Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticWhen three neighbors crash a crime scene mere minutes after it was first discovered, it doesn’t take much longer for a cop to realize what’s going on with them.
As Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) barely contain their morbid enthusiasm, the exhausted officer (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) rolls her eyes. “Okay,” she sighs, “what fuckin’ murder podcast are you all listening to?”She’s not wrong (and in Randolph’s hands, she’s not the cop cliché she could’ve been, either).
The unlikely trio only bonded over their mutual love for a “Serial”-esque series that same night, as they waited out their Upper West Side apartment building’s fire alarm with wine and wild theories.
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