Adaptation

This has been one of my favorite series for quite some time. It's quirky, mysterious and there's always something interesting around the corner. The highlight is of course Charles singing, the twists and turns surrounding who was culpable in season 3 and of course every moment Martin Short is on screen. Season 4 however, begins to feel as though they are running out of ideas and just adding over the top hollywood types, which is dull, poorly acted out, and extremly over done in shows and movies. I especially disliked the so called brothers, who need to take some more acting classes or at the very least rework their characters. Worst episode I've seen so far.

This is a hard review to write. Reading others responses, I can see that I'm not alone. I love this show. It's one of my all-time favourites and feel good spending time with the cast every week. However, this season something seems very off. I don't know what is wrong, what might be happening behind the scenes, that is making it so difficult for them to bring the magic back.

The best way to explain this is that it feels like a parody of the show we love. Steve Martin and Martin Short's chemistry also seems forced and not natural this season. I hope the final episodes make a huge jump in quality.

Still chock full of clever details the show keeps delivering. I'm still chuckling at the Brother Sisters gag. And now they communicate with eye movements.

There are twists and turns like there have been for the 3 previous series, and side characters take turns to become center characters. This episode was the writer and we get a dive into writer based details, with nods to legendary writers in the not well hidden Charlie Kaufman as indicated from the title.

There's still a lot going on and I have faith that all the threads will weave together to reveal a satisfying solution. There is strong talent behind the screen as well as on it and I don't take that miracle for granted. We are blessed with this fine series.

Adaptation is the name of a Charlie Kaufman movie. Marshall P Pope (Jin Ha) is a wannabe writer but his script idea has been picked up by Paramount.

Now he feels like a fraud. Marshall even dons a disguise. His movie is about the podcasters for Only Murders in the Building.

Although to Marshall's surprise. His weird behaviour and disguise, makes him a suspect to the trio.

Charles, Oliver and Mabel wonder how could the murderer had shot Chazz and cleaned up the crime scene so quickly.

It leads Charles to have a eureka moment. They are still not close to find the culprit.

The fourth episode started strongly. This was a swerve, rather self indulgent. Funny in places but it really does not fit in well.

I might be jumping to conclusions here, but I wanted to share my feelings towards this season after finishing this episode. I recently re-watched the previous seasons to remember some past moments of the show and, yes, we all know there are ridiculous moments in here, sometimes the characters and the story don't take themselves too seriously, which was a good thing to break those tension moments we had, the same can't be said about this season.

So this season feels conflictual ,which doesn't mean previous seasons didn't have below average episodes or that they wouldn't instigate some conflict into the viewer as in "where are they going with this?" but not in a good way. Yet, those previous moments were (mostly) entertaining to watch.

Now the show feels like a parody of itself, previously all the "seasoning" was well-balanced, we had the thriller, the drama, the comedy, were all mixed and each moment had its special flavour. At the moment, the shows feels like a caricature, almost as if someone that isn't supposed to meddle with the writing is trying to say what the audience wants.

Hopefully I am wrong, like how Amy Schumer dragged down season 2 whenever she was in scene, but the season got better after she was gone.