‘Only Murders in the Building’ Review: Super Sleuths

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Only Murders in the Building (★★★★☆).The show ushers in several new notable guests, including Shirley MacLaine, Andrea Martin, Michael Rapaport, and Amy Schumer, playing a particularly daft version of herself.

And, following a nearly flawless debut season, season two moves in a slightly meta direction, with its lead trio of sleuthing neighbors all acutely aware they’re trying to live up to the high expectations set by prior success.The series’ most successful component — the sparkling rapport between stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as murder-solving, podcasters Charles, Oliver, and Mabel — remains gloriously intact.

Their bonds, as performers and characters, feel deepened by the dangers they dodged throughout season one, and that are still reverberating through the building as the trio are pulled into their next 10-episode life-or-death mystery.It’s the same mystery that hung over season one’s cliffhanger finale: Who killed ball-busting building board president Bunny Folger?

According to NYPD detectives Williams (the drolly funny Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and Kreps (Michael Rapaport, really pouring on the New Yawker schtick), their number-one suspect is Mabel, who, unfortunately, can’t remember that she didn’t do it.