Although "only murders in the building" is known for being a pleasant series for a small mystery, the main mystery of every season is pretty clear. Sometimes the clues are so obvious that hardcore fans are often a few steps ahead of the trio themselves. (That Discover Cookies of Season 3 For example, it was called by fans seven episodes. Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Fort) are two attractive, clumsy old guys, while Mabel (Selina Gomez) is a tired thousands of years old who should explain how to use their phones.

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It is rarely in real life for one of Mabel's age to hang out with two Septuariers all day, so it feels special to see the show. But in the original terrain for the series, the generational collision was not there at all. Like Steve Martin Explained in an interview of 2021:

"I just had this thinkt over 10 years ago, and it was for three older guys who live in a building in new york who realize they have a common Outside the building because it is too tiring. We are Old. And then Selena came together, someone's brilliant idea. "

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Would you enjoy a show for three lazy old guys who decided crimes without leaving the building? Of course, but adding a younger presence to the series feels like a clear improvement. Instead of the laziness of the old characters being the premise of the show, the "Only Murder" version presented their laziness as a lack of overcoming character. Oliver and (especially) Charles can initially prefer a quiet, lonely life, but Mabel helps restore the adventurous of youth. Well, it is ironic even derogatory of the old guys half the time.

There was a moment in The premiere of Season 4 of "Only Murders" It seems to have called on Martin's original idea for the show for a little dull. At the Hollywood party where Mabel will talk to Eva Longoria (which she plays on TV), Eve explains how the producers thought that the adult gap of their podcast was "nasty" and decided to get old in Mabel in his 40s in response. It is a fun little satire, noting how the adaptations tend to repair the source material to the extent that they end up killing the whole appeal of the original material.

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Charles and Oliver associate with a 28-year-old woman is Strangely, surely, but it's also the spark that makes the play gather. The show changes a small tragedy to the modern world, which is that people can learn many of those of different generations, but they tend to associate mostly with those around their age.

What helps keep the "only killings" fresh is that, as much as the show positions Mabel, as well as the cool young person who bounces out these Kuco old geysers, the show is still happy to sometimes flip the tables and allow Mabel to be an unconscious old man. One of the funniest scenes comes in Season 2, when Millen -year -old Mabel is to talk at once Daughterer Zir Zharles, Lucy (Zoe Koleti). It turns out that Mabel is also without contact with young people these days, the realization that only Helps helps only appreciate Charles and Oliver's fight even more. Hopefully, Season 5 of "Only Murders" will offer a reverse scenario, in which Charles and Oliver are forced to hang out with someone so comical that they make them and look young and hip compared.

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