Underplayed Gems

Only Murders in the Building (2021)

Only Murders in the Building poster
Genre
comedy television series, mystery television series
Country
United States
Length
5 seasons, 50 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
8.4 of 10 from 2,224 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three strangers who all live in the same fancy New York apartment building bond over their love of true crime podcasts. They start investigating suspicious deaths in their building and make their own podcast about the cases.

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What happens

Only Murders in the Building (abbreviated to OMITB) is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The show focuses on a trio of strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their upscale apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and producing their own podcast about the cases, titled Only Murders in the Building. Its five seasons premiered on Hulu in August 2021, June 2022, August 2023, August 2024, and September 2025. In October 2025, the series was renewed for a sixth season. The series has received critical acclaim since its debut, with reviewers highlighting its comedic approach to crime fiction as well as the cast performances. It has received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. For their performances, Martin, Short, and Gomez have gained acting nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, and the cast of the fourth season received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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