{"id":56101,"date":"2025-08-09T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56101\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:08:08","slug":"only-murders-in-the-building-showrunner-teases-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56101\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Murders In The Building showrunner teases season 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only Murders In The Building is really going to go there this season and get a little current and topical. In a new interview<\/a> ostensibly with Martin Short, Deadline catches Hoffmann just kind of hanging out at Short\u2019s house (no, seriously), from where he teases a \u201cvery different\u201d fifth season. \u201cWe\u2019re going straight into a New York story that\u2019s happening very much currently,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s also happening across the country, obviously, but also in the city itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

We know very little about\u00a0Only Murders In The Building\u2018s fifth season so far, except that it will explore the fourth season finale\u2019s cliffhanger death<\/a> (Lester the doorman, played by Teddy Coluca) and feature a range of guest stars including Keegan-Michael Key, Christoph Waltz, Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/a>, Logan Lerman, Jermaine Fowler, Bobby Cannavale, Dianne Wiest, and Beanie Feldstein. (Short says potential guest stars are run past himself, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez: \u201cIf they suggested someone that I either personally hated or professionally hated, that vote would go a long way. It wouldn\u2019t work.\u201d) Te\u00e1 Leoni will also reprise her role as Sofia Caccimelio from the fourth season finale, a character that appears to have mafia ties. According to the season synopsis from Hulu, the podcasters\u2019 investigation \u201cplunges them into the shadowy corners of New York and beyond\u2014where the trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires, old-school mobsters and the mysterious residents of the Arconia. The trio discovers a deeper divide between their storied city they thought they knew and the new New York evolving around them\u2014one where the old mob fights to hold on as newer, even more dangerous players emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Easy to see some relevant parallels to our world today, given that the country is run by an old-school New York City real estate tycoon with alleged connections to organized crime<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re pulling from the headlines to ask very specific questions about the balance of power in New York and who has that power,\u201d Hoffmann tells Deadline. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re really looking at\u2014the shifting power dynamics of the country. And what\u2019s really fun about it, the comedic side of it, is that the history of power in New York is pretty colorful, with the old mob and the new mob mixing in. What do those two look like, and how do they sit on either side, with our trio in the center of it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking with The Wrap<\/a> last year, Hoffmann teased that the story the Only Murders In The Building writers wanted to tell about power in NYC became relevant \u201cin ways that honestly we couldn\u2019t have even predicted. We built our story and then certain things revealed themselves, and vice versa. We found out certain things, we were hearing whispers about certain things and it\u2019s a little bit more reflective, deeply New York, both historically and the modern New York right now too.\u201d He added, \u201cThe show has always been classic meets modern. So that is carried through again in a very, very big way within the next season. Another wildly funny world for our group to get thrown into is all I will say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only Murders In The Building somehow manages to get more A-list<\/a>Christoph Waltz to lend Only Murders In The Building some menace, presumably<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only Murders In The Building is really going to go there this season and get a little current…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-56101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}