Everything in Only Murders In The Building is perfect. The series is simply brilliant. Each season, the series focuses on a format to tell a story that would otherwise be repetitive. And this week’s episode – Blow Up – is the best of the entire season. That says a lot!

Each year, at least one episode has a 100% innovative narrative and it is a delight to watch. In the first, there is the silent episode from the perspective of Theo Simas (James Caverly), the hearing-impaired antagonist. In the second, the game night led by Oliver (Martin Short), we travel through time in a hilarious and electrifying way. In the third, well, the third was a whole lesson in how to make a musical and each episode is an innovation. The fourth, with several spectacular moments, is about the filmmaking process, and so all the episodes are titled after the films.

We open with Once Upon a Time in the West (closing the final minutes without dialogue, like the Sergio Leone classic), then Gates of Heaven, The Stunt Man, Adaptation, and today, Blow-Up.

Blow-Up, by Michelangelo Antonioni, won the Cannes award in 1966 and is still one of the most influential films in Cinema, a perfect classic. It tells the story of the accidental involvement of a photographer who records a murder. The sequence in which he enlarges the photo (blow up) is tense and unforgettable. In Blow Up from Only Murders in The Building, EVERYTHING is recorded in different images (from phones, super 8, security cameras, drones, whatever exists and can be filmed). IT IS SENS-SA-CIO-NAL.

As expected, we continue from the shots of last week’s episode: the target was apparently Oliver, but both Zach Galifianakis and Glen Stubins (Paul Rudd) were also involved. The suspects at the time are the director sisters Brothers (Catherine Cohen and Siena Werber), who were protégés of Duddenoff (Griffin Dunne), the former professor of Cinema at NYU who also lives in Arconia, and who leads a fraudulent rental scheme, who should be in Portugal but has been withdrawing money from New York. We spend 25 minutes suspecting the sisters, only to discover that Duddenoff is dead (his body was also incinerated) and that someone has been filming the trio of podcasters, threatening them to the point of making them flee Arconia.

If the sisters are not the killers, who could it be? Why do they want to kill Oliver, Charles (Steve Martin), and Mabel (Selena Gomez)?

My list of suspects remains unchanged, and for now, I just haven’t connected Duddenoff to the trio. But there are ways.

My strongest theory is that Sazz (Jane Lynch) is behind this fake murder to escape with Jan (Amy Adams). We already know that Jan had escaped from prison, that she knows Arconia very well, that she hates podcasters, and that, through Sazz, she would have a connection to the film. So far, they are the ones with the most motives and opportunities. What gets them out of the picture is sending threats via cell phone to Charles, Mabel, and Oliver, but that could be a plot slip.

Duddenoff is clearly not dead (or in Portugal) and there are people blatantly lying to get us off the hook, but I bet Bev Melon (Molly Shannon) is the answer we need. She knows everything, is everywhere when you least expect it, and disappears when it’s convenient. What she is to Jan is still unclear, or Duddenoff, but she was in contact with Sazz and is extremely suspicious.

Next week we’ll have everyone away from Manhattan and Melissa McCarthy‘s entrance into the picture. It’s hard to tell this season, but I could be hot. What do you think?

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