In the fifth season of this stellar comedy, the most murderous building in New York serves up another victim, one that really hits close to home for the Arconia residents. At the end of the Season 4 finale, the now Hollywood-famous trio of true crime podcasters — Charles ( Steve Martin , also a co-creator with John Hoffman), Oliver ( Martin Short ), and Mabel ( Selena Gomez ) — stumbled upon another body: the building’s doorman, Lester ( Teddy Coluca ), dead in the courtyard fountain.

The bloody demise of Lester “opened up a world of New York that felt very right for the season because it was classical New York,” Hoffman, who serves as Only Murders in the Building ‘s showrunner, says. “It’s an unusual job, a doorman in an apartment building looking after everybody, and parti

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