The Best Part of ‘Only Murders’: The Charmingly Bonkers Character Names
Only Murders in the Building is a good, old-fashioned murder mystery in every possible way: It’s gripping, but also oddly cozy; its tense moments are broken by witty lines that actually make you laugh out loud; its characters feel like real, fully-formed people, but they also have some of the most preposterously funny names ever uttered out loud on television.
Please see the following little blurb about the latest season to see what I mean: After solving murder of Ben Glenroy after the opening night of Death Rattle (which later became the musical, Death Rattle Dazzle), the OMITB trio, Mabel Mora, Charles-Haden Savage, and Oliver Putnam find themselves whisked off to Hollywood to meet with producer Bev Melon and formidable directing duo, the Brothers Sisters, to discuss turning their podcast into a film. Although Oliver wants to stay in LA with his girlfriend, Loretta Durkin, who is currently starring in spin-off Grey’s Anatomy: Family Burn Unit, when Charles’ stunt double, Sazz Pataki, is found dead back at their building, they have no choice but to begin season 4 of their podcast—and so begins season 4 of the show.
The names in the Only Murders universe are weird–and they're getting weirder (The Brothers Sisters! Professor Dudenoff! Bev Melon! Vince Fish! And I simply have to talk about it.