Spoilers

Hulu’s original series, Only Murders in the Building, debuted late last night with two episodes. Season three features Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd joining the cast.

The end of season two saw Paul Rudd’s character Ben Glenroy, apparently being murdered during the start of the new play directed by Oliver (Martin Short). He fell done and looked to have been poisoned.

After he was declared dead, Oliver insisted that the whole crew still go back to his apartment for the opening night wrap party. Surprisingly, Ben showed up very much not dead.

Never fear, Ben’s fate was soon to be sealed as he would die once again by falling down the elevator shaft. Thus it works with the title of “Only Murders in the Building” and it will lead to the return of the podcast.

Lots of little to vital pieces were being laid out to set up this season’s mystery. These moments included:

• Oliver had a minor heart attack and is supposed to manage stress… something that doesn’t seem to be happening.
• Mabel was feeling lost as she has to move out of her aunt’s apartment in the Astoria in a few weeks. She was a fan of Ben, who was a well known actor.
• Charles & Mabel are kidnapped by one of Ben’s stalkers, who was going to kill them for his belief that Charles had killed Ben. The police are blaming the stalker for the murder of Ben, but Mabel was not convinced.
• Oliver and Loretta (Meryl Streep) have some kind of connection, potentially romantic.
• Loretta was an aspiring actress who had never got a break.
• Ben was a real jerk, being the over-the-top actor type character who is blunt and rude to many people.
• Charles had gotten Ben fired from a job on the cop show when Ben was a child and Ben was still angry over it.
• There was a musical interlude during one of Oliver’s dreams that included his son, Charles and Mabel. This was a tremendous moment of the show and it led to Oliver wanting to rebrand his play, Death Rattle, as a musical.

The chemistry with Steve Martin and Martin Short is once again just off the charts and Selena Gomez fits beautifully in with the two legends. You can’t go wrong with Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd either so the acting should be wonderful this season. Each of the characters have their own arc centering around the main murder story too.