I’m officially worried about ‘just killing in the building’ season 5 after you a terrible episode of Flashback

Only murders in the building

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I will have more to say about opening three episodes only kills in the fifth season of the building, but I wanted to start discussing another episode, because I found it especially awful for several reasons. Similar spoilers.

In the finals of the season 4, as our heroes solved the killer, and the wedding dress was ringing for Olivera Putnam (Mary Streep), another body was found, Lester (Teddi Coluca) was found dead in the fountain. The morbid scene was a fair shock for our trio spade and for the audience.

It was clear from several traces in season 4 for Season 5 to be angle of Mafia, and that is explicitly at the end of the season, when Sofia Caccimelio appeared a subcaster’s offer: Find her missing husband, Nicki (Bobby Cannavale). At the end of the season 5, episode 3, let’s learn that the corner of Mob may be something of the Red Herary. The “new mafia” is a billionaire club in New York City.

In another episode, we learn how Lester is mixed in all this. It turns out that there is a secret speech below Arconia. Nicki Caccimelio took a top poker game for decades in this mysterious basement and paid Lester to play players on Saturday night at midnight. Charles (Steve Martin) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) Discover a gambling room when Charles finds a magnetic card in Nicki’s deck of the playground. He has a secret folder to it. . . I guess leads from Charles room to a secret passage in the supply closet near the goalkeeper. It’s kind of a neat discovery until you start thinking about how it is. For one thing, why would the map lead from Charles’ room? And why would Nicki even need a map? I like the tab key for a gambling room, but everything else is too stupid. They could certainly have a better way to find our hunters.

In any case, it is quite discovery and it leads to a great episode of return that leads us to the first days of Lester at work. Lester, who was born in 1948. It seems about thirty in those scenes, despite Flashback starting 32 years ago. It is very puzzling. Almost everyone in Flashback scenes look older than him. It is partly because Deage Oliver and Charles and various other characters. I’m actually okay with make-up and wigs. It’s not realistic, but it really shouldn’t be. The problem is that Lester was supposed to play a much older actor in Flashbacks. He looks younger than all in the last time, and then older than everyone in the present. It is a bizarre creative decision. Looks younger than Howard, for goodies.

The very worse is the nature of the episode itself, which is only a naked fan service in the worst case. Everyone is in Arconni, 32 years ago. Charles is on top of his game, star Hit TV shows, Brazzos. The funniest bits are when we see it talk about roles, they will certainly get, including leadership in the gladiator. He is “Delulu” for quoting Lester.

But to have everything there, rubbing the elbows and be just like unusual and weird, as always, three decades have just felt. The children’s version of Mabel meets in versions of Oliver and Charles middle years. They would be obviously aware of each other at the moment in this version of the weather strip. This does not fit in at all, how our trio actually met and became friendly years later. Remind yourself in the season 1, they are essentially nothing neither none of any none of them. Oliver and Charles both pretty kept toward themselves. They became just friends when they discovered their common interest in the real crime podcasts, which also led them to the MAILE. These three were effectively foreigners. The Flashback Episode cannot explicitly make them back in the 90s, but it seems a way they gather as friends much less credible. It’s all bizarre.

It is a fan service layered on the fan. There are islands. We see the bunny and Tim Kono, previous murders from previous seasons. Nathan Lane’s Teddy makes the look. Oh nostalgia! And yes, it seems that it worked. The fans are played about episodes at Reddit and elsewhere. I saw a lot that it has been their favorite episode so far, which I think it is so confusing. Like an episode, that’s almost nothing for the story. This would not be successfully without a nostalgia element. Let’s learn that Teddy does this page in Hastla for Nicki all these years and that’s about it.

Also, why is this secret gambling club using the front door to access your secret gambling room? It doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t they come to the side door or the back door or something? How did no one notice anyone enters the building and passed through the secret door in the storage closet in all these decades (probably much longer than 32 years)?

The three part of the season 5 premiere feels amazingly unsuccessful for me as a whole. Humor feels more forcible, like the characters (and especially oliver) are no longer real characters, but only joking jokes. The mystery feels less natural and forcibly because he feels contracted. There is a strange distance between our heroes and victims, one of which was found in dry cleaners, not appropriately. When we talk about it, the order after the discovery of Nicki’s corpse is perhaps the dumbest in the entire series. I realize it’s in the third episode, but the whole “autopsy” scene was just incredibly stupid. Treasure the bodies of the victim of the murder? Seriously? And instead of turning on it immediately (or called the police to explain that Oliver had a mental breakdown) to spend all night crossing her and even not notice the basic details like tattoos on Nicki’s chest?

The only savings here is Bobby Cannavale, which “speaks” with Charles (who sees dead people) and is pretty funny. He also looked older than young Lester and younger than Old Lester, I should mention. Anyway, I didn’t particularly entertain these episodes and I really think that there was loose threads, but I was quality, but I want them to be definitely not worried about the rest of the season. This show also matched the star is too long. Each season is more vulnerable than the last and this one is not different. I miss the season 1 when it was just a little strange that he stabbed in Arconnies, but we mostly focused on regular people of Arconia and our trio podcasting blades. It was magic, but that magic is gone.