In last week's Tuesday TV Touchbase, I wrote about the recently concluded season one of Dead Boy Detectives.
Or rather what must be now called season ONLY of Dead Boy Detectives.
Netflix opted to not review the show for a 2nd season.
Well, fuck you, Netflix!
Well, fine! In my head canon, Niko is going to get over her case of death and will be OK.
So there!
This week, ye olde Touchbase touches base with the 4th season premier of Only Murders in the Building.
Fate has presented our intrepid trio of murder investigating podcasters with both a remarkable opportunity and a deeply personal tragedy.
First, the opportunity.
Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) have been whisked all the way to Hollywood to meet with Paramount Studios to (what they think) discuss making a movie about the first season of their podcast.
Well, "discuss" is a bit....
The studio already has a script, a directing team and actors cast to play the 3 roles:
- Eugene Levy as Charles
- Zach Galifianakis as Oliver
- Eva Longoria as Mabel
Eva Longoria is much older than Mabel but Eva explains that focus groups found the age gap between Mabel and the guys to be "really creepy".
It seems Paramount has everything ready to go and just needs Charles, Oliver and Mabel to sign off on it.
Mabel holds out on signing off on the deal.
All the Hollywood types assume this is some kind of power play to get a better deal but really, Mabel is distracted: she's just turn 30 and is jobless and homeless* and seeing her life played on in a movie screen play isn't helping her mental state all that much.
*Yet somehow always dresses in the best outfits.
Mabel isn't the only one distracted.
Charles is wondering where in the world is Sazz?
Which brings us to the personal tragedy.
At the end of season 3, Charles' stunt double Sazz (Jane Lynch) was shot by a sniper in Charles's apartment.
But as we see in this season 4 premier, when Charles, Oliver and Mabel get to the apartment, Sazz's body is gone.
While in Hollywood, Charles goes to Sazz's apartment where the mail and packages are piling up. Sazz has not been home in days. Inside the apartment, we find an art gallery that is a series of X-Rays. Charles explains to Oliver and Mabel that this is where Sazz commemorated the various injuries she endured in her stunt work and how much of her skeleton now composed of metal parts made in Bulgaria.
Prompted by a clue from their friend Howard's new dog, the gang fly back to New York and the Arconia. Following a trail of clues from Charle's apartment to the basement incinerator, they find a pile of grey ash... and a metal hip bone stamped "made in Bulgaria".
Charles wonders who wanted to kill Sazz.
Mabel points out that Sazz dressed and looked like Charles and was murdered in his apartment.
And season 4 is off!
Only Murders in the Building is as fun and plot twisty as ever but it hurts a little more since we've known and liked Sazz in her recurring role in previous seasons.
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Recently caught up on Hannah Einbinder's stand up special Everything Must Go over on Max. Hannah plays Ava on the Max series Hacks. The special is not so much a series of jokes but layered stories about her life, her reliance on weed, her ADHD, her Jewish heritage, her bi-sexuality and so on. There is a lot of physicality to her performance and she makes use of lighting and sound to punctuate certain bits.
I saw some reviews online were people complained that Hannah was not funny and didn't tell jokes. I have a feeling those reviews were mostly from toxic male trolls who just didn't get it. Hey, dudes! She didn't make the show for you.
I'm not sure she made it for me either but I found it genuinely funny.
Over on Netflix, Andrea and I watched Inside the Mind of a Dog. Narrated by Rob Lowe, this 2024 documentary looks at how dogs communicate, what they think, and why they do what they do in their relationship with humans.
It turns out that right here in North Carolina at Duke University, there is an entire program dedicated to dogs, how they think, how they learn.
And why doggies are so gosh darn cute, yes they are, good doggies!
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And that is that for this week's touchbase.
Up next? At some point, I suppose I need to catch up on the latest season of Umbrella Academy.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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