{"id":52217,"date":"2025-09-09T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/52217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:59:08","slug":"only-murders-in-the-building-season-five-review-were-back-on-the-right-foot-after-last-years-disappointing-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/52217\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only Murders in the Building\u2019 season five review: We\u2019re back on the right foot after last year\u2019s disappointing outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhile season four felt over-stuffed with guest appearances, new episodes are firmly back in the Arconia and, hopefully, back to what the Disney+ show does best\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez are back for season five of Only Murders In The Building (Photo: Disney+)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IF only murders.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez are back for season five of Only Murders In The Building (Photo: Disney+)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last year\u2019s fourth season of Only Murders in the Building (Disney+, eps 1-3, Tuesday, September 9) could just as easily have been called Only Guest Stars in the Building, so great was the number of big-name actors involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After a promising start, it began to buckle under the strain of having to juggle so many new and returning faces, some playing themselves, some playing fictional characters, several of them surplus to requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While season four felt over-stuffed with guest appearances, new episodes are firmly back in the Arconia and, hopefully,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[1887,18,117,19,17,9162,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-52217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pat-stacey","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}