September 17, 2025 • 18 mins
Every Wednesday, we share our thoughts on a newer entertainment property, and currently, that's Only Murders in the Building. The start of season 5 was uneven: The shtick dial was turned up way too high in episodes 1 and 3, but episode 2 was a lovely look at Lester's life at the Arconia. Mentioned: Tony Plana (playing the doorman who mentored Lester) as grandfather Berto on the 2017 remake of One Day at a Time.
Next Wednesday, we'll continue with season 5, episode 4, "Dirty Birds." We'll be back tomorrow with our weekly roundup.
Next Wednesday, we'll continue with season 5, episode 4, "Dirty Birds." We'll be back tomorrow with our weekly roundup.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
and let's all make like we're doing something important for
our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
a newer entertainment property, and for this week of September fifteenth,
(00:46):
we are kicking off season five of Only Murders in
the Building. For this week, we.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Watched the first three episodes since that is what Hulu
delivered to us.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, thanks a lot. We're like, we gotta watch one
episode for the podcast. Oh cool, we gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Three, but each one was like under forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I want yeah, And I'm glad though, because the first
episode I was kind of like, eh, yeah, second episode
I loved, though it didn't necessarily promote the plot. And
then the third episode was pretty good. Yeah, I it's
just been the first one. I might have been like,
you sure we want to go through another season of this?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, maybe they knew that, you know, after this, we'll
only watch one at a time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But I agree exactly with what you said.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
For the first one, I was like, I don't know, guys, like,
maybe it's maybe you reached beyond your expiration date here.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It was just like exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was like slapsticky and just kind of it just
I didn't care for it. I mean, I know we're
talking about Steve Martin here, but yeah, it just I
don't know, it seemed to be reaching. But then the
second one, which was called after You and was like
the history of Leicester, his full story, was just wonderful.
(02:06):
I loved it was you know, and you got to
see the all the characters, you know, the neighbors in
the building from over the years, including Bunny who died
in season two. I think it was yes, and you
know Jackie Hoffin's character, this is so fantastic, And yeah,
(02:30):
that was just such a such a lovely episode.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah. I really liked that. There was a lot of
people online complaining that the ages didn't match up because
Lester looked younger than everybody else at the beginning and
then he looked older than everybody else at the end.
And I don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I don't care either.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That didn't didn't I'm not I'm not watching this show
for strict believability entertain me. And it did that. Yes, yeah,
because if he the building aged him working for NICKI
aged Tim.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
If we're going to talk about believability, let's get into
episode three, when our three heroes decide they can conduct
their own autopsy on Charles's kitchen Island.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Like, yeah, poor guys, go right ahead. I think that
the podcast of it all has become a problem because
I mean, I don't think they really hardly mention it
at all in the first episode, right. The second episode,
of course, was all Lester centric, and the podcast was
only a matter of him realizing how many murders there
(03:39):
are in this building he's in charge of, and maybe
that's a bad thing, right, And the third one, they're
doing all this stuff, but okay, they got to do
this stuff on the body and get it back before
anybody knows it's been gone. But then they're recording a
podcast about the autopsy they're doing, right in Charles, how
do they put this podcast out without being immediately arrested?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I don't remember in the past the podcast them being
being about them doing illegal things necessarily, right, was it right?
So how can you have a podcast about right? They're like, anna,
wait until the whole thing is solved, put it out.
I don't know. I don't know how the podcast works anymore. Yeah, yeah,
(04:23):
and how it's number seventeen, Yeah, out of all podcasts.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right, which we learned from Beanie Feldstine, whose cuts comes
along as Nabel's acquaintance of.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Sables previously unseen and unmentioned old friend who they slipped
into the Lester episode. Yes, just so that we would
recognize her when we saw this second next time, right
along with Tim Kono. And I guess the girl who
got pushed off the building was not available for this episode.
But yeah, so, but they have to have to get
(04:54):
Beanie in there, so she's now going to be in
the penthouse. While Mabel was feeling all good about her
little studio.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Which is quite cute.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is, it is, but as a I don't know
if it's a parenting tip or just a parenting acknowledgement.
But oh, that kid that makes your kid feel inferior. Yeah,
so annoying, so annoying. I just wanted to, I don't know,
tell her to go step in there for Mabel and
(05:28):
say she's doing great. Stop acting this way. Your name
is ridiculous, and so is your outfit? And how old
are you? What is that stuff you're wearing in your hair?
You're too old for that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Look how stylish mal Mabel is looking more and more
like the fabulous Selena Gomez and that less but yeah,
she's looking very posh lately. But you know, I just
you just hate that when there's somebody who makes your
kid feel small, right, and you just want to go
(06:03):
and kick their butts, little and titled butts. But yeah,
I'm okay with one scene of that. Yeah, but I'm
okay with Beanie Feldstein being on the show. I just
don't want her doing that every single time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean she's if she's moving into the penthouse.
I feel that that was not the last.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yes, I'm sure it's not the last time. But
let's let's knock her down a few notches, right please. Yeah,
so all this time there was a dry Do we
ever know there was a dry cleaner in the Arconia?
Has that ever come up before?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This again, like there's this whole discovery not to mention
an entire you know, I'm just overlooking that the dry
cleaner people knew about the dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That didn't bother me. I mean, you know, I feel
like that's.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It just seems like it would have come up before.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Maybe, but dry cleaner run by the mob would have
come up once or twice.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But you know.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
This they discover at the end of the first episode, right, Yeah,
this casino that's in the basement that we learned in
episode three has apparently been there for one hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Years and everybody knew about it, I mean everybody, but
just not previously mentioned. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well they didn't know about it, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well Charles knew. I think Charles knew of us. I
don't know, they didn't necessarily know where it was and
how to get there. Okay, we just I don't know,
maybe it was just a story.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, But I mean I feel like this is they've
gone back to the well of like discovering. This is
now the third thing, right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Because in the first I forget if it was season
one or two, but then they discovered all those like
back tunnels, yeah, and secret hallways and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think it was one.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And then there was the whole west side of the
building from last season where Mabel now lives. And now
this like, okay, yes, you like you said, the podcast
is limiting it, and the in the building is limiting
it because they have to keep coming up with new
parts of the building that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, yes, so he's going to get killed at the
dry cleaners, but it's got to be in the building.
Oh okay, there was one there all along. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, it's like the dream of you know, you dreamed
that you opened up a random door in your house
and you've discovered a whole new, whole extra room, Like
that's only a dream that doesn't happen in real.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And this series is otherwise so factual and exactly right
down to yeah, yeah, I just got to roll with it. Yeah, yeah,
it just you do it. You do really have to
let it wash over you. But it was particularly strained
in a little bit of this. Yeah. And also I
(09:19):
wonder if to some degree just the cavalcade of guest
stars is a problem if they're having to write plots
that can accommodate people who want to be on the show.
I don't know. They have to have and they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Have to have to write out Meryl Streep though they
had to send her to New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
She'll be bad. I have a feeling she'll be bad.
But they have to make uh Nikky talk to Charles
so that Bobby kind of ally has something otherwise, because
I'm like, they they're killing him off right at the
beginn I think it was like, no, no, that never
stopped anything.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Exactly. Yeah, and they've they've introduced Now we've got Diane West,
she's Leicester's widow, and these three.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Michael Key is the mayor. Is he the mayor? Or
is he running for mayor?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Unclear?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, which makes me think there's got to be some
political plot line in this, Yeah, because I don't unless
he was just there to give a smarmy speech at
the beginning, right, Probably not right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then in the end, the end of the third episode,
they introduced the three like billionaires. Yeah, and it's rene'es Alwegger,
Christoph Waltz and who's the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Third logan Logan Luhrmann.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, so it's more than just the mob
now it's the millionaires and some in some way. And
then we haven't even talked about the whole scene of
like they went to Staten Island to meet the This
was in episode one also, which is one was not.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay episode.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She has a whole bunch of very threatening looking sons,
but they're.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Just they're just doing a podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're just doing a podcast, you know, like everybody as
one does.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Because because this is Tailioni, who's the widow that you know,
what we now learn is the widow of Nicki?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And she tells them, oh, the mob is over. You know,
that's why my boys are doing a podcast about the seventies.
I mean, do we think that she thinks that like
Nicki has hidden it all from her, or is she,
you know, just blow the smoke. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
There's a degree to which I really don't care about
this plot at all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I feel like I've somewhat cared about the plots before that.
This maybe not last season when it was one of
that was Sas. So yeah, but we're just sort of
along for the ride. Yeah, on this one, I think, yeah,
we don't know this is this the first where the
victim is somebody that nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, Lester as they know Lester, they know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's right, that's right. And I guess there's been other
dead people along the way and other seasons as well.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh well, well, like you said, I'm glad they gave
us three episodes.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes, and I hope that the remaining ones can carry
their one at a time. Yes, I mean, I don't
want to be curmudgeonally, I wish it. Well, it's still
a fun hour. I feel like there's diminishing returns and
that also so the stick knob on Martin and Martin
(13:05):
was already turned up to eleven and now it's at
about seventeen. Yeah, so this is a problem. Yeah, calm down, Fellas.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I mean there's this extended scene in the third episode
where Steve Martin ends up alone trying to return the
body to the dry cleaners and it's in this big
cart and he can't fit it behind the counter, which like, okay,
how did it get out?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How did Martin short, get it out if Steve Martin
can't get it back in. It's just like, oh, guys, come.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On, Yeah, yeah, they're just they're just more over the
top than I remember them being in the cast. And
I think it's just the we have a successful show,
everybody loves it. We're just gonna do more.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We're just gonna lean in.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
More episodes, more stick, more over the topness, more and
more and more. And that's I would have liked more
like the same, the same level, keep it on the
same level. Yeah, whatever, y'all have a good time. Seem
like you're enjoying yourselves and the the In the Lester episode,
(14:24):
the bit about him wondering why his mentor was getting
an envelope and asking about it and then down the
line being the one who's getting the envelope made me
think a parenting tip is don't ask about things, or
you will eventually get responsibility for them and then you
(14:45):
will be trapped and unable to get out. Yeah, say way,
nobody mentions it to you. Just turn away, don't ask.
Don't ask. Yeah, nothing good can come of asking. Pretend
like you don't notice the The his mentor doorman was
(15:09):
Tony Plana who was Grandpa on One Day at a
Time The New One Day at a Time.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh okay, yeah, he looked from it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And many many, many, many many other things. He's a
definite hates that guy. Right but anyway, Yeah, welcome back.
Only murders in the old we think we love. Yeah,
but do we know if this is the last season.
(15:39):
I don't think there's ever gonna be a last season.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They're just gonna quietly not do it at some point,
or someone's gonna die. Yeah, I mean in real life.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Possibly, possibly Selena Gomez will want to move on to
other things. But I don't think the two guys have
a lot on their dance cards, so this is a
good for them. Yeah, but eventually one would expect that
they would want to retire.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But oh, you know what else I noticed on this
one in watching the opening credits with a little sharper eye,
I guess I did not realize that Mike Sure's wife
was an executive producer on this JJ philbin Oh, I
didn't know that. I saw her name go by and
I said, wait a minute, isn't that And I looked
it up. Wife of Mike Sure, daughter of rugisk and
(16:31):
a TV writer and producer for many, many things, including this,
which I had not realized either. Interesting, he has a
noticeable name when it goes by. Hey, I know her.
I know of her, right, I know people who know her,
and I don't know them either, but I know who
she is. I recognize that name. There we go, Yes,
(16:54):
all right, well good for you. Yeah, so anyway, here
we go, Here we go season more of this exacting
look of how podcasts are made and produced. Maybe we
can learn something that you got to find us a
dead body, Catherine, And then.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Just like.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The problem is, we're not even in the same even
we'd have to do it over zoom be arguing about
who has to have the dead body in their personal house? Right, Yeah,
not gonna work. Yeah, well, stick to TV shows, stick
to TV.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We'll see what happens. So next Wednesday it'll be a
season five, episode four, and we'll see you tomorrow for
a weekly Roundabout roundup.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
and let's all make like we're doing something important for
our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
a newer entertainment property, and for this week of September fifteenth,
(00:46):
we are kicking off season five of Only Murders in
the Building. For this week, we.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Watched the first three episodes since that is what Hulu
delivered to us.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, thanks a lot. We're like, we gotta watch one
episode for the podcast. Oh cool, we gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Three, but each one was like under forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I want yeah, And I'm glad though, because the first
episode I was kind of like, eh, yeah, second episode
I loved, though it didn't necessarily promote the plot. And
then the third episode was pretty good. Yeah, I it's
just been the first one. I might have been like,
you sure we want to go through another season of this?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, maybe they knew that, you know, after this, we'll
only watch one at a time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But I agree exactly with what you said.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
For the first one, I was like, I don't know, guys, like,
maybe it's maybe you reached beyond your expiration date here.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It was just like exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was like slapsticky and just kind of it just
I didn't care for it. I mean, I know we're
talking about Steve Martin here, but yeah, it just I
don't know, it seemed to be reaching. But then the
second one, which was called after You and was like
the history of Leicester, his full story, was just wonderful.
(02:06):
I loved it was you know, and you got to
see the all the characters, you know, the neighbors in
the building from over the years, including Bunny who died
in season two. I think it was yes, and you
know Jackie Hoffin's character, this is so fantastic, And yeah,
(02:30):
that was just such a such a lovely episode.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah. I really liked that. There was a lot of
people online complaining that the ages didn't match up because
Lester looked younger than everybody else at the beginning and
then he looked older than everybody else at the end.
And I don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I don't care either.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That didn't didn't I'm not I'm not watching this show
for strict believability entertain me. And it did that. Yes, yeah,
because if he the building aged him working for NICKI
aged Tim.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
If we're going to talk about believability, let's get into
episode three, when our three heroes decide they can conduct
their own autopsy on Charles's kitchen Island.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Like, yeah, poor guys, go right ahead. I think that
the podcast of it all has become a problem because
I mean, I don't think they really hardly mention it
at all in the first episode, right. The second episode,
of course, was all Lester centric, and the podcast was
only a matter of him realizing how many murders there
(03:39):
are in this building he's in charge of, and maybe
that's a bad thing, right, And the third one, they're
doing all this stuff, but okay, they got to do
this stuff on the body and get it back before
anybody knows it's been gone. But then they're recording a
podcast about the autopsy they're doing, right in Charles, how
do they put this podcast out without being immediately arrested?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I don't remember in the past the podcast them being
being about them doing illegal things necessarily, right, was it right?
So how can you have a podcast about right? They're like, anna,
wait until the whole thing is solved, put it out.
I don't know. I don't know how the podcast works anymore. Yeah, yeah,
(04:23):
and how it's number seventeen, Yeah, out of all podcasts.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right, which we learned from Beanie Feldstine, whose cuts comes
along as Nabel's acquaintance of.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Sables previously unseen and unmentioned old friend who they slipped
into the Lester episode. Yes, just so that we would
recognize her when we saw this second next time, right
along with Tim Kono. And I guess the girl who
got pushed off the building was not available for this episode.
But yeah, so, but they have to have to get
(04:54):
Beanie in there, so she's now going to be in
the penthouse. While Mabel was feeling all good about her
little studio.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Which is quite cute.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is, it is, but as a I don't know
if it's a parenting tip or just a parenting acknowledgement.
But oh, that kid that makes your kid feel inferior. Yeah,
so annoying, so annoying. I just wanted to, I don't know,
tell her to go step in there for Mabel and
(05:28):
say she's doing great. Stop acting this way. Your name
is ridiculous, and so is your outfit? And how old
are you? What is that stuff you're wearing in your hair?
You're too old for that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Look how stylish mal Mabel is looking more and more
like the fabulous Selena Gomez and that less but yeah,
she's looking very posh lately. But you know, I just
you just hate that when there's somebody who makes your
kid feel small, right, and you just want to go
(06:03):
and kick their butts, little and titled butts. But yeah,
I'm okay with one scene of that. Yeah, but I'm
okay with Beanie Feldstein being on the show. I just
don't want her doing that every single time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean she's if she's moving into the penthouse.
I feel that that was not the last.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yes, I'm sure it's not the last time. But
let's let's knock her down a few notches, right please. Yeah,
so all this time there was a dry Do we
ever know there was a dry cleaner in the Arconia?
Has that ever come up before?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This again, like there's this whole discovery not to mention
an entire you know, I'm just overlooking that the dry
cleaner people knew about the dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That didn't bother me. I mean, you know, I feel
like that's.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It just seems like it would have come up before.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Maybe, but dry cleaner run by the mob would have
come up once or twice.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But you know.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
This they discover at the end of the first episode, right, Yeah,
this casino that's in the basement that we learned in
episode three has apparently been there for one hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Years and everybody knew about it, I mean everybody, but
just not previously mentioned. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well they didn't know about it, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well Charles knew. I think Charles knew of us. I
don't know, they didn't necessarily know where it was and
how to get there. Okay, we just I don't know,
maybe it was just a story.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, But I mean I feel like this is they've
gone back to the well of like discovering. This is
now the third thing, right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Because in the first I forget if it was season
one or two, but then they discovered all those like
back tunnels, yeah, and secret hallways and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think it was one.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And then there was the whole west side of the
building from last season where Mabel now lives. And now
this like, okay, yes, you like you said, the podcast
is limiting it, and the in the building is limiting
it because they have to keep coming up with new
parts of the building that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, yes, so he's going to get killed at the
dry cleaners, but it's got to be in the building.
Oh okay, there was one there all along. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, it's like the dream of you know, you dreamed
that you opened up a random door in your house
and you've discovered a whole new, whole extra room, Like
that's only a dream that doesn't happen in real.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And this series is otherwise so factual and exactly right
down to yeah, yeah, I just got to roll with it. Yeah, yeah,
it just you do it. You do really have to
let it wash over you. But it was particularly strained
in a little bit of this. Yeah. And also I
(09:19):
wonder if to some degree just the cavalcade of guest
stars is a problem if they're having to write plots
that can accommodate people who want to be on the show.
I don't know. They have to have and they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Have to have to write out Meryl Streep though they
had to send her to New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
She'll be bad. I have a feeling she'll be bad.
But they have to make uh Nikky talk to Charles
so that Bobby kind of ally has something otherwise, because
I'm like, they they're killing him off right at the
beginn I think it was like, no, no, that never
stopped anything.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Exactly. Yeah, and they've they've introduced Now we've got Diane West,
she's Leicester's widow, and these three.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Michael Key is the mayor. Is he the mayor? Or
is he running for mayor?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Unclear?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, which makes me think there's got to be some
political plot line in this, Yeah, because I don't unless
he was just there to give a smarmy speech at
the beginning, right, Probably not right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then in the end, the end of the third episode,
they introduced the three like billionaires. Yeah, and it's rene'es Alwegger,
Christoph Waltz and who's the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Third logan Logan Luhrmann.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, so it's more than just the mob
now it's the millionaires and some in some way. And
then we haven't even talked about the whole scene of
like they went to Staten Island to meet the This
was in episode one also, which is one was not.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay episode.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She has a whole bunch of very threatening looking sons,
but they're.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Just they're just doing a podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're just doing a podcast, you know, like everybody as
one does.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Because because this is Tailioni, who's the widow that you know,
what we now learn is the widow of Nicki?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And she tells them, oh, the mob is over. You know,
that's why my boys are doing a podcast about the seventies.
I mean, do we think that she thinks that like
Nicki has hidden it all from her, or is she,
you know, just blow the smoke. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
There's a degree to which I really don't care about
this plot at all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I feel like I've somewhat cared about the plots before that.
This maybe not last season when it was one of
that was Sas. So yeah, but we're just sort of
along for the ride. Yeah, on this one, I think, yeah,
we don't know this is this the first where the
victim is somebody that nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, Lester as they know Lester, they know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's right, that's right. And I guess there's been other
dead people along the way and other seasons as well.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh well, well, like you said, I'm glad they gave
us three episodes.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes, and I hope that the remaining ones can carry
their one at a time. Yes, I mean, I don't
want to be curmudgeonally, I wish it. Well, it's still
a fun hour. I feel like there's diminishing returns and
that also so the stick knob on Martin and Martin
(13:05):
was already turned up to eleven and now it's at
about seventeen. Yeah, so this is a problem. Yeah, calm down, Fellas.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I mean there's this extended scene in the third episode
where Steve Martin ends up alone trying to return the
body to the dry cleaners and it's in this big
cart and he can't fit it behind the counter, which like, okay,
how did it get out?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How did Martin short, get it out if Steve Martin
can't get it back in. It's just like, oh, guys, come.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On, Yeah, yeah, they're just they're just more over the
top than I remember them being in the cast. And
I think it's just the we have a successful show,
everybody loves it. We're just gonna do more.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We're just gonna lean in.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
More episodes, more stick, more over the topness, more and
more and more. And that's I would have liked more
like the same, the same level, keep it on the
same level. Yeah, whatever, y'all have a good time. Seem
like you're enjoying yourselves and the the In the Lester episode,
(14:24):
the bit about him wondering why his mentor was getting
an envelope and asking about it and then down the
line being the one who's getting the envelope made me
think a parenting tip is don't ask about things, or
you will eventually get responsibility for them and then you
(14:45):
will be trapped and unable to get out. Yeah, say way,
nobody mentions it to you. Just turn away, don't ask.
Don't ask. Yeah, nothing good can come of asking. Pretend
like you don't notice the The his mentor doorman was
(15:09):
Tony Plana who was Grandpa on One Day at a
Time The New One Day at a Time.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh okay, yeah, he looked from it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And many many, many, many many other things. He's a
definite hates that guy. Right but anyway, Yeah, welcome back.
Only murders in the old we think we love. Yeah,
but do we know if this is the last season.
(15:39):
I don't think there's ever gonna be a last season.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They're just gonna quietly not do it at some point,
or someone's gonna die. Yeah, I mean in real life.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Possibly, possibly Selena Gomez will want to move on to
other things. But I don't think the two guys have
a lot on their dance cards, so this is a
good for them. Yeah, but eventually one would expect that
they would want to retire.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But oh, you know what else I noticed on this
one in watching the opening credits with a little sharper eye,
I guess I did not realize that Mike Sure's wife
was an executive producer on this JJ philbin Oh, I
didn't know that. I saw her name go by and
I said, wait a minute, isn't that And I looked
it up. Wife of Mike Sure, daughter of rugisk and
(16:31):
a TV writer and producer for many, many things, including this,
which I had not realized either. Interesting, he has a
noticeable name when it goes by. Hey, I know her.
I know of her, right, I know people who know her,
and I don't know them either, but I know who
she is. I recognize that name. There we go, Yes,
(16:54):
all right, well good for you. Yeah, so anyway, here
we go, Here we go season more of this exacting
look of how podcasts are made and produced. Maybe we
can learn something that you got to find us a
dead body, Catherine, And then.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Just like.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The problem is, we're not even in the same even
we'd have to do it over zoom be arguing about
who has to have the dead body in their personal house? Right, Yeah,
not gonna work. Yeah, well, stick to TV shows, stick
to TV.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We'll see what happens. So next Wednesday it'll be a
season five, episode four, and we'll see you tomorrow for
a weekly Roundabout roundup.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
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to comment on our website at Parentingroundabout dot com.
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