Only Murders in the Building Season 2 Review

 Hey everyone! How's it going? I'm doing pretty well. Today I'm going to be talking about season 2 of Only Murders in the Building. I will be talking spoilers because it's kinda hard to talk about the season as a whole without them, so if you're watching the show and aren't caught up yet, or if you haven't watched the show and are interested in it, please catch up before reading this review. Let's get into it.

Season 2 of Only Murders in the Building is a bit lackluster. Even the show itself knows it's lackluster because they made fun of that fact in the show. It's not a bad season, but it's more unfocused than season 1 is. For a good chunk of the season the group had no suspects and no leads to go on for who killed Bunny and then framed them for it. And when they did have suspects they were immediately disproven or not even worth investigating. Then there were some episodes that just went off on wild tangents that had nothing to do with the mystery itself. 

We got a few things carried over from last season, such as Charles's step-daughter, Lucy, who appears in several episodes, and Jan returns, albeit in prison this time. Oh and the podcast fans return as well for a couple of episodes. 

Our main characters, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel go through some stuff, with Charles finding out more about his father, getting to know Lucy, returning as Brazzos for a TV revival of the original series, and dealing with the fact that Jan murdered Tim Kono, Oliver learning that he ISN'T William's father, and Mabel dealing with the fact that she found Bunny stabbed to death in her apartment. All three of them got through all of it, but that's a lot of stuff to throw onto a cast of characters. Especially when they're also being framed for the death of their building's president.

The biggest twist of the season was discovering who actually murdered Bunny. For the longest time I thought it was Detective Kreps, played by Michael Rapaport, just because he was so eager to put Charles, Oliver, and Mabel in jail. But everytime a new suspect came up, I didn't attach myself to any of them, because everytime they turned out to be deadend leads. So when it turned out to be Cinda Canning's assistant, Poppy, who is revealed to be a woman who disappeared in another state and was presumed to be dead, I felt it came out of nowhere given we've known Poppy since season 1.

Something I noticed this season is that the other residents of the Arconia don't appear quite as often as they did in the first season. Mostly because our leads were following suspects who didn't live in the building, unlike with Tim Kono in season 1. They were still enjoyable to see whenever they did show up though. Particularly since they helped catch Poppy in the season finale.

The only thing I didn't care for in this season was Amy Schumer. I don't like her as a performer in general and she was just really obnoxious even though it was meant to be the celebrity suspect like Sting was in the first season. Neither of them were funny plotlines, they were just distractions. 

Despite the meandering nature of this season, I still think that season 2 of Only Murders in the Building was pretty good. The mystery itself was kind of boring, but the characters's detective skills are much better this season than they were last season. And the three stars of the show, Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short have such great chemistry together, as we saw in season 1 that they're the reason I'm still watching this show.

And that's gonna be it for me for today. I'll be back tomorrow with my review of a show I've been watching on Disney+ called Alone Together, which aired on Freeform in 2018. So until then have a great rest of the day and I will talk to you all later. Take care.