This week’s Only Murders in the Building takes a documentary approach, using footage from Howard, surveillance cams, the Brothers Sisters’ Super 8 handhelds, and more. The format itself didn’t add much other than a different technical challenge — blocking, shooting, editing — but it exists in service of this season’s larger fixation on the way people are presented to the world and/or the way we watch, document, and consume them. The season opened with home video clips of Charles, Mabel, and Oliver in their youths, and has also used some of Sazz, as well as pieces of a documentary in which she appeared. Marshall Peepope began the last episode — one named “Adaptation,” after a semi-brain-bending Charlie Kaufman movie about a fictionalized version of himself — explaining how he alters his appearance to change the way he’s perceived. Zach Galifianakis’s voice-over began episode three with a discussion of acting and the art of pretense; no coincidence, he’s also one of the three stand-ins …
Everyone STAND DOWN, We Have a Dip Sighting
It's "Only Murders," episode 6, coming at you like cold hummus.
