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I got around late to it, but I’ve watched the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building. While I really enjoy the show, it’s not quite on “Pay for a service just to watch it” level. If you need a refresher, the fourth season is the movie one. While it’s good, it also speaks to a show that could use a good reeling in.
It feels like every single idea that was thrown out for season four of Only Murders in the Building was accepted. Celebrities playing themselves? A trip to Los Angeles and then later a trip to Long Island so that Melissa McCarthy can play a broad stereotype? A faux documentary episode? It all happened, and it all piles on top of everything else. They even threw a wedding into the mix! And the return of Jan!
Again, I enjoyed the fourth season, but it was so busy and sometimes sweaty. Clearly, a fifth season is in the offing. There’s another cliffhanger at the end of the season to set up the next murder to be solved. I have no idea where they can go to escalate from the fourth season, and frankly I don’t want them to. Only Murders in the Building should tamp things down a bit.
That will have to come from the show’s creative forces, and probably from the stars. Only Murders in the Building is, to the best I can see, the most-successful Hulu original. It stars two comedy legends and one of the richest women in the world. They can likely do whatever they want. As such, I need to hope what they want is to streamline things some, to maybe not include every possible joke, bit, or throughline. It may be a bombastic comedy-mystery, but there are limits, and Only Murders pushed those limits in season four.
