Only Murders In The Building “Hello, Darkness”

The previous episode of this series ended with a city-wide blackout.  This episode, while it doesn’t exactly ignore the murder mystery for its runtime, does instead go into something more character-based for people that aren’t involved in the podcast.

That’s actually the sort of thing this series does so well.

Now, for me, my biggest problem with Only Murders in the Building is that, well, I never quite know what to say in these posts.  The average episode only runs a little over a half an hour, and it’s got this nice, urbane wit to it or some nice character work, but unless I want to repeat the jokes, what do I do with that?  I’m actually trying to be better at offering actual criticism to these individual episodes these days and not just recount the plots as I have done many, many times.

So, am I glad horrible person Nina isn’t so horrible to Lester the doorman after being very horrible to him?  Sure.  It humanizes a character that was otherwise a stereotype of a bad mom-to-be, the next Bunny who may have been worse than Bunny even as this season shows the more human side to Bunny.

And known cat-lover Howard finding potential love with a neighbor who, sadly, is allergic to cats?  Yes, that is nice.

It was even nice how everyone in the building took to singing “The Sounds of Silence” even if Oliver sang along while he, Charles, Mabel, and Lucy were hiding from the killer…maybe.

Yeah, that was how the murder plot advanced.  The trio raced back to the building to get to Lucy before the killer maybe did.  That involved a lot of hiding in the tunnels.  Sure, it wasn’t the killer.  It was superfan Marv who, in his line of work, actually knows a lot about the tunnels already.  He just wanted to help.  He has a theory about an uncaught killer that operated on 6th Avenue…and a lot of other streets, but mostly 6th Avenue.

So, really, a nice character episode to give some humanity to secondary (at best) characters, the sort of storytelling that grants greater depths to the world where one building seems to have an awful lot of murders.  And I have little more to say than just a bit of appreciation for the work being done here.

Oh, and Detective Kreps sure does have a shiny neck.