A couple of shows Andrea and I followed had finales last week.
Agatha All Along, I will address in next week’s Touchbase.
Today, let’s look at the 4th season finale of Only Murders In the Building.
Poor Charles was under a particularly hard emotional burden due to the murder of his stunt double and best friend, Sazz Pataki.
Since she was dressed as Charles when she was shot, there was the worry that Charles was the target.
Nope, Sazz was who the killer meant to kill and sadly, me and pretty much everyone on the internet saw it coming.
SPOILERS!!!!
You were warned.
Marshall Pope, the screenwriter for the Only Murders movie, did the deed because he was desperate to cover up his theft of the original screenplay that Sazz wrote.
For a character who died at the end of season 3, Jane Lynch got a lot of screen time in season 4 as we peeled back the layers of Sazz Pataki and what a good person she was and how much it suck at a lousy piece of shit like Marshall ended her life.
There were a lot of distractions from the hunt for Sazz’s killer in season 4. The side mystery of the odd people who live in the west tower from the Arconia and the mysterious Mr. Duddenoff. There’s a lot of fun stuff with this weird collection of people (you can’t go wrong with Richard Kind in the mix) but it seems to eat up too much time from the season’s main mystery.
Charles, Oliver and Mabel had to deal with the 3 actors hired to play them in the movie: Eugene Levy, Zach Galifinakis and Eva Longoria were funny as hell as version of themselves who think they’re helping our intrepid trio with their latest murder case.
And Melissa McCarthy is hilarious as Charles’ sister when he takes Oliver and Mabel there as a safe house from the killer. Except the doorbell keeps ringing with a lot of people who know exactly where Charles, Oliver and Mabel are “hiding”.
We also got a brilliant turn from movie director Ron Howard as movie director Ron Howard.
Paul Rudd is back… as a different character than last season’s murder victim.
And on top of that, there was Oliver’s continual stress out over his long distance relationship with Loretta. (It seems the fictional romance of Oliver and Loretta as led to a real life romance between Martin Short and Meryl Streep.)
The season ends on a positive note when Oliver and Loretta get married.
My favorite sequence in the season has got to be the knock down drag out fight between Melissa McCarthy and Meryl Streep. WWE has got nothing on these two.
One reviewer online called season 4 of Only Murders a self indulgent mess. I wouldn’t be that harsh but I get where they’re coming from. There does seem to be an emphasis on “Hey, can we top this?” with celebrity cameos. And that created a time crunch that came at the expense of Selena Gomez's Mabel. While Oliver got a story arc with his relationship with Loretta and Charles's friendship with Sazz formed the heart of the main murder mystery, Mabel lacked any kind of arc over the course of the season.
But I would rather spend time with a flawed Only Murders In the Building than not and the show will be back for season 5.
There has been another murder in the building.
Who killed Lester the Doorman?
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As if Andrea and I do not have enough TV on our plate, we've added the new sitcom Happy's Place. The series stars Reba McEntire as Bobbie, a woman who inherits her father's bar following his death. She also inherits a co-owner she doesn't want, Isabella, a younger sister by another mother that Bobbie did not know about.
Happy's Place is a conventional multi-cam sitcom but it has some genuine laughs and it's enjoyable enough for us to stick with it for awhile.
If TV is comfort food, Happy's Place is a nice warm turkey casserole.
I'll elaborate more on the show in a future Touchbase.
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Coming up next week on the Touchbase: Agatha All Along.
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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