I’m obessed with this season’s three new lead suspects

Only Murders in the Building Season 5, Episode 4, “Dirty Birds,” Puts The Omitb podcasters in a tight spot, nor they take on their Most Dangerous Adversaries Yet: Billionires. Whereas Last Week’s Three-Episode Premiere Focused on the Emotional Impact of the Ontgoing Case, Diving Into Doorman Lester’s (Teddy Colca) History with the Arconia and His Connections to the Mob and the Building’s Tenants, This Week Chapter is All About Intrigue.

In an installment that lighter on the laughs – thugh Christoph Waltz’s Violent Parsley Chopping was Certainly a Highlight – Viewers are insted given a crash courtipulation. While Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) Believe they’ve Got Nyc’s Highest on the ropes, it is really unlikly new trio who are called the shots.

It ‘slower episodes, and some scens, especially those involve the new lestr robot or mabel’s ex-free, “thé” (Beanie feldstein), made it a little to zone out. I KNOW Those Scenes Will Become Important Later On, Howver, and Honestly, follow Diabolical Ending? I’m still on the Edge of my seat, waiting to see what happys next.

Only Murders in the Building Season 5, Episodes 4 Introduces Three Fabulous New Villains

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Historically, Only Murders’ Killers have been the characters you’d least expert. The Very First Season Revealed That My Kono’s Murderer was None Other than Charles’s New Girlfriend. After that, anyding was posseible. In the Grand Scheme of Things, Though, All the Previous Villains Oliver, Charles, and Mabel have dealt with have relatively normal, Run-of-the-mill People. These three billionaires are anynding but.

This episode does a great job of setting up their wildly differenties. Creating characters like this – characters who are, by their Very natural, immesurably great and selfish – there’s a real risk of Maching. It would be so easy to portray I say as cartoon villains; there are enough real-World Examples to Choose From, AFTER ALL.

Rather than Being Put off by their greed, howver, they drew me in.

Christoph Waltz, Renée Zellweger, and Logan Lerman’s Characters are so Strangely Personable, You’ll Want to Know The Say Yourself. Only Murders Has been blessed with some Major A-List Stars, Including Meryl Streep, Eva Longoria, Tina Fey, and Paul Rudd. Yet this is one of the few times i’ve been more intrigue by the characters these a-listers are playing than the actors.

Waltz and Zellweger are perfection as Compulsive, Eccentric Billionaires. Zellweger’s Camila White is Quietly Devivious and Analytical, while Waltz’s Bash Steed is Darkly Funny and Obsessive. Lerman’s Fake, Easygoing Charm as the Not-So-Philanthropic Jay Pfluig is Compelling, as is his chemistry with gomez. It ‘s so erah for the audience to be fooled by say, just as oliver, charles, and mabel were, and that what do I say Dangerous.

SOMESTEMES, OUR FAVORITE HEROES NEED TO LOES PRIGHT THEY CAN WIN

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Only Murders in the Building Season 5, episode 4, isn’t just a great episode for the villains, Howver. Its ALSO A Solid Character-Building Episode for the Heroes. While Mabel, Charles, and Oliver Are Pretty Decent Amateur Sleuths, They’ve Also Been Wildly Lucky.

GIVE ALL The SUCCESS THEY’VE HAD AND CONSIDING EVEROHING THEY’S MANAGED TO GET AWAY SO FAR, IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT INFLED EGOS WOULD, AT SOME POINT, BECOME THEIR DONTFALL. Did they really think they couldsmart three people with unlimited resources? Did they really believe that one email was all it was to a major studio to produce their podcast, no Questions Asked?

Clearly, they’ve bitten off more than they can chew here, and there’s the excitation narrative potential in that. They don’t have a tangible safety net, which means they’ll have to be more caneful and clever than ever before. This season of Only Murders in the Building isn’t just About Lester’s or Nikki Caccimelio’s (Bobby Cannavale) Death Anymore. It ‘subaut survival, too, and i’m dying to find what happens next.

New Episodes of Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Premiere Weekly on Tuesdays, Exclusively on Hulu.

Release Date

August 31, 2021

NETWORKS

Hulu

Showrunner

John Hoffman

Directors

Jamie Babbit, John Hoffman, Cherien Dabis, Chris Koch, Robert Pulcini, SHARI Springer Berman, Adam Shankman, Don Scardino, Jesse Peretz, Jessica Yu, Jude Weng, Chris Teague

Wriers

Ben Smith, Matteo Borghese, Rob Turbovsky, Kristin Newman, Madeleine George, JJ Philbin, Ben Philippe, Kirker Butler, Jake Schnesel, Peter Swanson, Stephen Markley, Rachel Burger, Kenny Schwartz, Rick Wiener, Valentina Garza, Kim, Kim, Kim Rosenstock, Sas Goldberg, Thembi Banks