ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING POST-PRODUCTION.
D espite the perennial popularity of Agatha Christie novels – her play, The Mousetrap , remains the longest- running West End show in theatre history – the whodunit has fallen on hard times of late. Kenneth Branagh tried to get the genre back on track with his 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express and this year’s release of Death on the Nile , while Rian Johnson conjured plenty of cutting wit with Knives Out in 2019. But the genre has yet to reclaim the lofty position it once enjoyed. On the small screen, the murder mystery has been eclipsed by police
procedurals or gritty docuseries, while the proliferation of true crime podcasts has only quickened its descent. Fans, then, will thank the heavens (or at least Steve Martin) for Only Murders in the Building , a series that has proved a real shot in the arm for the whodunit, mixing the tenets of the murder mystery with a sideways glance at the world of true crime podcasts. Cooking up a zinging comedy dish, it has met with the approval of critics and viewers alike. Created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, the show recently finished its second season on the streaming
09. OCTOBER 2022
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