Ashley Park | Only Murders in the Building

• Genre: Comedy-drama, Mystery thriller
• Created by: Steve Martin, John Hoffman
• Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez,  Aaron Dominguez, Amy Ryan, Cara Delevingne, Adina Verson, Michael Cyril Creighton
• Music by: Siddhartha Khosla
• No. of seasons: 3
• No. of episodes: 30
• Executive producers: Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal, Jamie Babbit, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, John Hoffman, 
• Producers: Thembi Banks, Jane Raab, Nick Pavonetti, Kristin Bernstein, Madeleine George,, Sas Goldberg, Tess Morris
• Cinematography: Chris Teague, Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, Kyle Wullschleger
• Editors: Julie Monroe, JoAnne Yarrow, Matthew Barbato, David L. Bertman, Shelly Westerman, Peggy Tachdjian, Payton Koch
• Running time: 26–38 minutes
• Production companies: Rhode Island Ave. Productions, Another Hoffman Story Productions, 40 Share Productions, 20th Television
• Network: Hulu
• Release: August 31, 2021 – present

Three strangers - who live in the same New York City apartment building and share an obsession with true crime - suddenly find themselves embroiled in a murder.

"The Show Must..."

• Season: 3
• Episode: 1
• Directed by: John Hoffman
• Written by: John Hoffman & Sas Goldberg
• Premiere: August 8, 2023

At an audition for Oliver's murder mystery play Death Rattle, a struggling actress, Loretta Durkin, amazes him with her performance. Four months later, at the play's read-through, the cast and crew meet for the first time, including Howard as Oliver's assistant, Charles in a supporting role, and Ben Glenroy in the lead role. Loretta fails to deliver her lines convincingly, so Ben urges Oliver to fire her, but Oliver is convinced of Loretta's talent. In the present, Ben is pronounced dead by the authorities after collapsing on stage. At the play's planned after-party, Mabel floats the theory to Oliver that Ben was poisoned and proposes a new podcast. A revived Ben appears at the party, attributing his clinical death to food poisoning. He gives a phony apology to everyone for his arrogant behavior over the last few months, but veiledly insults Loretta again. Afterward, Mabel tells Charles and Oliver that her aunt sold her apartment, so she is moving out of the Arconia in a month. As they take the elevator, Ben's dead body suddenly crashes down in front of them.

"The Beat Goes On"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 2
• Directed by: John Hoffman
• Written by: Ben Smith & Joshua Allen Griffith
• Premiere: August 8, 2023

At Ben's funeral, Mabel and Charles meet Gregg, who claims to have worked for Ben as a security guard. Instead, Gregg is revealed to be an obsessed fan of Ben's, and kidnaps them. In Gregg's custody, Mabel tells Charles that Ben's murder is personal to her because one of his shows helped her overcome her father's death, while Charles reveals that the tension between him and Ben stemmed from when he unintentionally got Ben fired from Brazzos years earlier. Gregg intends to torture the pair into confessing to Ben's murder, but Detective Biswas arrives with the police and arrests him as Ben's killer. Mabel theorizes that since Gregg had Ben's handkerchief from the play and the body was found holding an identical one, Gregg could not have committed the murder. She and Charles agree to begin a third podcast to find Ben's real killer, about which Oliver is reluctant. Following a minor heart attack he suffered after encountering a critic who was planning to pan his play, he becomes inspired to turn the show into a musical.

"Grab Your Hankies"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 3
• Directed by: Adam Shankman
• Written by: Ben Smith & Joshua Allen Griffith
• Premiere: August 8, 2023

Charles attempts to find out which cast member lost their handkerchief, believing that one could be the killer. Concurrently, Mabel goes to Ben's apartment looking for clues and meets Tobert, Ben's documentarian. They are forced to hide when Dickie, Ben's brother and manager, enters the apartment, during which Tobert reveals he intends to make a documentary about Ben's murder and that he has footage of Ben before he collapsed on stage. Meanwhile, Loretta tells Oliver she has won a television series role in Los Angeles that begins shooting next week. Not wanting to lose her, Oliver reminds her that she is under contract, but later agrees to let her go if she performs her character's lullaby to the producers, Donna and Cliff. Amazed by her performance, they agree to fund Death Rattle Dazzle, prompting Loretta to stay as well, and she and Oliver kiss. Tobert shows Mabel footage of Ben in his dressing room talking to someone off camera. At the same time, Charles discovers that cast member Kimber, who plays Ben's love interest, lost her handkerchief.

"The White Room"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 4
• Directed by: Adam Shankman
• Written by: Matteo Borghese & Rob Turbovsky
• Premiere: August 15, 2023

The trio suspects that Kimber killed Ben due to an affair gone awry between them. But Kimber tells Mabel she only wanted Ben to promote her beauty products, and when he backed out at the last minute, she sold her handkerchief. She also reveals that Ben was upset on opening night about a red mark on his face until someone in his dressing room fixed it. Charles and Oliver break into Ben's dressing room, finding "Fucking Pig" written on his mirror with lipstick. Later, Cinda approaches Mabel with a job offer, but Mabel turns it down. Meanwhile, Charles has to perform a patter song in the play, but every time he rehearses it, he enters "The White Room", a comforting place inside his mind, while his body acts disturbingly without his knowledge. Oliver thinks this is caused by the pressure of his girlfriend, Joy, moving in with him, which Charles is not ready for. When he attempts to tell her that, Charles enters The White Room again, reemerging to discover he has proposed to Joy, while she recognizes the lipstick from Ben's dressing room as her own.

"Sitzprobe"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 8
• Directed by: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
• Written by: Pete Swanson & Siena Streiber
• Premiere: September 19, 2023

Flashbacks reveal that Dickie is Loretta's biological son, whom she gave up for adoption to pursue her acting career. Nonetheless, she had always kept tabs on him by collecting news about him and Ben, and upon learning their involvement in Oliver's play, she auditioned for a role to be reunited with him. At the musical's sitzprobe, she decides to tell Dickie the truth in a letter, but the police arrive and lock down the theater, saying the killer is someone from the cast or crew. The trio make amends with each other and decide to work together again to find the killer. While Charles and Oliver secretly record Detective Williams' interrogations of the cast, Mabel helps Howard reassemble a shredded document that might be a clue. Loretta learns that the police and the trio suspect Dickie as the killer, which she refuses to believe. Charles and Mabel find Loretta's letter, while Oliver returns the scrapbook to her and confesses his love for her. During her rehearsal on stage, Loretta sees the police approaching Dickie, so she confesses to Ben's murder to save him. As she is led out of the theater in handcuffs, Oliver suffers another heart attack and collapses.

"Opening Night"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 10
• Directed by: Jamie Babbit
• Written by: John Hoffman & Ben Smith
• Premiere: October 3, 2023

After Loretta receives the missing handkerchief from Dickie, the trio uses it as evidence to force a confession out of Donna on the opening night of Death Rattle Dazzle. To their surprise, she readily confesses to Ben's murder but asks to see the play before she is arrested. Oliver takes the lead role when Jonathan cannot perform, having taken too much anti-anxiety medication, and Loretta finally tells Dickie she is his biological mother. Mabel notices Cliff going to the theater's attic after a conversation with Donna, and confronts him upon realizing he pushed Ben down the elevator shaft. A guilt-ridden Cliff insists it was an accident and attempts to commit suicide by jumping from above the stage but is stopped and comforted by Donna. The two are taken into custody as the show ends with a huge success. At the play's after-party, Dickie, Loretta, and Tobert reveal they all have upcoming gigs in Los Angeles, but the trio decide to stay in New York. Sazz, once again dressed the same as Charles, comes to celebrate and tells Charles they need to talk before entering Charles' apartment, where she is shot and apparently killed by an unknown assailant.