“Unraveling the Mystery: How ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Breathed New Life into TV Whodunits”
The spirit of this is recaptured in Only Murders in the Building, written expertly by John Hoffman and Steve Martin to carry a good amount of tension, suspense, and intrigue—all aided by clear self-awareness about the “rules” of the genre. Much in the way that Scream or The Faculty become iconic for their understanding of the horror genre, so too does Only Murders in the Building make critical references and tongue-in-cheek jokes regarding the whodunit and the true crime genres of entertainment.