A trio of true-crime-obsessed neighbors — Charles Haden-Savage (a washed-up actor), Oliver Putnam (a struggling theater director), and Mabel Mora (a young woman with a mysterious past) — unintentionally form an investigative team after a suspicious death in their Upper West Side apartment building. They launch a podcast to document the case, uncovering secrets, lies, and surprising connections to their own lives.
Mabel’s Secret Past: Mabel was childhood friends with Tim and a group called the "Hardy Boys," but they drifted apart after another friend, Zoe, fell to her death years earlier. Only Murders in the Building - Season 1
The show received several award nominations, including: Only Murders in the Building — Season 1
The season finale, "Open and Shut," cements this thematic arc. The mystery is solved, the killer is apprehended, yet the final moments do not focus on the triumph of the solution. Instead, they focus on the trio, sitting together, finally ready to engage in the mundane act of friendship. They are no longer just neighbors bound by a crime; they are a chosen family. The show received several award nominations, including: The
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