The first season of Only Murders in the Building was lightning in a bottle. A comedy murder-mystery about a trio of true-crime fanatics who decide to start a murder podcast, Only Murders is a strange concoction that shouldn’t have worked, a fact embodied best by its unlikely leading trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. Martin and Short are longtime collaborators who co-starred in comedy classics like The Three Amigos and Father of the Bride, but the leads of Only Murders sound like a Mad Libs dreamed up by a lazy corporate executive. “Let’s get Steve Martin and Martin Short back together, and throw in… Selena Gomez!”
