Valley of the Dolls

This week's Only Murders In The Building episode begins with Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat, which is about a group of people coming together to survive. Professor Milton Dudenoff (Griffin Dunne) is the main focus of the episode, who has been a mysterious figure since the beginning of the season. The Westies have been cashing Dudenoff's social security checks and spending time together playing cards. The podcasters are convinced that the Westies are responsible for Sazz Pataki's death and devise a plan to invite them to a party to get a confession out of them. The episode brings much-needed clarity to the season, as the Westies have been an aloof presence, coming and going as potential suspects. Their characters still feel thin and not particularly interesting, but the episode does a wonderful job at making them more human. Episode 8 brings more emotion to the plot, with most of the episode spent in the West Tower with flashbacks. The episode's end focuses on a core theme in Only Murders In The Building: loneliness. Charles, Mabel, and Oliver have found family and companionship with each other, against all odds. With only two more episodes to go, the episode focused strongly on the Westies and brought a lot of clarity to the case. However, the character Sazz seems almost like an afterthought this season, as there have been hints for deeper storylines for each character, mostly related to loneliness. Season 4 of Only Murders In The Building has been a particularly packed one, with lots of new characters and a lot going on in terms of plot. In Only Murders In The Building season 4, the heroic trio Charles, Mabel, and Oliver are in danger as they are watched by someone via a secret camera and text messages from Sazz's number. The Brothers Sisters, who were once the directors of the film, claim they didn't kill anyone but were looking for him. This week's episode doesn't provide any more clues about the murderer, but it features a change of scenery and a return to Doreen, played by Melissa McCarthy. Meryl Streep also returns as Loretta, giving her and Oliver a chance to sort out their relationship. As chaos ensues at Doreen's house, the series features Eva, Zach, Eugene, and Bev, who are threatened by the studio. Episode 7 is an hilarious episode with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. Season 4 is known for its unpredictable edge, making every episode naturally surprising. However, Sazz's murder seems to often take a backseat in the series, with the action moving elsewhere and comedy replacing any hint of investigation. The author has no clue who the murderer could be, and it's becoming clear that the series isn't as interested in solving the murder as it is throwing comedy legends together.

This episode and Melissa Mccarthy brought a breath of fresh air in this season and I couldn't stop giggling (when i wasn't crying out of laughter). Also it was necessary for the trio to leave this building for once!

Watching Melissa Mccarthy and Meryl Streep especially in this ONE scene (not going to spoil but you know what scene if you've seen) was ICONIC and i'm sure 1000% i'm going to revisit.

The idea of having such a powerhouse cast all together in a house and their interactions are PURE comedy.

Also going to give Selena Gomez her flowers because she's NAILING it this season and if she got nominated for an Emmy for best actress for season 3... hopefully from what we've seen already she's going to be nominated and win for THIS season. She's finally relaxed, confident, delivers and thrives.

Martin Short and Steve Martin. They are the comedy legends that they are as per usual for this episode too.

Also Molly Shannon in this episode. H I L A R I O U S.

And Howard Morris, i know he doesn't appear a lot in this one but when he does...he brings the house down!! (a thing he never fails to do)

More of this please.💗

We have loved this season. Overall, we think that it might be even better than season one, and miles better than seasons two or three. Certainly funnier.

That said, this episode was lousy, and the only stinker of the season so far. Sappy, contrived, and plenty of nothing happening. It had some funny moments early on, and picked up a little bit at the end, but the middle 2/3 was terrible.

The mystery is still interesting, although this episode did virtually nothing to move things along. Just treading water. The real problem was that the humor was largely MIA, and what little there was, was broad and lame.

The rebound flirtation between Oliver and Charles's sister was cringey, and things didn't improve when Meryl Streep showed up to confirm yet again that despite their repeated declarations of undying love, there is absolutely no chemistry between Streep and Short.

This is even worse than the previous pseudo-documentary episode, which at least had the benefit of being creative. This one is just filler, in which nothing much is accomplished. The storyline is just too thin to fill out a whole season.

So now Charles gets a much younger sister for no other reason than to create this filler episode. I found them completely unconvincing as siblings.

I hope they paid renowned thespian Meryl Streep a whole lot of money to disgrace herself by getting into a stupid catfight.

Hopefully this is just a midseason slump and the next episode will at least be useful and advance the plot.

I cannot say enough good things about this episode everything clicked. The writing was spot on in the core actors did great. Melissa McCarthy was a guest actress who played Steve Martin's sister who lives on Long Island and was unrecognizable. She is arguably the best female and comedy right now, her range is amazing. Just crushed it in this episode. They even gave Zach Galifianakis, Eva Longoria and Eugene Levy material to work with. In the episode, they are told that actors can do anything as they basically do 95% research and during the episode they all work together and Mexico design a murder board and nearly solve the crime. It was cohesive and it moved the plot along nicely and is definitely the strongest episode of the season. I am going to enjoy watching it again with my model wife.