I LOVE Only Murders in the Building and with every episode I fall more in love with it. With Siddhartha Khosla‘s perfect score creating a musical is even better. It was fun that the allusion to the second season was ‘cute’, but inferior to the first, in the opinion of Tobert (Jesse Williams). Which makes the challenge of the third bigger, of course.

Well, the alternative of leaving the Arconia to create suspense and returning to the building worked, after all, the apartment that once belonged to Sting, then Amy Schumer, and now, Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) was around and made sense the sublet. What makes it complex to innovate now is the list of ‘suspects’, if you don’t want to repeat previous seasons. The tip that Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Charles (Steve Martin) are following makes sense – one of the scarf recipients was at least with Ben when he fell from the elevator – but Oliver (Martin Short) has his mind set on his career. Without them working together the killer gets more room to act.

On my list of suspects, I hope to avoid 1) the girlfriend 2) the policeman 3) the producer with a special child, since it’s been done already. So while Loretta (Meryl Streep) has all the vibes of a psychopath, it would be repeating the formula of the premiere season. Of course, don’t scream, it’s MERYL STREEP now! I’m aware of that, but I don’t know if putting Oliver and Charles in the same arc is necessarily ‘creative’. Also, Mabel’s love interest, who they weren’t the criminal in the first or second, would be something different. Likewise, although they are very suspicious Donna DeMayo (Linda Emond) and Cliff (Wesley Taylor), would be the same problem as in season 1 with the producers being involved. So, we have the other cast members and of course, the submissive and angry brother of Ben, Dickie (Jeremy Shamos). It’s too early to close on anyone because although Kimber (Ashley Park) ended up looking weird, we still don’t know about Ty (Gerald Caesar) or Bobo (Don Daryl Rivera), or even Howard Morris (Michael Cyril Creighton), the neighbor and assistant of Oliver, who cannot be excluded from the suspects once again.

In the third episode then we see Mabel and Tobert visiting Ben’s apartment looking for clues. Well Mabel yes, Tobert more specifically a camera that was with Ben and could have revealing images. There’s him arguing with someone, we don’t know who it is. Tobert is obviously a huge fan and bear in mind that the recorded angle was not of Ben looking at someone, so he puts the documentarian in an almost compromising position. They are interrupted by Dickie, who is collecting his brother’s belongings and is very upset, but receives a phone call and leaves.

To keep the current going, the call was about Loretta. She and Dickie got along after Ben’s death, with him representing her. Dickie lands her a major role in a serial project and without the play, they think Loretta is free to finally start her career. But Oliver, who is about to make his musical adaptation and is delighted with her talent, does not allow it. Loretta’s reaction is ultra suspicious, but the two are having a romantic mood and she ends up “accepting” to stay. Now Oliver has two people resenting him: his girlfriend and her manager.

Charles continues to help Mabel, identifying that Kimber is the person who ‘lost’ the scarf and her clear jealousy of Loretta’s talent, it’s not good to take her off the list just yet.

Cliff fell out with Donna about continuing to invest in the musical, could mother-son friction hint at a potential killer? Who knows? The fact is that our podcasters still haven’t come close to defining the most likely killer. Just in case, having escaped suspicion in season two, I still have Howard leading the way. He has a motive, he has access, and nobody pays attention to him. We keep investigating!

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