ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING returns with the new mystery in the season 4 premier Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin). The episode itself resumes directly from events of the season three and revolves around the show’s main character,Charles, and the tragic death of his friend and stunt double Sazz Pataki portrayed by Jane Lynch. Immediately when the team start their latest case we are taken through suspense, mystery and comedy.
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More humor follows when the episode starts with a nostalgic look at childhood home videos of the three of them, first, which is a homage of sorts to their roots. However, the story quickly dives into the central mystery of the season: The incident to a large extent refers to the murder of Sazz Pataki. In the last episode of Season 3, Sazz was shot in a rather strange way in the presence of Charles, but now, the two are faced with the fact of her death.
Gaining a sense of the episode’s settings as it progresses, audience witnesses how three main characters, Oliver, Charles, and Mabel, rejoice over the end of the latest produced play of Charles. The two are watching television when the power supply is suddenly interrupted by a short black-out: the two remember the last power tune was when the huge incinerator in the building was closed some years back. Their thoughts are sudden cut short with the realizing that Sazz is no longer at the party since she went to accompany Charles for some wine appointment. When they go up to check on her in Charles’ apartment, there is no sign that she was laid there, dead on the floor and rather the house looks all clean and neat where the murder just happened. Here, the show offers a murder case where no body is found, thus starting what realty will prove to be an even more complex investigation.
As the three fight to come to terms with Sazz’s sudden disappearance, Charles gets a text message from Sazz’s phone indicating she was headed out of town to Los Angeles on some important business. The audience, however, knows the reality and therefore gets creeped out as Sazz is dead in the text. Despite Charles’ suspicions, the team temporarily shifts focus as a major opportunity comes knocking: Two years ago, Paramount Pictures decided to create their own murder mystery podcast that now became popular, and they want to turn it into a Hollywood movie.
Finally, in a somewhat surreal way, the three travel to a movie lot in Los Angeles to get a meeting with a Paramount Studios executive named Bev Melon (Molly Shannon). Bev gets them over excited with an opportunity she has already worked out in advance for them, she already has script, actors and the budget for the film adaption of their podcast . However, the success of the deal depends on the three key members Mabel, Charles as well as Oliver surrendering their right to their lives.
However, as the trio struggles to foresee whether they will make it in Hollywood or not, Sazz’s unit still remains unsolved. And before going to movie meeting, they go to Sazz’s apartment. That is when they realize that there are many unopened letters, which probably means that she has not been home for weeks. This only adds to their concern and endeavour to find out the truth to the mystery behind the box. But the opportunity to work in Hollywood cannot be called an invitation, as the additive’s popularity and the company’s consequent success is too enticing.
The act comes at the Paramount Studios party that is hosted in honor of Mabel, Charles, and Oliver where they come across the actors who have been typed cast to depict them in the movie. Zach Galifianakis is a newcomer to the TV show and will be portraying the character of Oliver, Eva Longoria will be portraying the character Mabel and Eugene Levy who will be portraying the character of Charles. Would you believe that Oliver’s first encounter with Zach is an exceptionally cringeworthy one? It is funny and the comedic tone is going to be set for the entire course of the episode. At the same time, a ‘shock’ to the main character Mabel happens to be Eva’s casting, and a new male friendship of Charles with Eugene Levy.
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