User Reviews

"Don't let yourself only love one thing, because if you only love one thing.. and then one thing goes away.. well, then you're left without nothing.. and that sucks." I felt that.

We have Mystery, we have character development, we have the story moving forward, there is feeling to it and the best of all NO. AMY. SCHUMER. (except that brief mention of her)

I wonder if we will get more episodes like this one, not necessarily flashback ones, but with more core examples of what we had on season 1, really happy with this episode!

I'd honestly watch a whole movie about the daily life of Bunny Folger. The actress is fantastic and so was this whole episode.

I'm so glad I gave this show a chance because I was really hesitant about it at first.

I dont remember much of bunny in s1 but this ep is great that it made me sympathize for her like... the writing is so good it made me so sad

"A simple act of kindness could've saved Bunny's life." I hope the next episodes are well written like this one i love it made me laugh a lot.

Never thought I'd feel bad for a character like Bunny, but i almost cried when I saw how nice and alone she actually was. Really excited for the next episode.

Really enjoyed this episode, it gives us so much more insight into Bunny and I ended up really caring for her. Now I'm really invested into this season because we got some more clues and hints as to who the killer is. Loving this season.

I was'nt into this at all, bunny's pretty awful and moody, and i find it hard to believe that anyone would call their daughter "bunny" roll on the next episode please........i think Martin short may be cuter than selena gomez.... I'm usually a fan of this show.

I recently saw Steve Martin and Martin Short (and fireworks) at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Their banter, their easy camaraderie, was delightful. I've rarely laughed so hard. Their friendship and casual one-upmanship translate so beautifully in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING.

Selena Gomez is not the most versatile actor around, but she adds a droll charm to the podcasting trio.

And this episode was especially interesting, as a parrot led into a recreation of Bunny Folger's last day. Insight into a side character--very illuminating and unexpected.

But I really want to yell at all the user/reviewers here who are trashing Amy Schumer. Stars and celebrities take cameo guest-starring roles as themselves in order to poke fun at themselves. They play rude, selfish or arrogant, tasteless or asinine. THEY ARE ACTING.

Sure, Schumer may be a real piece of work in real life; I don't know--but here, her transparent greediness and lack of insight is SATIRICAL. This is not the real her.

So quit bitching!

It's nice that we get to see the human side of the old woman who died violently. It turns out she was generous and approachable, even though she ruled the building with an iron fist. We see her encounters with people on the street.

Now THIS is The Only Murders Show I know and love! The show beautiful gives us an insight into the character of Bunny Folger, one that we never got in the first season. This episode was such a wonderful watch from the storyline to the tie-ins with the podcast and the humorous moments. Hopefully the rest of the season follows this same trajectory and doesn't see the same downfalls as the previous episode.

The best episode of the season so far, 'The Last Day of Bunny Folger' accomplishes a lot in its thirty-one minute of running time. For one, it reminds the viewers of the days when the main trio - Mabel, Charles, and Oliver - were relative strangers to us and each other. Back then, Oliver came across as a washed-up producer with a tendency to overshare, Charles could barely hold a meaningful conversation with anyone, and Mabel would be carelessly rude and judgemental. Of course, all of that still applies but, somewhere along the way, we saw that there was more to those characters and began to care for them. Bunny Folger never got that expanded treatment - until now.

Jayne Houdyshell plays the part of the cantankerous, caring, opinionated, resourceful, pedantic, hard-working, blunt, and unexpectedly generous character beautifully. We get to spend a day in Bunny's world, and much of it centres on the Arconia and, by extension, New York. Bunny had a closer relationship with the staff at her local diner than she had with her family, and her only truly intimate engagement seems to have been with the Arconia herself. Neither fact is presented as tragic - but the latter could have contributed to Bunny's untimely demise.

As far as the crime investigation goes, the episode proposes two obvious suspects: Nina, the new chair of the board, and the mysterious caller, who contacted Bunny on her mobile and was unceremoniously told off for that. Given that the first series gradually revealed the Dimas and Jan as criminals with entirely unconnected motives and modi operandi, it is possible more than one person is involved this time around, too.

Emotionally, this is a bitter-sweet segment: while Bunny's character is shown to have more depth, there is no reward for her. 'We at Only Murders did not kill Bunny Folger. But there's a chance we could have saved her life with a simple act of kindness.'

Guys does it not bother anyone else that the scene shows bunny closing the door ACROSS the hall from Mabel's apartment when we are made to believe her apartment is beside hers?? The vent that goes directly into bunny's apartment etc. Am I missing something??

Don't get me wrong this show has me hooked....just that one weird detail.....

This was a good episode. If Bunny Folger was a foul mouth harridan with an even more potty mouthed bird.

This episode retracing Bunny's last day, humanizes her. Emphasising her devotion to the Arconia building and her loneliness.

It was due to be her last day as the building board president. Nina Lin is taking over but Bunny has second thoughts. She discovers that Nina has other ideas and wants to monetize the building.

Over the course of the day, her paths crosses with Charles, Oliver and Mabel.

At one point the trio realise that if they had been nicer to Bunny, she would still be alive.

I liked this episode, it gives a more back story to Bunny. There are more suspects and it does not need the gimmick of the special guest cameos.

I trashed the last 2 episodes in my reviews. However, this was a good episode. The writing was tight and focused on the main theme and did not try to be stupidly funny. Interestingly enough, I even enjoyed the Mabel character. Let's hope the remaining episodes are just as good.

This episode was really, really dull, up until the last 5 to 10 minutes or so. Flashback was always going to be a risk, and unfortunately turned out to be a real disappointment I'm afraid to say. This episode took a long time to say very little. Wallowing around in the overarching unpleasantness in Bunny's character, and in others' too. Very pedestrian directing, writing and pacing. Because of that, the humour was muted and pathos blunted.

We have been plodding, plodding along in this lacklustre season. Had been such a fan of this series previously, but there is little true intrigue, nor any sense of urgency, this time round.

Only Murders in the Building understands that perspective is especially important to its storytelling. Theo Dimas (James Caverly) got an episode told through his eyes in the first season, a high point for the show that gave the audience a way for a deaf character to shed some light on the murder investigation. Theo ended up being only a small part of the mystery's final outcome, but it was a brilliant way for us to think about what was happening in the lives of the suspects outside of what Charles, Mabel, and Oliver could see. The show takes a similar approach in this week's affairs when we get to live out the final day of Bunny Folger's life right alongside her. The eerie part of the narrative is obviously that we know her demise is close, but she thinks the day is important for an entirely different reason. Bunny plans to retire and give the keys to the Arconia to Nina Lin (Christine Ko), a woman who resident gossiper Howard (Michael Cyril Creighton) says is an even bigger bitch than Bunny. But what makes Nina such a central figure besides this one-off claim from Howard? We know that she does actually get the job after Bunny was murdered, but the fact that she was already in line to get the position regardless of Bunny's fate points to an obvious assumption: Nina just might be the prime suspect in the killing of her former mentor. If Bunny was going to retire, why would Nina have to whack her to take the throne? Because as Bunny lives out her personal finale, she gets more and more melancholy about the prospects of giving up her power. The Arconia means a lot to Bunny. It's been in her family for decades, and seeing someone else get to make the decisions for the building's residents is something that she just can't imagine relinquishing. And while Charles, Mabel, Oliver, and everyone else in the apartment made off-the-cuff remarks about Bunny's personality throughout the first season, that simple change of perspective that we talked about before gives us reason to believe that Bunny is actually not so bad after all. Her passion and loyalty to those she serves is misconstrued, much the same way a strict parent or a stern teacher is taken for granted. Only Murders in the Building has done a fantastic job at recognizing this through satirical humor and by flipping traditional mystery genre tropes on their heads. Bringing Bunny to life with hardly any screentime from the three main characters is something that is both daring and risky, but the show manages to pull it off seamlessly. The end of the episode fuses the two perspectives together when it's revealed that Bunny came to visit the main trio just moments before her death to give them some champagne. Remember that Charles, Mabel, and Oliver were celebrating the comeuppance of Jan (Amy Ryan) at this time in last season's finale. When the crew takes Bunny's gift and leaves her hanging outside, never thinking to invite her in to join the festivities, we see how thankless her job really was. The three immediately feel guilty when they hear her cries of depression outside their door, a moment that is punctuated with one of Martin Short's funniest lines of the series so far.

A great star turn as Bunny by Jayne Houdysell. Glad the writers came back to her character and allowed it to be rounded out. It was also fun to see the building against the backdrop of the recent NYT story on the real Belnord.