Back for a second season — and a second crime to solve — the success of Hulu’s cozy-funny-mournful whodunit “Only Murders in the Building” rests primarily on the shoulders of its three leads, and their blend of ruminative youth (Selena Gomez) and questionable life experience (Martin Short and Steve Martin) comes together once again to unravel yet another mystery.
But the draw this time out, for me at least, is the rich storyline of a side character named Bunny Folger. A cranky old so-and-so with white hair and big round glasses, she is the most hated person in the Arconia, the glorious abode where they all reside on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She is also the latest murder in the building.
The discovery of Bunny’s death-by-knitting needle was the cliffhanger that closed out Season 1, putting the crime-busting trio of Mabel (Gomez), Oliver (Short) and Charles (Martin) in the crosshairs of the police — and in the crosshairs of the real killer, for that matter. Season 2 picks up in the aftermath, when our amateur sleuths become persons of interest. After a brief interrogation, they exit the police station to a phalanx of media. “Oh my God!,” Mabel and Charles say, appalled. “Oh my God!,” Oliver says, thrilled.
