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User Reviews for: Only Murders in the Building

jenkiskhan
6/10  3 years ago
We've been told a story, happens in one of the never expected places in the city, the Arconia, an upper-class residency that only has had a bunch of wealthy, -unsurprisingly, and mostly- old, boring residents, that know nearly anything about each others' lives. Which is a perfect start point for an unusual friendship to be formed: two wealthy (at least they used to be), old white men in their 70's (actually, one of them is in their early 60's) and a pretty, loner girl in her late 20's.

Along with the 'mostly' believable storytelling, some aspects occasionally get in the way of the series after a few episodes; making it hard for me to look at the story as serious or applicable to real-life, and returns these justified expectations that formed in the first few episodes upside down.

Over-caricatured characters that stretch boundaries of their characteristics even more, with every encounter they make with our trio, is not being helpful to this -out of the blue- murder mystery to be more believable or more genuine. It does not make the series worse but doesn't add up much to the tone they were trying to give. Twists, turns, and surprises are the main elements and the touchstones of murder mysteries, but I'd like them to be well-placed to the story, that doesn't show up just because the writers wanted them to be out, but more out of from a natural track. There were a lot of twists in the show, and most of them were not even the subject of being believable or not, no. They could've been seen as believable all day long, that was not the real problem with twists. They were believable, quite applicable most of the time, but the incidents which make these twists occur usually made me question the analytical and deductive skills of our main characters. (Going onto pieces of evidence to discover new leads every 3 episodes just to be in shock and go into a whole new direction was on the edge, and was hardly acceptable for my taste.)

And I know that a good twist -actually any twist- is hard to write. And the watchers, basically don't want any murder mystery to be solved with the first lead the detective, police, or a solver got his/her hand to. So, still a good job on the writers' part to make this story more intriguing and worth watching overall. It was fun to watch. 6/10
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