![]() Season 4 is the last one, and it asks the show’s essential question: if Barry is ever able to change and leave his old life behind for good. ![]() I probably keep mentioning this, but my doctoral dissertation, which I defended the week of the season finale, was about theater/performance and detection! I was watching Only Murders dazzled by the thematic overlaps between “putting on a show” and “solving a mystery.” Plus, the musical-within-the-show soundtrack has some absolute bangers… don’t ignore Steve Martin’s fantastic rendition of an investigative patter song called “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?”Īh, Barry, Bill Hader’s brilliant, bleak series which grew darker and darker every season. Part backstage drama, part whodunnit, part showbiz comedy, it was a perfect entertainment engine. This season focused on a murder taking place during the run of a Broadway show. Season 3 of Only Murders was just as good as Season 1, if not better. Only Murders in the Building, Season 3 (Hulu) (And it’s partially filmed at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC!) It’s a smart, utterly modern murder mystery. The dwindling resources and climate destruction (which will only increase in our future) has not created greater bonding and compassion but encouraged individual greed and competition, especially by such billionaires. Technology has begun alienating us from our community but also our own humanity. ![]() BUT! The murder investigation gives way to explorations about how the various people in this place reveal what’s become of our culture/humanity on the whole. When a murderer strikes, she must figure out who they are before they strike again. Structure-wise, it boats a very familiar, Christie-esque conceit: Darby is one of eleven guests invited to this remote, extravagant location. Emma Corrin plays Darby, a novelist-turned-amateur-sleuth, who attempts to solve the murder of a billionaire at his estate in Iceland. Another gem from 2023, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s A Murder at the End of the World is an endlessly evocative, immersive, neo-noir whodunnit-y opus. Watch it now if you haven’t yet, I’m begging you! (Yes, it’s barely a crime show, but let me recommend it please!)Ī Murder at the End of the World, Season 1 (Hulu) Reservation Dogs! My heart! Season 3 of Sterlin Harjo’s beautiful series expanded the warm, community-aware conceit of the previous two into a very clear thesis for the whole series: that, yes, our beloved four central characters are coming of age, but so is everybody else, of all generations. But Season 3 is a perfect little ecosystem of television: a cat-and-mouse chase with a serial killer that allows our heroine, Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood, the perfect showdown. And there hasn’t been a new installment for at least seven years. The series, from Sally Wainwright, is dark to the point of heart-wrenching. Happy Valley has quietly been one of the best shows on TV for years, but I get if you haven’t watched it. It’s an absolute crime that Season 2 is its last one of many scraps of collateral damage caused by the budget-slashing measures of streaming tyrant David Zaslav, who could have easily been a Season 2 Perry Mason villain. ![]() Season 1 of Perry Mason was good, but it was also a real bummer! Season 2 is exactly right, a noir-tinged, Depression-era murder mystery with twist after twist.
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