Only Murders in the Building went into production during lockdown in 2020 with a premise that might easily have served a single episode — three strangers come together to solve a murder in their apartment block. Five years on, the Hulu show is a fixture among Emmy voters, who regularly shortlist it for Outstanding Comedy and, likewise, show their affection for Martin Short by nominating him annually for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

The reasons for the show’s appeal are manifold, starting with the odd-trio chemistry of the three leads (Short, plus his longtime co-conspirator Steve Martin and relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez ). But there’s also a rich seam of irony being mined; in the first season, the proliferation of true-crime podcasts was satirized, which led to a studio d

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