Performance Review

An enjoyable episode in what has not always been a consistent series.

Oliver wonders is he has been Greek all along rather than Irish. It is just a way for him to avoid the truth as he waits to take a DNA test.

If Mabel thought she had found happiness with Alice Banks. She was in for a shock as Alice uses Bunny's murder as some kind of arts project.

This is the last thing Mabel needed. Podcaster Cinda Canning is hellbent in portraying Mabel as unstable.

As for Charles, the new series of Brazzo's starts shooting with Charles now wheelchair bound. His body double Sazz is also back.

In fact Sazz comes into use as she is sent to prison to talk to Jan. Charles knows he has to break up with Jan but cannot face doing it himself.

As for the mystery, it seems they have not been talking to Detective Williams, their contact in the police force who was helping them. She has been on maternity leave.

Going past the halfway point, Only Murders in the Building needed to move up a gear. Sometimes getting lost in the myriad of side plots and minor characters.

Although the previous episode ('The Tell (2022)') ended on a cliffhanger, the question of Will's lineage does not get resolved in 'Performance Review'. Instead, the plotlines become even more tangled, and a fair amount of suspicion towards Mabel is both engineered and warranted.

In a now-familiar fashion, 'Performance Review' is largely delivered through a minor character: this time, it is Poppy White (Adina Verson), the assistant to the true-crime podcast host Cinda Canning (played by Tina Fey, inspired by Sarah Koenig). Poppy's part is done well enough, given that she is neither at the centre of events - emotionally or narratively - nor does her character's change of allegiance necessarily call for sympathy.

'Performance Review' likely marks the end of Jan's (Amy Ryan) part in the series; if so, it was handled elegantly. The same cannot be said of the investigation as undertaken by the main trio. Here, Mabel, Charles, and Oliver are portrayed as distracted and inept. Luckily for them, the police force are even more so, and our heroes might still be the best-suited party to solve Bunny's murder.

The episode features stunning coats, more Cara Delevingne (that particular plot development has just taken a turn for the unhinged), and enough complexity to double as a law proposal. Let's see if this ball of yarn can be untangled in time for the grand finale.

This is my favorite episode of the show yet! So many unexpected twists and turns and zero slow moments. The cast was wonderful and that ending was shocking!

So much thrown at us that we need time to absorb things. Jan has made her way into their world. We realize that Mabel has some serious issues with trust in her world. She is betrayed by her friend who takes advantage. Meanwhile the broadcast is insincere and self centered with Tina Fey continuing to play a real heavy and her helper ready to split, moving toward Mabel. Also, the guys set up a stakeout where they are distracted and miss the possible solution. When this is over, I'm going watch this on my own, minute by minute.

Why would anyone in Hollywood ever hire the nastiest, meanest man in the country? Check his X account and see the nightmare of a cruel person he is. You ruined a perfectly good episode with him.

I wasn't too thrilled to see Jane Lynch, either, but even though she's not nice, she's not nearly as hateful as Rapapore.

The show has its ups and downs. It's mostly funny and clever with its storylines and I would enjoy watching it as a regular Thursday night program if only I could be sure Rapapore is never brought back for another episode. He's not even a decent actor so why pair him with this cast?