Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez star as three true crime obsessives who start a podcast about their investigation into the suspicious death of a man who lives in their building.
It's an interesting mix of notables behind the scenes; Steve Martin created the show and wrote the pilot with "Grace and Frankie" writer John Hoffman as a vehicle for him and Martin Short. Selena Gomez joined several months later and also serves as an executive producer. "This Is Us" creator Dan Fogelman is also along for the ride. The producing director is Jamie Babbit, the filmmaker behind But I'm a Cheerleader.
Steve Martin plays Charles-Haden Savage, who played the titular police detective in an early nineties CBS cop procedural and has lived economically but comfortably on the residuals ever since. Martin Short plays Oliver Putnam, the flamboyant Broadway director who has become unemployable after a notorious flop several years earlier. Selena Gomez plays Mabel, a young artist with deeper connections to the building and the murder victim than she is willing to share with the others. All three are deeply weird individuals in very different ways.
The show is a satire of condo life in New York City and the current fad of true crime podcasts, but it also takes the time to make its mystery twisty and turny and pulpy in ways that are genuinely engaging.
The rest of the building is populated with an incredibly deep bench of character actors, a few you'll know by name and the rest you'll probably recognize from all of the small roles they've popped up in over the years.
The first three episodes of the 10-episode season are available on Hulu now; based on those, I'll be sticking with it in the weeks to come.
It's an interesting mix of notables behind the scenes; Steve Martin created the show and wrote the pilot with "Grace and Frankie" writer John Hoffman as a vehicle for him and Martin Short. Selena Gomez joined several months later and also serves as an executive producer. "This Is Us" creator Dan Fogelman is also along for the ride. The producing director is Jamie Babbit, the filmmaker behind But I'm a Cheerleader.
Steve Martin plays Charles-Haden Savage, who played the titular police detective in an early nineties CBS cop procedural and has lived economically but comfortably on the residuals ever since. Martin Short plays Oliver Putnam, the flamboyant Broadway director who has become unemployable after a notorious flop several years earlier. Selena Gomez plays Mabel, a young artist with deeper connections to the building and the murder victim than she is willing to share with the others. All three are deeply weird individuals in very different ways.
The show is a satire of condo life in New York City and the current fad of true crime podcasts, but it also takes the time to make its mystery twisty and turny and pulpy in ways that are genuinely engaging.
The rest of the building is populated with an incredibly deep bench of character actors, a few you'll know by name and the rest you'll probably recognize from all of the small roles they've popped up in over the years.
The first three episodes of the 10-episode season are available on Hulu now; based on those, I'll be sticking with it in the weeks to come.
