REVIEW: Season 2 of 'Only Murders in the Building' is still tremendously entertaining and likable, but the comedy feels a bit softer (or just more familiar).
But how does the actual, made-for-streaming-television show, starring a pair of comedy legends and a pop superstar, hold up in its own sequel season? Through the eight episodes given to critics, the results are mixed. It’s still tremendously entertaining and likable, and in some ways even better than the first in how it digs deep into characters who could so easily be cartoons. But the comedy feels a bit softer, or perhaps just more familiar, and the mystery is substantially shaggier.
This is all played straight, and effectively, as are most of the spotlights on other familiar faces in and around the Arconia. The first episode opens with thejingle from a late-Seventies tourism ad — a relic of an era when the city was flat broke and people were still afraid to visit — and the season as a whole feels like a celebration of the kinds of lovable eccentrics who are inextricably drawn to the Big Apple in both good times and bad.
The fake podcast structure wasn’t wholly necessary, in that the sheer charm and chemistry of the leads carries an awful lot of weight. But its absence gives the new season a more rambling feel, and one that also affects the mystery itself.
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