I loved the humour and the warmth you feel watching the characters interact. Our "detectives" are an odd ensemble of very different personalities, all of them keeping their painful past experiences secret from one another, but as they are bound together by the mystery they are trying to solve, they end up helping each other heal. I feel this series really could have been a 10/10 if only... well, if only the actual crime mystery was a bit more compelling.

The rare combination of warmth and comedy with crime brings to mind the film Knives Out. And it's not a favourable comparison to Only Murders in the Building, in my opinion. Whereas Knives Out was an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit where everyone was a suspect for the greater part of it, Only Murders in the Building dumbs the mystery down by tackling only one piece of the puzzle at a time and mostly resolving it before introducing another lead, resulting in a structure that's rather linear and not particularly stimulating to the viewer's brain cells. Regardless, I am looking forward to the second season; if it improves on this one aspect, the show may become something really great!