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TV critics have a conversation about the finale of ‘Only Murders in the Building’

The following conversation reveals the killer in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” plus some other things you might want not to know. Spoilers abound! You have been warned.

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“Only Murders in the Building,” in which podcast-obsessed trio Steve Martin (as reclusive one-time TV star Charles-Haden Savage), Martin Short (as flamboyant, failing theater director Oliver Putnam) and Selena Gomez (as mysterious young person Mabel Mora) team up to uncover “Who Killed Tim Kono?,” delivered its solution Tuesday in a splendid, suspenseful, sometimes slapstick finale. (A second season, happily, is ordered.) Los Angeles Times TV critics Lorraine Ali and Robert Lloyd, who are fans of the show, get together here not to debate but to celebrate its merits. Anyone looking for an argument will have

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