Review: Only Murders in the Building, "Adaptation" | Season 4, Episode 5
The halfway point of the season marks the point where it's most awkward that the character don't know it's only the halfway mark
“You never pretend to be anything but what you are”
A show like Only Murders in the Building is a great show for weekly discussion: the mystery always has new twists, we’re encouraged to keep theorizing based on new data, and there’s enough stylistic panache to keep things interesting.
It’s not, however, always the easiest show to write 1200 words about on a weekly basis, at least once you embrace a more cynical view of its narrative structure. “Adaptation” is the midseason episode, and we’re at a point in the story where I don’t trust anything we’re seeing. There’s no way that the mystery is going to be solved in episode five—sure, the characters don’t know they’re in episode five, but we do, and it means that I don’t really see a lot of value in digging deeper into the possible resolution that it was the Brother Sisters who were responsible for Sazz’s murder. I feel pretty confident in saying that while one of them may have a bootprint that matches the one found in the Dude…