REVIEW: “Only Murders may never again catch lightning in a bottle the way it did back in 2021, but it remains a better-crafted entertainment than anything we’ve glimpsed from Charles or Oliver’s careers in showbiz.”
But the humor feels much softer, and/or more predictable than in seasons past, and feels like a waste of the comic genius of so many of the actors involved.
The Season Two finale teased this year’s plot, showing Ben collapsing on stage in the opening night performance of. Season Three finds various ways to give Rudd more than just that brief cameo. In particular, the story bounces back and forth in time a lot to show what happened over the course of rehearsing the play, to reveal reasons why various members of the cast and crew — even Charles! — might have had a motive to kill him.
At this point, meanwhile, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Short, Martin, and Gomez — none of them known for their dramatic acting chops prior to this show — are all good at showing the more vulnerable sides of their characters. Nor, for that matter, will it shock anyone that Meryl Streep is wonderful at everything she’s asked to do here as a never-was finally getting her big break after decades of striving.
But through the season’s first eight episodes , I rarely found myself laughing, and when I did, it was more from the sheer energy of the performers than from any of the humor they’re asked to play. Some of this is simply that we know the characters so well that it’s no longer surprising when Oliver insults Charles to his face, or when Mabel is dismayed at the guys’ attempt to talk about social media and the like.
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