David DeLuise coming on OMITB One Killer Question (also DREW!!) gave me so much joy. I hope he gets a guest role on this upcoming season
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Ben having a “lovers spat” with a cookie because he can’t resist eating/binging it is too relatable to me. And then the heartbreaking scene of him screaming at himself in the mirror and calling himself a fucking pig. It’s actual art
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season 3 is my favourite murder because Donna and Cliff are the only ones in the show who killed out of love
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My Heart Goes Out to Martin Short and His Family
TW: Death and s**cide (not used to tagging that so once again trigger warning)
[[MORE]]TW one more time.
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Hey OMITB fandom, just wanted to give a update I found out from a friend that Martin Short lost his eldest daughter after she took her own life. Here’s an article on that.
This is a lot and I wanted to make a quick post since I know this is a heavy topic and wanted to remind fans they aren’t alone. Just a check in on how everyone is doing while also letting people know what happened.
Just a reminder to reach out to your loved ones and reach out FOR yourself as well.
Sending love and wishing only peace for their family.
And to be extra safe right now, linking the Tumblr Support post on suicide.
I hope everyone is okay. I love you all!
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I kinda wish for Jean Smart to be cast in the next season of only murders in the building and I need her character to flirt with Loretta and have Oliver be like “I get why you’re flirting with my wife, she’s amazing and pretty and smart, but stop it! she’s my wife!”
I know it’s not going to happen but it would make me so very happy
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The Year of No Murder: May
In which ASL lessons are had, a lawyer is consulted, and an antique shop is visited.
[See previous chapter.]
[See chapter one.]
One afternoon, sitting at the table at Theo’s place, they run out of things to say to each other. Reading the bored look in Mabel’s eye as her gaze wanders, Theo expects she’ll leave early. Instead, she asks him how to sign ‘takeout,’ and 'fork,’ and 'container.’
“How do you sign—?”
“Table?” he guesses, following the theme.
At her blank look, he knocks on the table twice.
She shakes her head, says something.
His lips twitch, and he scratches the table with his fingernails. “Wood?"
"Not a table,” she signs with mild exasperation. “Not wood.”
She shifts tactic and points to the empty takeout container. He gets it but is too busy barely holding in a laugh to teach her that the name of the food they ate is just fingerspelled.
“You’re right,” he signs. “This is not a table because tables are social constructs, just like the money we bought it with and the idea of ownership itself.“ By the look on her face, Mabel understands approximately nothing he’s saying, but he doesn’t care. Talking is about more then communication or being understood. "Wood is just the corpse of a tree and trees are merely a false category of plants. Plants are just molecules and molecules are just,” he pauses, “a simulation.”
She laughs, just a little, by her lip-bitten smile and the quick drop of her shoulders.
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I-just-started-s5e7-thoughts:
- I was rewatching s5e6 and it struck me how Loretta, still, always uses her own experiences as inspiration when acting, the way she used her motherhood to play the Nanny and now, having lost all her stuff in the fire, she drew on that for inspiration when talking to Lorraine.
- It’s actually about time Loretta got to be menacing on the stage in that trench coat, as opposed to the last time they shared the stage and murderer Detective Oliver sang about rattle-suffocating Nanny Loretta.
- Loretta instantly fawning over Lorraine the minute she hears she’s doing theatre and working with kids is just about as fast as I forgave her for being suspicious.
- I just noticed the eye-roll at the end of the episode. Detective Williams is so done with the trio getting themselves into the worst kind of trouble.
- Okay, now I’m starting with the new episode. Is it me or does it look like the random questionnaire guy on the street was on to something about the casino petition? Is the mayor trying to make some coin with a new casino now that the secret Arconia gambling den is closed until further notice? Could be a motive for killing the rivaling casino boss and his doorman.
- Bash cat-fishing Charles is the third time they’ve indicated Charles being gay this season.
- Great low strings in the soundtrack in this episode.
- You keep your hands off Oliver, whoever you are, you villain, or so help me, I will hunt you down and serve you for breakfast!
- Lay off my precious boy, he’s got a heart condition, he shouldn’t be running from danger in turquoise cowboy boots.
- That’s a great waistcoat on him though.
- Can you tell Oliver is my favourite?
- Just a crazy thought, but Camilla redoing Oliver’s dining room would have been a great moment to plant some kind of surveillance device there. Although the Arconia stalker, whom we haven’t heard anything about for a whole season, would already have theirs in place.
- What’s up with the map with pins in America and central Europe on the murder board? Did I just forget a whole lead or has that not been explained yet?
- There’s a question missing from the murder board. There’s supposed to be the Who, the How, the Why and the Why Now.
- I can’t stand the new dining room.
- Charles has already been slutting it up all season.
- The mayor’s two bodyguards are left standing guard in the corridor as if the Arcatacombs weren’t even a thing.
- Honestly, I don’t want teddy bear Keegan-Michael Key to be the villain. He’s just so goofy, and I’m still waiting for him to call Oliver a leprechaun as a nod to Schmigadoon. And I don’t care much for Bash, so yes, let’s focus on him for a little while, although he’s very obviously not the real killer.
- Creepy kid watching Charles making omelet spotted in the opening titles. If that’s a young Lucy, I take back the creepy.
- Nope, not Lucy, definitely not Lucy. Because why would she be creeping around behind Oliver and pouting behind Mabel. Also, now it looks like a boy. Tim Kono was about that pouty as a kid but that’s not him.
- Good boy, mayor, for feeling bad about not filling your campaign promises.
- The Death Rattle Dazzle poster in the back keeps stealing my attention. That’s still my favourite season, and it’s looking like season 5 is running for second place.
- If the mayor of New York has no power, I bet Teddy Dimas could still do something. Teddy Dimas could bring down the government.
- They really do cherish their characters on this show. I mean, the literal secondary antagonist of season 1 and primary villain of Oliver’s family life is still a fan favourite. He could run the Arconia gambling den and I wouldn’t bat an eye.
- I wonder who’s responsible for the flower arrangements in the building because that one behind a fretful cowboy Putnam is gorgeous.
- The roses in Lester’s glass cabinet have been bothering me for some reason. They’re always in sight when there’s a scene in the lobby. And how are they still fresh? There could be a clue in the cabinet.
- Aha! Now I know how they’re getting Loretta back for the last episodes. I was wondering what else could bring her back from her job in New Zealand so quickly, but if she’s having trouble getting on the right flights, chances are she’ll end up back in New York sooner rather than later. It’s most likely just airlines being airlines, but I like to think that higher powers a.k.a. billionaire Bash has his hand in sabotaging the OMitB trio’s only spouse.
- I really like Mabel’s blouse in this episode. It’s giving colourful season 2 vibes.
- Hey, Lucy lives in Connecticut! But I know it’s too much to hope that we’d get to see her.
- Charles is being very brave this season. Both in handling unexpected hugs from mayors and knife threats from billionaires.
- Bash and his kid are so uncomfortably strange, just let them stir in their creepy mansion alone.
- Jay should back off, I’m team Theo.
- I predicted this season would bring a conflict for Oliver’s loyalties, because he now has his wife to live for (not to mention his son and grandkids), and I’m actually pleased he’s looking out for himself.
- Playing board games for murderous stakes is exactly the kind of thing that had been missing from this show even though I never knew I was missing it.
- It would be so great if Mabel and Charles won the Broadway category based on Oliver’s crazy made-up Broadway celebrities stories, which he never shuts up about.
- So I’m guessing Loretta got the text about Oliver being taken against his will and immediately listed him as a missing person, and that would account for the silver alert that the people at the beginning of the episode got. I just love that Loretta was only sent a picture of his boots, she just added that he was wearing a purple scarf, knowing he would be.
- Scratch that, she wouldn’t know where Oliver was, so they couldn’t send out an alert in the right area.
- Oliver just belting out my most obscure Broadway favourite in the middle of the woods is iconic.
- I am so proud of everybody on this whole show, and myself. This was the greatest game of Celebrity I’ve seen. Who would have guessed all of Oliver’s stories would one day be put to good use? Me, that’s who. He might not have been there, but he was there in spirit. Anyway, I think if he had been there, he would have spent too long explaining a story they didn’t already know, so this way, without him there, they had a better chance of winning.
- On the other hand, why does Oliver have beef with Angela Lansbury? He admitted she was the definitive Mrs. Lovett in season 4.
- Interesting that Oliver and Loretta felt it important enough to tell Charles about the man who stopped them on the sidewalk to talk about the casino development. Then again, Oliver is known for not being great at keeping things to himself.
- I said it was the finger the moment Mabel picked the trophy up.
- Look at Charles sharing his feelings!
- Oliver arriving on the tractor and throwing that rake is the best thing to have happened this season.
- I never liked Camilla. And yes, I just realized her name is spelled Camila, but I’m sticking with my version. Out of spite.
- I’m imagining Detective Williams showing up for the finger for the second time and once again leaving empty-handed. At this point I wouldn’t blame her for doubting if there even was a finger floating around.
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The Year of No Murder: April
April is for animals, apparently.
[See previous chapter.]
Some signs come easily to Mabel, flow like ‘glitter’ from her fingers. Others take a few tries before she discovers definitively that yes, her fingers/thumbs/wrists do indeed move that way. Or at least, she can approximate the movements of the people in the online videos.
She learns the alphabet and finds herself practicing all the time. The names of objects in her apartment. Charles’ name in the elevator. Winnie’s name in her pocket, when she sees a dog who looks a lot like her at the hardware store.
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OMITB Characters and what CHB I think they would be in
Charles: Clear sighted mortal who got wrapped up in godly shenanigans (Or alternatively, Hermes)
Oliver: Dionysus
Mable: Hades or Thanatos
Howard: Aphrodite
Sazz (RIP): Hermes
Jan: Apollo
Detective Williams: Ares
Loretta: Apollo or Aphrodite
Theo: Hermes
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So I had a random Theobel thought and like the delusional devotee that I am, I now have an idea for how they could believably incorporate him into the London plot
The murder investigation inevitably gets split between pursuing leads in New York and pursuing leads in London. For whatever reason the olds can’t go to London, or at least they’re delayed, so while they’re in New York investigating, Mabel needs a buddy to go with her to investigate in London. She recruits Theo and they head off on this sidequest together. Then ofc some discount British royal gets thrown into the mix, creating a mostly parody of a Hallmark love triangle, where he clearly has a crush on Mabel and Theo is realizing that he’s kind of jealous but not wanting to admit that he is. He just doesn’t like discount royal because he’s “untrustworthy,” which creates tension between him and Mabel.
There is a ball or gala at some point where she was supposed to attend with discount royal, but something happens and Theo ends up stepping in at the last minute. They dance and sort of reconcile, etc., which is immediately followed by a dramatic chase scene through the London Underground or something. Theo almost gets run over by a train and Mabel has to save him. The olds call and she informs them of this development, and ofc like the dads they are they start panicking and either demand she come home or insist that they’re hopping on a plane this instant. After ending the call she and Theo wander around until they decide they’re hungry and end up continuing this definitely-not-a-diaster-date at a random chip shop. Maybe Theo gets kidnapped at some point and has to be saved again. Idk. Anyway Hulu lmk if you need ideas
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cinda’s case being the plot of next season of omitb means we’re getting more of tina fey on the show again!!!
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ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — 4.04 The Stunt Man
Martin Short as Oliver Putnam
Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora
