If Only Murders in the Building started as a satire of “cosy” true-crime podcasts, but it quickly surrendered to the genre’s ghoulish pleasures.
Now entering its third season, the show – a comedy about amateur detectives co-created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman and starring Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez – is cosiness itself.
It hasn’t just bonded its lonely principals together rather sweetly through the slapdash investigations they opportunistically record for the public; it’s also stuffed with pleasant references and cameos.
Aesthetically, too, it invites you to curl up by a fire. Interior shots of the