Meryl Streep Steals the Spotlight in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic Meryl Streep has taken on some transformative roles in her time, but in the third season of “Only Murders in the Building,” the star takes on her biggest stretch yet.
In her return to serialized TV, Streep plays Loretta, an actress without a scrap of Streep’s acclaim or success. It’s a part that pushes her limits as a performer, and the audience’s ability to suspend our disbelief.
Loretta is a member of the ensemble cast for “Death Rattle,” a baby-centric murder mystery that’s meant to mark the Broadway redemption for disgraced stage-director-turned-true-crime-podcaster Oliver Putnam (Martin Short).
In last season’s finale, leading man Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) appeared to drop dead onstage, setting the plot for Oliver and his pal Charles-Haden Savage (the former TV actor played by Steve Martin) to once again team up with their millennial neighbor Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) and investigate the case in real time for their thousands of podcast fans. “You lucky bitch!” seethes Cinda Canning (Tina Fey), the audio maven who’s now reinvented herself as a wellness type in Arianna Huffington drag. “It’s like these murders just fall in your lap!” In this new season, the Hulu comedy seems conscious of managing the transition from breakout hit to consistent comfort.
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