Only Murders in the Building Season 3
Overview
Oliver finally gets his Broadway comeback, and his leading man drops dead on opening night. Twice, if you count the hospital recovery in between. Paul Rudd plays Ben Glenroy, a movie star so magnificently awful that the suspect list is basically the entire cast and crew. And then Meryl Streep — Meryl Streep — turns up as Loretta, a struggling actress who waited fifty years for a break and gets one under the worst possible circumstances. Her big number, a lullaby sung about a lighthouse, might be the season's best scene, while Steve Martin gets saddled with a patter song that nearly breaks him and becomes a running gag about whether he can land it at all. Moving the trio out of the Arconia and into a theatre lets the show do what it secretly always wanted: a love letter to Broadway people, their superstitions, their egos, their bottomless need for one more chance. This is Oliver's season more than anyone's, and Martin Short plays his terror of being exposed as a fraud with real ache under the sparkle. The mystery plays fair, the cliffhangers still land, and it's the warmest the show has been.
