Wanna hear some good news? The third season of Only Murders in the Building dropped on Hulu last week, and three episodes in, it is once again a delight. If you’re not familiar with the show, it’s essentially a cozy mystery series that somehow isn’t set in a small British village with an alarmingly high crime rate, but rather in a TREMENDOUS posh New York City apartment building called the Arconia… with an alarmingly high crime rate. The Arconia is based on (and partially filmed at) The Belnord, an actual co-op in New York, the fascinating history of which was covered in this great piece in The New York Times. (That’s a gifted link.) The Arconia has secret passages and hidden doors and a revolving cast of rich celebrities playing amusing asshole versions of themselves and every apartment in it is gloriously decorated1. I want to move in, except it seems likely I’d be murdered there.
And our hero is not Jessica Fletcher — alas, because if Angela Lansbury were still alive, she’d make a g…