Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Created by Steve Martin, John Robert Hoffman
Written bySteve Martin, John Robert Hoffman, Stephen Markley, Ben Philippe, Kristin Newman, Madeleine George.
Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez&Cara Delevingne.
Executive Producers: Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Jamie Babbitt, Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal, Steve Martin, John Hoffman
Producers: Thembi Banks, Jane Raab, Nick Pavonetti, Kristin Bernstein
Production Companies: Rhode Island Ave. Productions, Another Hoffman Story Productions, 40 Share Productions, 20th Television
Distributor: Disney Platform Distribution
Network: Hulu
Plot: Season 2 has dealt with the murder of Bunny Folger, the acerbic board president of the Arconia. Bunny met her end at the end of season 1, and Charles, Mabel, and Oliver have spent most of the sophomore series desperately trying to get to the bottom of this deadly mystery.
I was so looking forward to season 2.
Season 2 was Only Murders in The Building was Very Good.
Pros: I like the Mystery and how itis well put together and resolved. I was excited and anticipating each new episode every week. A lot was going on for Both Martin, Steve, and Selena this season, and then I was impressed by the Twists & Turns that happening in the final episode.
Cons: I didn’t laugh at the comedy that much. The plotline involving Cara Delevingne’s Character wasn’t that exciting.
Cast & Characters:
Main:
- Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage, a semi-retired actor who was the star of the popular 1990s detective drama TV series Brazzos. He lives in 14C at the Arconia.
- Martin Short as Oliver Putnam, a financially struggling Broadway director who spawns the idea of the podcast and becomes its director. He lives in 10D at the Arconia.
- Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora, a young woman who lives in 12E at the Arconia, a refurnished unit that she is renovating for her aunt and who was friends with the first season’s murder victim, Tim Kono, years earlier. Caroline Valencia portrays young Mabel.
- Cara Delevingne as Alice Banks (season 2), Mabel’s love interest who works at an art gallery.
Recurring:
- Vanessa Aspillaga as Ursula, the building manager of the Arconia
- Julian Cihi as Tim Kono (season 1), a resident of 9A at the Arconia who dies in the first episode. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death spur Charles, Oliver, and Mabel to do their own investigation.
- Tina Fey as Cinda Canning, the host of the true crime podcast All Is Not OK in Oklahoma, a parody of Sarah Koenig
- Ryan Broussard as Will Putnam, Oliver’s son
- Jackie Hoffman as Uma Heller, an Arconia resident in apartment 3F
- Jayne Houdyshell as Bunny Folger, the iron-fisted board president of the Arconia and resident in 12A. Bunny appears in flashbacks in season 2.
- Houdyshell also voices Mrs. Gambolini (season 2), Bunny’s pet parrot who was left to Oliver in her will
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Detective Williams, a detective on the Kono murder who initially closed the case but becomes interested again after her wife starts listening to the podcast
- Nathan Lane as Teddy Dimas, an Arconia resident in apartment 6B, deli chain owner, and old friend and patron of Oliver’s, who agrees to sponsor the podcast. In the second season, he is revealed to be Will’s biological father
- James Caverly as Theo Dimas, Teddy Dimas’ son who is deaf and also lives in apartment 6B
- Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard Morris, a resident in Arconia apartment 3C and cat lover, whose cat Evelyn died the same night as Tim Kono
- Russell G. Jones as Dr. Grover Stanley, an Arconia resident in apartment 6C who is a therapist
- Adina Verson as Poppy White/Becky Butler, the ambitious but abused assistant of Cinda, later revealed to be the subject of her podcast All is Not OK in Oklahoma.
- Jaboukie Young-White, Daniel Oreskes, Ali Stroker and Orson Hong as Sam, Marv, Paulette and Grant, enthusiastic fans of the Only Murders in the Building podcast
- Teddy Coluca as Lester, the doorman at the Arconia
- Michael Rapaport as Detective Kreps (season 2), a corrupt police detective on Bunny’s murder, later revealed to be Poppy’s lover
- Christine Ko as Nina Lin (season 2), Bunny’s protégé and the Arconia’s new board president
- Ariel Shafir as Ivan (season 2)
- Zoe Colletti as Lucy (season 2), the teenage daughter of Charles’ ex-girlfriend, with whom Charles holds a tenuous father-daughter relationship
- Shirley MacLaine as Leonora/Rose Cooper (season 2), Charles’ father’s lover and painter, who pretended to be Bunny’s mother, Leonora Folger.
- Andrea Martin as Joy (season 2), Charles’ long-time makeup artist and love interest
Guest:
- Adriane Lenox as Roberta, Oliver’s ex-wife
- Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki, Charles’ stunt double
- Amy Schumer as herself (season 2), she moves into Sting’s former apartment and proposes a TV series to Oliver
- Mark Consuelos as Mabel’s late father (season 2)
- Paul Rudd as Ben Glenroy (season 2), a known theatre actor who dies while performing on stage
I recommend watching the first season before seeing this season All on Disney+.
Rating: 9 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
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