The Hulu favorite is stacked with cameos by Zach Galifianakis, Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, Melissa McCarthy, and more, squeezing out the core trio.
) keep stumbling their way into and through murder investigations. Her objection isn’t just to these three civilians consistently putting themselves in danger and interfering with the work of real police, but with the shoddiness of their sleuthing, which this time around has produced so many suspects that they need multiple murder boards to fit them all.
Even allowing for the fact that Galifianakis and Longoria aren’t exactly perfect matches for Oliver and Mabel, Levy makes sense as a stand-in for Charles. That said, it’s disappointing that Levy interacts so little with his formeralum Andrea Martin also mostly played scenes with Steve Martin when she appeared in earlier seasons. But if Rick Moranis or Catherine O’Hara turn up in a hypothetical fifth season and also don’t work much with Short, at that point it’ll feel intentional.
More often, though, Season Four is too busy, and too focused on dynamics other than the durable one among the three leads, to be as satisfying asis capable of being. It’s what happens when a show has been around long enough, and is successful enough, that it doesn’t want to let go of anyone who appeared previously — even dead characters like Sazz keep returning in flashbacks and dream sequences — despite continuing to add more, more, and more.
Much of the season premiere takes place in Los Angeles, where Charles, Oliver, and Mabel have traveled to consider the movie idea. For a few moments, it feels as ifis, in fact, willing to reinvent itself a bit, by taking our heroes away from their home base and focusing on a largely different group of players.
One disadvantage of the new season focusing so much on Sazz, and on her long personal and professional relationship with Charles, is that the mystery this year depends in large part on the two of them being indistinguishable. But the more we see of Martin and Lynch together, the harder it is to ignore how little they resemble one another, even from a distance while wearing identical outfits. producers from leaning so heavily on any and every famous face they can get to sign on.
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