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Hulu's comedy whodunnit Only Murders in the Building is finally back, and season 2's murder investigation is moving quickly. After Arconian board president Bunny's cliffhanger death, Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Sheen), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) are persons of interest, with the two-part premiere revealing that they're being framed for the crime. The trio now has to clear their names while unravelling the inner workings and mysteries of the historic building.
Like any great true-crime mystery, there are several threads to follow in the show's plot, and everyone living in the Arconian is yet again a suspect. That means we have all of our season 1 faves to keep track off, plus new additions to the star-studded cast. Read on to see our list of suspects, as we follow along with the winding investigation.
The biggest answer that we get in the season's first episode is that Mabel did not kill Bunny. Though she tells Detectives Williams (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) and Kreps (Michael Rapaport) that she can't recall what happened in her apartment, we see in flashbacks that Bunny was already bleeding with the needle sticking out of her chest when Mabel walked in. Both the needle and Bunny's painting have planted to frame our main trio for the murder.
Though the audience knows it wasn't Mabel, it's going to be hard for her, Charles, and Oliver to prove that to the cops. The detectives say there was a separate murder weapon, a knife, but it's now missing. Since Mabel found Bunny alive, the real murderer was in the apartment right before she got home. She could even have seen them, and hopefully by the end of the season she'll regain her memory of the incident and clear her name. For now, as Detective Kreps says, there's more holes in Mabel's story than the eight holes in the victim (yikes).
Bunny's BFF seems to be busy taking care of the deceased's estate in the first two episodes, from appraising the million-dollar erotic painting to finding a home for her parrot, Mrs. Gambolini. At the wake for Arconian residents, the curmudgeon is still Bunny's passionate defender and thinks Charles, Oliver, and Mabel probably did it. If she's involved in the murder, that's a very impressive poker face, especially in front of Bunny's glamorous mother (played by screen legend Shirley MacLaine).
The Arconian's resident cat lover was a suspect to watch in the last murder, and there's something about his behavior where we can't entirely write him off for this crime either. His doorway conversation with Charles in season 2 was slightly ominous, and he's probably lying about how he got that suspicious black eye. (Unless playing hide-and-seek with a cat really is that dangerous.) We'll have to see more of him, but I'm wondering whether there was something sinister within his friendship with Bunny.
Co-op board politics wait for no man. Bunny already has a replacement, as hedge fund manager Nina introduces herself and announces her presidency during her predecessor's wake. Howard doesn't have nice words for the expectant mother, with him telling the trio, "If you thought Bunny was a bitch, wait 'til you get a load of this one." We've yet to meet Nina in her own words, but she's worth keeping an eye on.
These fan-favorite characters are unfortunately missing in action during the first two episodes. Jan has an excuse, seeing that she's in jail for killing Tim Kono. She was also arrested prior to Bunny's murder, so she couldn't have done it. As for Oscar, there's no hint of his involvement in the crime, and apparently he and Mabel are already over. She tells Oliver that though "the trauma bond is strong," their relationship only lasted the length of all the Tim Kono drama. Hopefully our Tie-Dye Guy is off living a chill life somewhere in the tri-state area.
New character Alice is an artist who reaches out to the podcaster amid "Bloody Mabel's" fifteen minutes of infamy. She invites Mabel to a swanky gallery opening and they hit it off pretty quickly, with Mabel hoping to establish herself as an artist and start a life away from death. Alice's DM seems completely out of the blue, like Mabel's painting could've popped up in her Explore page, but it's some pretty shady timing. It's hard not to question whether there's ulterior motives, Bunny-related or not.
The two-part premiere sets up the war of the true-crime podcasts, as Cinda follows through on her show covering Charles, Oliver, and Mabel as the most-likely killers. She and her assistant Poppy are digging through the trios' pasts using their format, while the hosts of "Only Murders" season 2 are focused on clearing their own names. Cinda's "Only Murderers" podcast is a serious invasion of privacy, but not a crime. She's also very low on the Bunny murder suspect list.
Previous tenant Sting has vacated the Arconian's penthouse, and the new celeb moving in is none other than Amy Schumer, who's a fan of the trio's podcast. The newfound fan of "murder...podcasts, murder podcasts" is even interested in adapting the show for the screen, and she quickly wins over showman Oliver. It's a fun role, but she's definitely more of a side plot than a suspect. Her quick run-in with the fake painting is probably the last of her involvement with the case. (If not, that would be a major twist!)
