Spoilers

“Adaptation”

I love and hate the ending of this week’s Only Murders in the Building at the same time.

What a great episode that ended with a horrendous cliffhanger, a gunshot echoing through the photo shoot.

I literally said out loud, “You can’t end there” as the screen went to black.

Charles was seemingly putting together a big time theory that the Brother Sisters, the movie’s directors, were the ones who shot Sazz, one of them as the shooter in the apartment and one to clean up the mess and dispose of the body. When the timeline of the murder night was seemingly thrown off by a limited amount of time, Charles was down about his “brain no longer thumping” as was written in the script of the movie. However, he did come up with the idea of the two. The Brother Sisters also had a boot mark similar to the one left in the apartment by the apparent shooter.

Clearly, as we have several episodes to go, this is not the final theory to come out, but everything sure feels like it fits together. Sazz supposedly had called about a mysterious trouble with the movie just before she was murdered.

By the way, the cameo of John McEnroe was hilarious, if not really weird.

We are introduced to Marshall, one of the writers of the movie script, who seems very excited to be a suspect by the trio. He may seem suss, but I just do not think he is anything more than a red herring.

I am not a fan of the side story of Oliver’s concerns over Loretta’s new co-star, This feels like a distraction from the best parts of the story (much like the heart attack to Oliver last season, which turned out to be nothing). Oliver does get a ton of funny lines from this, but it just feels too sitcommy.

I look forward to this show every week as it has been one of my favorites this year.