A Building Full of Killers
The Arconia has a murder problem.
Not just one murder—three seasons worth and counting. At some point, real estate agents are going to have to disclose this on listings.
What I love about Only Murders in the Building is how it treats murder as a puzzle to be solved together. Charles, Oliver, and Mabel aren't detectives—they're fans of true crime who stumbled into actual crime. Their podcast approach to investigation (interview everyone, trust no one, speculate wildly) leads to both brilliant deductions and embarrassing mistakes.
And somehow, they keep being right.
Season 1 brought us Jan Bellows, Charles's bassoonist girlfriend who was secretly a killer connected to a decades-old mystery. Season 2 revealed Poppy White—actually Becky Butler, a woman who faked her own death and killed to protect her new identity. Season 3 gave us the most complex mystery yet, with Ben Glenroy's death involving multiple suspects and motives.
The killers in Only Murders are never monsters. They're people who made terrible choices when they felt cornered. That's what makes the show work—you can understand how someone ends up committing murder, even as you root for them to be caught.
And the Arconia? It just keeps collecting bodies.