# Only Murders in the Building
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu
**Created:** [September 6, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152 "2021-09-06T00:37:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 13
### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/241 "2024-08-27T03:11:39Z")
What with covid and the writers/actors strike and streaming’s inherent lack of needing to fill a time slot etc, it’s pretty refreshing to see a TV show that went through all that and still comes back on time every year.
Or maybe I just watch too many expensive, hard-to-produce shows and I’ve grown accustomed to waiting 2 and a half years between seasons.
Anyway, time to stock up on Gut Milk.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/242 "2024-08-27T10:33:42Z")
Really great first episode.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/243 "2024-08-27T11:31:50Z")
It hasn’t lost its charm a jot.
Also, I liked hearing Scott Bakula say “Charles” like he used to do in _Chuck_.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/244 "2024-08-27T15:31:38Z")
I’m spoiled by binge watching. I’m debating whether to wait before a few episodes are released. If I had to guess I’ll be doing what the wife wants.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/245 "2024-08-27T15:36:08Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> I’m spoiled by binge watching. I’m debating whether to wait before a few episodes are released.
I’m going to wait a few weeks. Being limited to one episode per week is frustrating to me these days. Funny how times have changed.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/246 "2024-08-27T17:28:43Z")
With something that really interests me I always try to watch it as quickly as possible to avoid accidentally seeing spoilers.
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/247 "2024-08-28T09:35:55Z")
Eva Longoria was hilarious. “When I was your age…a couple of years ago…”. And that was pretty good advice she gave Mabel.
Eugene Levy and Zach Galiafinakis looked like they were having a ball. I am kind of sad we didn’t get to see Jane Lynch though.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/248 "2024-08-28T11:46:09Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#):
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> I am kind of sad we didn’t get to see Jane Lynch though.
Don’t worry, she’ll be back.
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/249 "2024-08-28T16:33:41Z")
Early suspect time.
Meryl Streep. Acting too happy. Of course, she’s just an early red herring. Or is she? I didn’t get the joke about “New Orleans burn unit”. Anyway she already had her turn as “person who had something to gain” from - MURDER. But still.
The Brothers sisters. They can’t possibly be normal, and will have a clear motive soon to be revealed. Wait for it.
Jane Lynch. She’ll turn up as herself. Is that allowed? I mean, you can be a famous person playing a character in a world where nobody notices you’re Molly Shannon, or you can be Molly Shannon as herself, or rather a goofy version of herself proving what a good sport she is, like Malkovich. But both? Never been done; a level of Meta that might just piss the viewers off. I agree, she’ll turn up but only in flashbacks.
The chauffeur, who used to drive Charles around and doubtless had some interaction with his stunt double. Again to be revealed. Again too pat to be the answer.
Those X-rays on Sazz’s wall are a clue, as well as all the notes on her desk, Go back and hit pause and write that stuff down.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/250 "2024-08-28T16:42:03Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Jane Lynch. She’ll turn up as herself. Is that allowed? I mean, you can be a famous person playing a character in a world where nobody notices you’re Molly Shannon, or you can be Molly Shannon as herself, or rather a goofy version of herself proving what a good sport she is, like Malkovich. But both? Never been done
> [@Guest starring in your own TV show?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-starring-in-your-own-tv-show/1006195):
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> Recently we were watching an episode of [Dr. Kildare](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0565110/) from 1965. In the opening, the usual credits roll with freeze frames at the regular points. Title, “Starring Richard Chamberlin”, "and Raymond Massey’. Then the next freeze frame is “Special Guest Star Raymond Massey”. Wait, what? I had to backup and check. The PotW was indeed Raymond Massey in grizzled old man with beard makeup. And on top of it (and despite what the IMDb desc. says), no one notices the similarity in the show. They do the us…
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/251 "2024-08-28T16:45:56Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Those X-rays on Sazz’s wall are a clue
The x-rays are a foreshadowing/Chekhov’s gun, fired mere minutes after it was established.
As for who did it, it has to be someone who is a skilled sniper _and_ is strong enough to drag a body to a furnace hatch and lift it into it.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/252 "2024-08-28T16:52:22Z")
Who knew that Bulgaria was such a good place to get bone replacements?
A complete coincidence I’m sure, but Grave-y looks suspiciously like Ray’s old lab Bo from S1E1.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/253 "2024-08-28T16:53:28Z")
Sazz could be alive. Keep an eye out for someone else missing. Unless those replacement joints have serial numbers on them it’s too easy to assume those were her ashes.
Something was going on in that scene where Mabel picks up the wine cork. She stares at the oven controls momentarily for no clear reason. She also grabs a towel from the counter to wipe the floor with an puts it back on the counter. Perhaps a source of evidence later on.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/254 "2024-08-28T16:57:33Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Something was going on in that scene where Mabel picks up the wine cork. She stares at the oven controls momentarily for no clear reason.
Blood splattered on the oven when Sazz was shot. Mabel saw it and thought it was wine (like the blood she probably cleaned from the floor).
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/255 "2024-08-28T17:00:20Z")
The show was hinting that the three would find the body in the apartment. Like when they first entered, they got as far as the kitchen before turning on lights.
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/256 "2024-08-28T17:13:55Z")
Sazz can’t be alive. She was dressed like Charles, who was the assassin’s true target. Again, the chauffeur might be behind it, if not the actual triggerman or triggerwoman.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/257 "2024-08-28T17:22:48Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Sazz can’t be alive. She was dressed like Charles, who was the assassin’s true target.
I think she was the actual target. She discovered something and was about to spill.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/258 "2024-08-28T18:29:16Z")
She didn’t wipe down the oven, but she did leave the towel there after wiping the floor. Very convenient to have a cadaver dog in the building.
That building will surpass the murder density rate of Cabot Cove. Still likely to be buildings in NYC with higher murder density.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/259 "2024-08-28T19:32:26Z")
I’m thinking one of the repairs Sazz had as a result of the job was a titanium plate in the sternum…
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/260 "2024-08-28T20:26:13Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Those X-rays on Sazz’s wall are a clue, as well as all the notes on her desk, Go back and hit pause and write that stuff down.
The X-rays were almost certainly from the various injuries she suffered as a stunt performer.
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