The Stunt Man

I really like Only Murders On The Building and the central crew are as good as ever but I wonder where this season is going. This episode is nearly ruined by a self-indulgent Paul Rudd doing an appalling travesty of an "Irish" accent, for no readily apparent reason. Aside from the that, the plot is advancing with glacial slowness. I hope the writers manage to pull it together soon and I'll still keep watching, but we are starting to get a sinking feeling of resting on laurels, particularly in comparison with the brilliant Season 3. So far nothing here has marched the highlights of that season or even come close.

Rudd's criminally poor Irish accent aside, I feel like this is the first Only Murders episode that felt like filler, and looking at how slowly this season is moving, filler is the last thing they need.

We certainly learned a couple of interesting points to move the case along but mostly it was learning about Rudd's identical Irish Lucky Charms mascot of a stunt man and the drinking establishment in which he and his other stunt people drown their sorrows.

Short, Martin and Gomez are as great as ever, and still keep their great chemistry, and I love the dream sequences with Jane Lynch, but I'm hoping that this is the last we see of Rudd's character and that the season starts to get some momentum.

I like this show. I dodged it for a while as I tend to with most shows or movies subject to a heavy handed advertising campaign - but it's decent, it's funny.

This episode, though - I mean, it was fine but as someone hailing from the British isles, Paul Rudd's attempt at an 'oirish' accent was so abominably poor it spoilt the entire 30+ minutes irretrievably.

Americans can't do most non-American accents, so please stop letting them try. There are so many world class actors from Ireland and Britain in Hollywood. Stop letting people without the ability 'have a stab', because it doesn't just alienate the audiences in 4 entire countries - it also massively undermines the suspension of disbelief.

I do like this show, but it's not one I'm itching from week to week for the next episode. Just drop them in bulk like The Bear and stop pretending you're at the same level as Succession.

So far this season, we've moved slowly into the investigation of Sazz's murder. Slowly. This episode advances the investigation, but not by much, and there were other problems. For instance, writing on this episode went downhill into a slurry of absurdity and slapstick mixed with a silly unbelievable accent, courtesy of Paul Rudd. We don't want to say we've jumped the shark yet, but this episode came close.

Also, dialog wasn't so hot in various spots. Compared with the episodes of the past few seasons, this one needed to cook a little longer. Hopefully, the next outing with our three sleuths improves on overall quality.

This episode should start with the standard:

"This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes are always wrong and only God knows the true reason this was not vetted properly before being released."

Paul Rudd's completely unnecessary and racist Irish accent entirely ruins this episode. My Irish wife and I watched the episode with our mouth agog wishing and hoping Paul Rudd would just go away.

Why he and the series producers felt the need to use this accent (it adds nothing) and why they allowed it to go ahead I do not know.

The only possible explanation is that Paul Rudd's original character is not actually dead and he's trying to fake being dead, but is terrible at accents.

The actual episode itself, I agree with other commentators, did not move the story along much and this series is moving quite slowly.

I am still enjoying series overall but the pace needs to pick up and please - no more racist accents.