The Stunt Man

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.

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.

Well Top O the Morning to you. Maybe Paul Rudd should had done an English accent, where his parents are from.

He makes a surprise return, this time as Glen Stubbins, the Irish stunt double for Ben Glenroy. Now out of a job and drunk.

All because Charles, Oliver and Mabel go to a bar called Concussions. The place for stuntmen and women. The patrons of the bar are upset that they could not give Shazz a good send off. There was no body to have a wake for her.

Charles has some clues from his dreams about Shazz. It is something to do with Paradise.

Mabel talks to the residents from the West Tower. She makes some headway on Dudenoff. It also explains how some of them can afford to live there.

It was an enjoyable episode, in an holding the fort kind of way. I did like Charles stepping in for Shazz at Concussions. Only to get a huge headache as a result.

As a Dub living in the US I have heard some atrocious so-called accents on screen and on the job site. Before today I would not have been able to name a single thing Rudd had been in but now, memorable.

Admittedly it was not as bad as THE DEVILS OWN, enough said

Love the bar, sadly the only foreign accent in A BAR is Irish. Maybe he saw Rings of Power and thought he could impress them with a nondescript accent and get a gig that pays something worth acting for?

Show is moving slowly and feels it is adding more than it can handle at the moment or more than viewers care about but it is keeping in its lane and not trying to reinvent itself which is good.

If every American movie had its main star sounding like Larry the Cable guy, looking like Meatloaf on a bad hair day and called Kermit I think people would tire of it very quickly.

Pick up a phone, call a random number in Ireland for 5 seconds and it will help create a better accent than what we heard today.

I believe Cerberus ate a mute who was 15 generations removed from Home and he belched out a better Irish accent.

I know there are accent coaches, did amazing with Gabriel Byrne on The Assassin, and sometimes Producers want an accent to sound a certain way, even if invented, but it has to stop somewhere and hopefully the next episode can be re-dubbed this weekend

Evoke.ie/2022/12/26/entertainment/worst-Irish-accents-ever.

I was only halfway through this episode when I came here to give a 4 rating, but I've returned at the end to make it a 3.

I like Paul Rudd, even through all his depictions of Ant-Man in the Marvel movies. His career will survive this depiction of an Irish stuntman body double* for his TV actor/victim from last season. But it almost shouldn't.

It's so bad that if you fast forward through his scenes, you'll still get everything you need from this episode's modest contribution to solving the mystery, and you won't lose 90% of whatever respect you have for Paul Rudd and the show's writers.

Here's a compliment for Rudd: he must be so fun to work with that the producers and writers brought him back for this throwaway role, and the director let him ham it up (I suppose the ham theme persists throughout this season).

*I understand the outrageous accent is a deliberate effort to avoid confusing us as audience that somehow the character has come back to life, a confusion that lasts maybe one second. But there are a hundred ways they could have achieved that more easily.