Only Murders in the Building has never been more fun, even with its weakest mystery yet

polygon.com:

We’ve finally learned which of the Pickwick triplets did it — well, we’ve finally learned who killed egotistical actor Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) on this season of Only Murders in the Building.

[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Only Murders in the Building season 3]

Turns out the person who poisoned Ben and the person who pushed Ben down the elevator shaft were, in fact, different people. It was mother-son duo, Donna (Linda Emond) and Cliff DeMeo (Wesley Taylor), the producers of Oliver’s Broadway show, who respectively committed the deeds.

(As for the Pickwick triplets mystery within the play, it was the detective character, aka the role Ben Glenroy was hired to play — gasp!)

The murder is solved, but this season’s mystery and reveal felt a little flat, especially compared to Only Murders seasons past. Considering the whole “mother covering for her son” reveal already played out in the previous two episodes, the big twist became pretty obvious early on in the finale. Blame it on foreshadowing that was a little too successful, which made the rest of the episode feel like it was prolonging the inevitable. Compared to last season’s cleverly staged sting and the first season’s bait-and-switch, the central mystery was underwhelming.

This season of Only Murders in the Building was actually pretty light on all things murders and buildings, the central hallmarks that built up the first two seasons. Previously, the show dove deep into the mysteries of the Arconia and unraveled not just the first episode murder, but also past deaths that haunted the main characters. But season 3 only really had one murder to solve (albeit, Ben Glenroy did “die” twice), and much of the action took place far away from the Arconia