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can't provide. BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it. CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems. DRules are for people who haven't thought hard enough about when to break them. EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 7 / 8TOLL 07 What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What's yours? AEverything outside these walls — I've given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it. BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I've made a complicated peace with that. CStability — my personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that's not entirely a coincidence. DMy relationships — I am not easy to know, and the people who've tried to would probably agree. EMy sense of gravity — I use humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 8 / 8PURPOSE 08 At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you. AThe fact that it's real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today. BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there. CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I'd do it again. DThe next unsolved case — there's always another puzzle, and I'm not done yet. EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job. REVEAL MY HOSPITAL → Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In… Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for. Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center The Pitt You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn't let you look away. County General Hospital, Chicago ER You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential. Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle Grey's Anatomy You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door. Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ House You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn't fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one. Sacred Heart Hospital, California Scrubs You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ Arnett plays it straight-ish, which is key. He commits to the bit with this gravelly seriousness that makes every absurd turn hit harder. He’ll hand a guest an earpiece and feed them nonsense questions, force them into disguises that make no sense, and escalate a scene just to see if they’ll follow him. Guests like Conan O’Brien lean into dry, skeptical reactions, which weirdly ground the chaos. Others — like Marshawn Lynch — just blow the whole thing open by refusing to play it safe at all. Lynch, in particular, hijacks the energy entirely. It’s not even about solving the case; you’re just watching someone have the time of their life in a very strange sandbox. Why It’s the Ideal Weekend Binge If you’re coming to Murderville for airtight mysteries, you’re in the wrong precinct. The clues are there, technically, and the suspects have motives, sort of. But the show is more interested in watching someone fumble through one. There’s a weird, almost game-show undercurrent to it. You can try to solve the case alongside the guest, but the real entertainment is seeing how they interpret what’s happening. Or ignore it completely because they’re too busy reacting to something ridiculous Arnett just threw at them. Subscribe to the newsletter for TV oddities and picks Craving more takes on unpredictable TV moments like Murderville? Subscribe to the newsletter for curated recommendations, sharp breakdowns, and smart picks that spotlight offbeat shows and the performances that make them fun. Get Updates By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime. Six episodes, roughly 30 minutes each. No heavy continuity, no emotional homework required. You can knock it out in an afternoon — or stretch it across a weekend and treat each episode like its own little experiment in controlled chaos, and that’s really the appeal, four years on. Murderville doesn’t feel dated because it was never trying to be polished in the first place; it thrives on unpredictability, on watching performers drop the media-trained version of themselves and just react.Powered by Expand Collapse
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