Only Murders In The Building - Season 1 May 2026

In the golden age of streaming, where television shows often blur into the background noise of endless scrolling, sometimes a series arrives that demands you put down your phone, lean in, and press play. Only Murders in the Building - Season 1 was that series. Premiering on Hulu (and Disney+ internationally) in August 2021, the show did something remarkable: it took the grim, exploitative edge of the true crime genre and wrapped it in a cozy, warm-hearted blanket of absurdist comedy and genuine New York melancholy.

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With whip-smart dialogue, stunning production design, and a trio whose chemistry feels instantly lived-in, this season set the bar for streaming crime-comedy so high that it will take a fall from a seventh-floor Arconia window to come close. Only Murders in the Building - Season 1

Oliver’s obsession with sound design (recording the "foley" of dips and knitting needles) parodies the high production values of Serial . Charles’s hyper-analysis of people’s behavior mimics the fan who thinks they can solve a case based on a vocal fry. The show even features a scene where the trio discovers "the fandom" has found their podcast, leading to subreddit threads and obsessive fan art inside the show. In the golden age of streaming, where television

The series introduced a brilliant meta twist: . Tina Fey plays a smug, ridiculously successful podcast host (a clear send-up of Sarah Koenig or Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers), serving as the antagonist the trio hopes to dethrone. It’s a commentary on the commodification of tragedy—but it never feels mean, because the show recognizes that we are all Cinda Canning. Why Season 1 Stands Above the Rest While the subsequent seasons (S2’s painting mystery and S3’s Broadway whodunit starring Meryl Streep) have their merits, Season 1 remains the magnum opus for a specific reason: Intimacy . Streaming now on Hulu and Disney+