“Unraveling the Mystery: How ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Breathed New Life into TV Whodunits”
These series now share the room with cinematic crime thrillers, where the stakes get higher than is credible at times (cough, cough, Sherlock), or villains get five whole seasons instead of being thwarted in episodic capers (Breaking Bad). The traditional murder mystery, camp and all, has lately seemed to almost live entirely in re-runs in the recent past if you don’t count a few experiments on streaming networks.
But one such experiment may very well have brought back the old-school murder mystery in a way that would make Angela Lansbury proud—while using lessons learned from contemporary TV storytelling.
