2023-08-29 07:52:39
ALBERTO KING
Updated Tuesday, August 29, 2023 – 07:52
He knows that realism is not his thing: the pride of this superb series consists in being light and inconsequential
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It may be that being humble helps you go far in life. Certainly not in the entertainment industry. George Clooney is not humble, James Cameron is not humble, Meryl Streep is not humble. We know this last thing because she has taken tributes and award nominations for a long time as what in her case they are: I am the best and I deserve this and more. That’s why the third season of Only Murders in the Building begins with her playing a yet-to-be-discovered actress is doubly funny: the show knows that Meryl is well-discovered, Meryl knows that the show knows, etc, etc.
Taking everything seriously may help you go far in life. Certainly not in a TV sitcom. Rockefeller Plaza was not taken seriously, The Golden Girls was not taken seriously, and Only Murders in the Building was not taken seriously. The series, which can be seen in Spain on Disney+, knows that realism is not his thing. Nobody has asked him, besides. His crazy New York Cluedo is both a game and a human zoo. Only murders in the building knows what series it is and, above all, knows how to be it. He is well aware that his premise, halfway between Murder, She Wrote and Veronica Mars, can only be sustained from total imposture. Two of its protagonists are people from show business and in its third season everything revolves around a theatrical production that, in another attack of non-humility, already fed us at the end of the second.
Only murders in the building is, never better said, a huge show.
But back to Meryl. The Streep does very little television and the jobs he chooses in that medium do not give clues about what moves him to choose them. That’s right: choose the one you choose, that project will be The Chosen One. Thus his participation in the second (and unsuccessful) season of Big Little Lies was sold. Evidently, Murders in the Building Only has actively promoted the signing of Streep. However, she has also considered it completely logical. Who better than her to play Loretta, The gifted actress who doesn’t find her big break until she’s 70? Another (more humble) show wouldn’t dare verbalize this, but I have no doubt that in meetings with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, the three leads and executive producers of Murders Only in the Building, the words “Meryl Streep” were pronounced matter-of-factly.
There are very few series right now capable of supporting the overwhelming presence of an icon like her. For better and for worse, Meryl Streep engulfs the scenes. She is almost always an inside joke, a meta-comment, an irony. That’s why it’s perfect for the series by Martin, Short and Gomez. Although it comes out quite a bit. It is evident that the shooting schedules of Fictions-With-Meryl (I propose that this be a separate genre) are structured around your availability and preferences. In return, the best actress alive gives you brags like that display of different accents (again: meta-joke), proof that she sings better than in Mamma Ma, and the hint that we’ll see her hooking up with Martin Short. Only murders in the building is the series in which that happens and it does not call our attention. The pride of this superb series consists in being so light and inconsequential. His new installment opens with an episode that contains a choral scene at the level of that of The Avengers: Endgame. The timing would only be more perfect if Meryl Streep’s character made a comment like the one in my previous sentence.
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