Is Paul Rudd Going to Be on 'Only Murders in the Building?' Everything We Know About Season 2, Including the New Trailer!
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Now that we know who killed Tim Kono (spoilers ahead!), the rabid fan base of amateur sleuths who devoured Season 1 of Hulu's 2021 hit Only Murders in the Building are eager to dive into Season 2. Well, great news: Another season is coming soon, and its first trailer has already arrived!
It was confirmed in September 2021 that the series—which follows true-crime podcast junkies Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steve Martin) as they investigate a death in their Upper West Side building, the Arconia—will be getting a second season. The Season 1 finale tied up most of its loose ends in a satisfying and also salacious way, with another Arconia resident meeting a grisly fate. So what's in store for our trio of intergenerational snoops and when might we see them back on the case? Find out everything we know so far aboutOnly Murders In The Building Season 2—including the release date, first trailer, cast additions and more.
When is Only Murders In The Building Season 2 coming out?
Good news for Only Murders fans! In a video released to Hulu's social channels, Gomez, Short and Martin announced that Season 2 of Only Murders In the Building will premiere on June 28, 2022. The clip shows the stars in the now-iconic Arconia elevator. The announcement is essentially an adorable blooper reel, and the trio never actually gets to say the release date themselves—that comes from a text card at the end! As with most Hulu programming, the series premiere will drop at midnight. Like Season 1, episodes will be released on Tuesdays, though it is not clear how many episodes will be released on the premiere day.
Is there an Only Murders In the Building Season 2 trailer?
A trailer for Season 2 of Only Murders In the Building dropped late on Sunday, March 27, 2022. The trailer opens with Oliver, Charles and Mabel recording a new episode of their podcast. Charles opens with, "New York City: Who doesn't want to be the talk of town here?" Oliver says with a mix of mystery, ruefulness and intrigue, "We've been warned not to speak out," with Mabel quipping, "But we here at Only Murders In the Building—we will not be going quietly."
The trailer shows various super-short snippets of scenes, including a shot of Teddy; Mabel breaking through police caution tape; Mabel and Delevingne's characters giving each other side-eye; Schumer's character making a grand entrance through double doors and a shot of a huge knife being unsheathed. In another scene, Oliver tells Charles, "Just be cool." When Charles replies, "Who's cooler than me?" Mabel, incredulous, tells him, "Everyone!"
A second trailer dropped on May 17, 2022, featuring Cara Delevingneand Amy Schumer, as well as Michael Rapaport, who opens the clip by interrogating Mabel, Charles and Oliver. The trio embark on a second season of their podcast, even as they're being actively investigated—and framed—for the murder of Bunny.
Who is in the cast for Only Murders In The Building Season 2?
We know that can expect Martin, Short and Gomez will reprise their respective starring roles as Charles, Oliver, and Mabel; Hoffman confirmed in an interview with the blog Queerty that "they are coming back."
Tina Fey will also likely return as podcaster Cinda Canning, and Hoffman told Deadline that Sazz Pataki, Charles' stunt double hilariously played by JaneLynch, should also resurface in Season 2—and that the whole Brazzos backstory may come back in a unique, new way. "I can’t imagine a world where Sazz isn’t part of our group going forward," says Hoffman. "I will say that Brazzos will not live in the past always. Some version of Brazzos will live on in an old part of the building."
As far as new cast members, it was reported in January 2022 that Amy Schumer and Shirley MacLaine have both joined OMITB for its second installment—and that Nathan Lane will return to reprise his role as Arconia resident-turned-inmate Teddy Dimas. Plus, Deadline says that British model/actress Cara Delevingne is on board for Season 2. Michael Rapaportwill also appear in the sophomore season as Detective Kreps, who investigates Bunny's murder.
The latest casting rumor? Paul Rudd may have a part to play in Season 2 as well! A cast pic that started circulating online in lat March shows him smiling for the camera alongside Short, Martin, Gomez, Fey, Rapaport and more.
What happens in Only Murders In The Building Season 2?
Series co-creator Hoffman told E! News in September 2021—before Season 2 was officially given the green light—that Fey's appearance in Episode 4, "The Sting," was a tease for Season 2.
That episode featured a flash-forward from Cinda, who tells her listeners, "'What happens when your second chance becomes your last shot' is a line of dialogue from Brazzos, Episode 713, which prophesied what would happen 15 years later, when a fake detective decided to become a real one. When he and his true-crime fan buddies took a second chance, and become the subject of our next investigation."
We can also expect to see other Arconia residents, as 20th Television president Karey Burke told Deadline, "Thanks to the incredible audience response, we are so happy to say there will be more murders in the building—which is great news for everyone, except perhaps the residents of the Arconia."
Hoffman added, "[Charles, Mabel, and Oliver] have to reckon with their relationship with Bunny in the days prior to what happens at the end of the season and there’s a lot that went down. Mabel said some unkind things about her outside of the Arconia. Oliver had a long history of conflict with Bunny. And Charles was deeply offended at the idea of being evicted by her after 30 years. There's all that plus their connection to true crime and their respective histories which we will learn more about. There's a lot there we start peeling back that’s built around what happened at the end of Season 1 and leading into 2. It gets more complicated and more fun in weird ways. It also puts pressure on them to solve the case."
As far as the murder, there will be only one per season. Hoffman explained the reasoning for that: "It's important that the reality of our characters' lives and the mystery itself is surrounding one key murder a season. I'm proud of, from Season 1, the fact that all of the dimensions we found around the death of Tim Kono. I think it's important that with these stories, also for a comedy, to remind us that we're talking about one life and how that life touched a lot of lives and we show it in a big way and a lot of different ways." He continued, "Nothing, hopefully, is painted in just one color around the victims on our show. That's part of the mysteries yet to be unpeeled as well. I like taking the time to honor the life in certain ways and finding the compelling reasons to go deeper and put yourself at more risk to find out what really happened. That takes a little time and it keeps us grounded in reality, which is important for the comedy and the drama that we play."
Will Mabel and Oscar continue exploring the romantic connection between them in Season 2? That's another possibility, Hoffman has said. "I think it’s a really complicated relationship that he and Mabel have and it’s going to be interesting to see where it goes. It’s born out of tragedy or around a time of great tragedy for both of them," he explained to Deadline. "There are certain dreams they both have that they recognize who they are together, but I think they have work to do to understand exactly who they are and if they’re meant to be together."
What happened in the Only Murders In The Building finale?
(Warning: Again, major Only Murders in the Building Season 1 finale spoilers ahead!)
The Season 1 finale of Only Murders In The Building confirmed that bassoonist and building resident Jan (Amy Ryan)killed Tim Kono.
In the Episode 10 introduction, it's revealed that Tim Kono had dated Jan, but he dumped her, which she clearly didn't take well. After their breakup, she invited him to her apartment on the Arconia's sixth floor for a drink—which turned out to be poisoned—and to pick up some personal effects she insisted he'd left there. Before the poison fully kicked in, Tim took a garbage bag of belongings (in which she'd planted falsified suicide notes and tossed their cocktail glasses) and went back to his own apartment on the ninth floor. (Remember, the first time we see Tim, he's getting on the elevator on 6 and getting off on 9 with a garbage bag in his hands.) She eventually pulled the building's fire alarm and went to his apartment; while the poison had left him paralyzed and unable to move or speak, she put a gun in his hands (hers were gloved) and staged his suicide.
At the start of Episode 10, Jan confronts Charles at his apartment—presumably to explain why she lied about not being first chair. They have drinks together (out of a pair of cocktail glasses that look just like the ones found in that garbage bag). Charles told her Mabel and Oliver suspected her of being the murderer—but that he was also falling in love with her. She confesses to poisoning Tim (but says the cat, Evelyn, was poisoned by accident when she licked Tim's blood off the floor and likely came in through the window after the murder).
Charles reveals that he knew she was the killer by how she composed her "Js" in the handwritten notes she left him, which match those on the suicide note and the threatening letters left by the killer. She then reveals that she poisoned Charles' handkerchief and not just his drink, and the poison begins to kick in.
As all of this is going on, Mabel and Oliver are in Jan's apartment, where Mabel finds a knife in an air conditioning vent, revealing that Jan stabbed herself a couple episode prior. Mabel also finds the stolen emerald ring, which Jan had found at Tim's apartment on the night she killed him and taken with her.
Luckily, throughout all of that, Charles recorded Jan's confession on his phone—including the part where she confesses to having to kill Mabel and Oliver, saying it would be "a gas."
Mabel and Oliver leave Jan's apartment just in time and find a severely debilitated Charles in the lobby (after a series of goofy-fun elevator hijinks). Oliver and Mabel wheel Charles down to the boiler room (strapped to Winnie's stroller), where they race to turn off the gas. Jan appears with a gun, but Mabel knocks Jan out.
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In the next scene, Jan is arrested and Charles is hospitalized. Mabel, Oliver and Charles are also freed from their eviction, with Mabel sneering at Bunny that she's now the most hated person in the Arconia.
Finally, we see that Mabel painted a mural of the building and its residents (akin to the animation in the opening credits) in her apartment and bonds with Oscar; Oliver bonds with his son, and Charles texts Lucy. Later, the trio celebrates their sleuthing success with champagne on their rooftop. Mabel goes to get another bottle from her apartment, and shortly afterward, sirens and texts from an unknown number warn Oliver and Charles, who are still on the roof, to get out of the building. They go to find Mabel in her apartment. She is covered in blood, and their landlady Bunny appears to have been stabbed with Mabel's knitting needle while wearing one of Oliver's Only Murders in the Building tie-dye hoodies.
Charles, Oliver and Mabel are taken out of the Arconia in handcuffs. Cinda Canning and her assistant are outside among the Arconia's residents with their recording equipment and Cinda muses that this will all make for another great podcast. She then steals her assistant's suggestion for a title: "Only Murderers in the Building."
Has Only Murders In The Building been renewed?
Only Murders In The Building will be back on Hulu for a second season! (See below to find out when.)
"Everyone in our amazing Building worked with such love and expertise through extraordinary times—and with incredible support from Disney, Hulu and 20th TV—to create a first season that might live up to our legendary cast, our beloved New York City, and to make a show about connection," series co-creator and executive producer John Hoffmansaid in a statement back in mid-September. "To feel we've connected with our audience and hit the mark enough already to have the chance to continue—and to carry on our show's wild ride of mystery-comedy-empathy—is too exciting for words. So I'll shut up now—and just say a huge thanks to all and I can't wait for more!"
Has Only Murders In The Building been canceled?
Nope! The series' first season proved to be a strong performer for Hulu (at one point, it was the platform's most-streamed original series), so Only Murders In The Building will be back for Season 2,. However, with Season 1's Tim Kono murder having been brought to a distinct close, that case is presumably now solved and put to bed for good.
When does Only Murders in the Building start shooting Season 2?
Hoffman revealed in late 2021 that Only Murders' next season was slated to shooting "by the end of the year."
And in fact, Short said in January 2022, "Before Christmas, [I shot scenes with] Shirley MacLaine and Amy Schumer," according to Deadline. So filming is well underway!
How to watch Only Murders In The Building
You can stream all 10 episodes of Season 1 of Only Murders In The Building exclusively on Hulu. The first episode of Season 2 dropped on June 28, 2022, with subsequent episodes being released every Tuesday.
