Only Murders in the Building facts for kids
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| Created by | Steve Martin & John Hoffman |
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| Music by | Siddhartha Khosla |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English American Sign Language |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
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| Running time | 26–40 minutes |
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| Original network | Hulu |
| Original release | August 31, 2021 – present |
Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery comedy drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The show focuses on a trio of strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their upscale Upper West Side apartment building, and producing their own podcast about the cases, titled Only Murders in the Building. Its four ten-episode seasons premiered on Hulu in August 2021, June 2022, August 2023, and August 2024. The series was renewed for a fifth season in September 2024.
The series has received critical acclaim since its debut, with reviewers highlighting its comedic approach to crime fiction as well as the cast performances. It has received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. For their performances, Martin, Short, and Gomez have gained acting nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.
Cast and characters
Main
- Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage, a misanthropic semi-retired actor who was the star of the popular 1990s crime drama, Brazzos, and later, as a result of the podcast, its 2020s revival
- Matthew Lamb as young Charles (season 2)
- Martin Short as Oliver Putnam, an ambitious but financially struggling Broadway director who spawns the idea of the podcast and becomes its director
- Samuel Farnsworth as young Oliver (season 2)
- Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora, a young artist living alone in her aunt's unit who was part of a quartet that solved pretend mysteries throughout her childhood and teenage years, which included her best friend Tim Kono, the first season's murder victim
- Madeleine Valencia (season 1) and Caroline Valencia (season 2) as young Mabel
- Aaron Dominguez as Oscar Torres (season 1), a friend of Mabel and Tim who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of their friend Zoe ten years earlier, has recently been released from prison, and dates Mabel for a while
- Amy Ryan as Jan Bellows (season 1; recurring season 2; guest season 4), a professional bassoonist who begins dating Charles.
- Cara Delevingne as Alice Banks (season 2), an artist and briefly Mabel's love interest.
- Adina Verson as Poppy White (season 2; guest season 1), Cinda's ambitious assistant. She later reveals her true identity as Becky Butler, the subject of the All Is Not OK in Oklahoma crime podcast
- Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard Morris (season 3–present; recurring seasons 1–2), a cat-loving resident of the Arconia whose cat died the same night as Tim Kono. He becomes Oliver's assistant in season 3 for his play and becomes more invested in helping with the podcast during season 4.
Special guest
- Paul Rudd as:
- Ben Glenroy (season 3; guest season 2), a Hollywood actor who is murdered on the opening night of his first Broadway play.
- Glen Stubbins (season 4), Ben Glenroy's Irish-born former stunt double.
- Meryl Streep as Loretta Durkin (season 3–present), a struggling actress and Oliver's love interest, and later wife, who stars in his Broadway play, and later its musical reinterpretation.
- Zach Galifianakis (season 4) as a fictionalized version of himself, portraying Oliver in the film adaptation of the podcast.
- Eugene Levy (season 4) as a fictionalized version of himself, portraying Charles in the film adaptation of the podcast.
- Eva Longoria (season 4) as a fictionalized version of herself, portraying Mabel in the film adaptation of the podcast.
Recurring
- Julian Cihi as Tim Kono (season 1), a resident of the Arconia who dies in the first episode. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death spur Charles, Oliver, and Mabel to do their own investigation.
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Detective Donna Williams, a detective who ends up becoming involved with each of the mysteries. She is introduced when she initially closes the Kono murder case but becomes interested again after her wife starts listening to the podcast.
- Tina Fey as Cinda Canning (seasons 1–2; guest season 3), the host of the true crime podcast All Is Not OK in Oklahoma, a parody of Sarah Koenig and her true crime podcast Serial.
- Jackie Hoffman as Uma Heller, an ornery Arconia resident
- Jayne Houdyshell as Bunny Folger (seasons 1–2; guest season 3), the iron-fisted board president of the Arconia whose murder is investigated in the second season.
- Houdyshell also voices Mrs. Gambolini (season 2), Bunny's pet parrot
- Nathan Lane as Teddy Dimas (seasons 1–2), an old friend and patron of Oliver's family, who has ties to organized crime and agrees to sponsor the podcast.
- James Caverly as Theo Dimas (season 1; guest seasons 2–3), Teddy's Deaf son.
- Ryan Broussard as Will Putnam (seasons 1–2; guest seasons 3–4), Oliver's son
- Teddy Coluca as Lester (seasons 1–2 and 4; guest season 3), the Arconia's doorman
- Vanessa Aspillaga as Ursula (seasons 1–2), the Arconia's building manager
- Russell G. Jones as Dr. Grover Stanley (seasons 1–2), a therapist who lives at the Arconia.
- Jaboukie Young-White as Sam, Daniel Oreskes as Marv, Ali Stroker as Paulette, and Orson Hong as Grant (seasons 1–2), enthusiastic fans of the Only Murders in the Building podcast.
- Zainab Jah as Ndidi Idoko (season 1), Tim Kono's next-door neighbor
- Maulik Pancholy as Arnav Kapoor (season 1), Charles's next-door neighbor
- Olivia Reis as Zoe Cassidy (season 1), a friend of Mabel, Tim, and Oscar who died ten years earlier after falling from the roof of the Arconia.
- Zoe Colletti as Lucy (season 2), the teenage daughter of Charles's ex-girlfriend, with whom Charles has a tenuous father–daughter relationship.
- Michael Rapaport as Detective Daniel Kreps (season 2), a police detective investigating Bunny's murder
- Christine Ko as Nina Lin (season 2), Bunny's protégée and the Arconia's new board president
- Ariel Shafir as Ivan (season 2), a server at Bunny's regular diner
- Andrea Martin as Joy Payne (season 3; guest season 2), Charles's longtime makeup artist and love interest
- Jason Veasey as Jonathan Bridgecroft (season 3; guest season 2), Howard's neighbor and love interest, and an actor in Oliver's show
- Linda Emond as Donna DeMeo (season 3), a Broadway producer who funds Oliver's return to Broadway
- Ashley Park as Kimber Min (season 3), a young actress and influencer who plays Ben's love interest in Oliver's show
- Jeremy Shamos as Dickie Glenroy (season 3; guest season 4), Ben's adopted brother and manager
- Wesley Taylor as Clifford "Cliff" DeMeo (season 3), Donna's clingy son who co-produces Oliver's play
- Jesse Williams as Tobert (season 3), a camera operator hired by Ben to make a documentary about his Broadway debut and briefly Mabel's love interest
- Don Darryl Rivera as Bobo Malone (season 3), an actor in Oliver's show
- Gerald Caesar as Ty Wessex (season 3), an actor in Oliver's show
- Allison Guinn as K. T. Knoblauer (season 3), the stage manager for Oliver's show
- Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki (season 4; guest seasons 1–3), Charles's stunt double, who dates everyone he dates after him, and whose popularity with their coworkers often surpasses his. She is shot dead by an unknown assailant at the end of the third season with a snipe ostensibly meant for Charles.
- Molly Shannon as Bev Melon (season 4), a producer at Paramount Studios, intending to make a film adaptation from the podcast
- Catherine Cohen as Trina Brothers (season 4), Tawny's twin sister and the co-director of the film adaptation of the podcast
- Jin Ha as Marshall P. Pope/Rex Bailey (season 4), the screenwriter of the film adaptation of the podcast
- Siena Werber as Tawny Brothers (season 4), Trina's twin sister and the co-director of the film adaptation of the podcast
- Desmin Borges as Alfonso (season 4), the patriarch of a family living in the Arconia's west tower
- Richard Kind as Vince Fish (season 4), a resident of the west tower who wears an eye patch
- Kumail Nanjiani as Rudy Thurber (season 4), a fitness influencer and resident of the west tower who decorates his apartment with Christmas decorations year-round as a result of a Christmas-centric video becoming a hit
- Daphne Rubin-Vega as Inez (season 4), Alfonso's wife
- Lilian Rebelo as Ana (season 4), Alfonso and Inez's daughter
Guest
- Adriane Lenox (season 1) and Marie-Francoise Theodore (season 2) as Roberta Putnam, Oliver's ex-wife
- Sting as a fictionalized version of himself (season 1), an Arconia resident who was at odds with Tim Kono
- Roy Wood Jr. as Vaughn and Jacob Ming-Trent as Lucian (season 1), hosts of a horticulture podcast who give Charles and Oliver a ride
- Jimmy Fallon as himself (season 1)
- Esteban Benito as Tavo Mora, Mabel's cousin who runs a tattoo parlor (season 1)
- Mandy Gonzalez as Silvia Mora (season 1), Mabel's mother
- Amy Schumer as a fictionalized version of herself (season 2), who moves into Sting's former apartment and proposes a TV series to Oliver based on their podcast
- Ben Livingston as Charles's late father (season 2)
- Shirley MacLaine as Rose Cooper (season 2), Charles's father's lover and painter pretending to be Bunny's mother, Leonora Folger
- Damani Varnado as Liam Grimsby, a member of the Arconia board (season 2)
- Mark Consuelos as Mabel's late father (season 2)
- Noma Dumezweni as Maxine Spear (season 3), a theater critic
- Gerrard Lobo as Detective Biswas (season 3), a police detective investigating Ben's murder
- Adrian Martinez as Gregg Rivera (season 3), an obsessed fan of Ben's
- Peter Bartlett as Jerry Blau, a washed-up Broadway director and an old colleague of Oliver's (season 3)
- Matthew Broderick as a fictionalized version of himself (season 3), who is briefly cast in Oliver's show as Charles's replacement
- Mel Brooks as himself (season 3)
- Scott Bakula as himself (season 4)
- John McEnroe as himself (season 4)
- Griffin Dunne as Prof. Dudenoff (season 4)
- Melissa McCarthy as Doreen (season 4), Charles's sister who lives on Long Island
- Jason Kravits as Big Mike, Doreen's husband (season 4)
- Alexandra Templer as Helga (season 4)
- Ron Howard as himself (season 4)
- Téa Leoni as Sofia Caccimelio (season 4)
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| 1 | 10 | August 31, 2021 | October 19, 2021 | |
| 2 | 10 | June 28, 2022 | August 23, 2022 | |
| 3 | 10 | August 8, 2023 | October 3, 2023 | |
| 4 | 10 | August 27, 2024 | October 29, 2024 | |
See also
In Spanish: Only Murders in the Building para niños
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