‘Only Murders in the Building’: Satisfying series returns with Short, Martin and Gomez now the suspects

Oliver (Martin Short, from left), Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Charles (Steve Martin) are suspected of killing the condo board president as “Only Murders in the Building” returns. (Hulu)

In the premiere episode of Season 2 of Hulu’s slyly funny, weirdly warm (or is it warmly weird?) and reliably entertaining “Only Murders in the Building,” Martin Short’s wonderfully pompous onetime Broadway producer Oliver Putnam finds himself in the elevator of the Arconia apartment building with Amy Schumer, who is playing Amy Schumer. She recognizes Oliver as one of the tri-hosts of the popular “Only Murders in the Building” podcast and says:

“Would you ever consider selling me the rights to the podcast so I could turn it into an eight- to 10-episode streaming series with exclusive Internet content leading to game-ification?”