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If you are willing to give a little suspension of disbelief to the show (mabel and theo ease of communication) the show works well in developing them, it really got me how they put themselves out and broke free.... specially mabel confronting her past (little bit of personal connection there). The detective with our comedic duo was a little too goofy for me but the bit with Oliver the baby and the chorus line is gold.

Waiting for the next ep!

I thought this was probably the best episode of the season, and one of the best of the series. It was meaningful, not too busy, and was well done. My only gripe is that Mabel somehow learned to read sign language in an afternoon.

Outstanding pacing and crisp dialogue. The whole trip with Theo is quite wonderful. That actor does so much with his face, expressing his loneliness. He wants love so bad which his father has denied him through his nefarious actions. We get a look into Mabel's world and her relationship with her father. And at some point a huge weight is lifted. I also loved the scene where the guys go into the bathroom with the police lady outside. And we have a true cliffhanger at the end, showing that the adversary is indeed formidable.

Every episode I remark how well produced, written and acted this show is. Flipping the Pieces is a masterpiece episode. Superb performances by all of the actors.

I'll be honest. Season 2 of Only Murders is turning out to be not as good as the first. However, there have been gems that I come back to, one of them being this episode. I love how everything seems to come together in this episode, and I also love the development we get between Mabel and Theo Dimas. There are so many moments between the two that just make me love both characters. The writers really nailed this episode. I rate this episode a 10/10 simply because I can't let it be lower/equal to the blackout episode (probably the most disappointing episode this season).

My favourite episode so far. Excited for next week. I love Mabel so much. Selena you go girl. So proud of her. Nd the bond of Martin's & Selena >>> best trio.

Parts of the show was good and has emotional stuff such as Theo's story. Mabel's back story meant absolutely nothing and had no sense to it except that her dad died young from cancer and encouraged her to do jigsaw puzzles upside down. Hence the title "flipping the pieces".

I am surprised that in NYC that a person can stab a person on the subway, which is on video and no one is able to find her or even attempting to look for her. Especially someone who is so well known.

The detective is a total farce. Not even a cute baby (and what a big baby ... what is the time frame between season one and 2 anyways?) can save this episode.

And they go to Coney Island in broad daylight and break in and take forever to get what they want. I guess the purpose there was to get that picture in the trio's hands.

Too much jumping around and there seems to be very little that connects in a reasonably sensible way.

Let's hope the next episode is a little better.

Mable's past has always been a subject of mystery and we have never quite gotten into what really shaped her character. A person's past, or the life they have lived until a certain point, has a big role to play in defining them in the present. In episode 7 of Only Murders In The Building Season 2, we "flip" the pieces to look underneath our most beloved member of the tribe. Mabel is clad in a yellow night-suit sitting in a bedroom. She has pieces of a puzzle in front of her. Not just any puzzle; the puzzle of her life. This episode did not feel like it had too much story progression. On the face of it, "Flipping the Pieces" seems like a decent companion piece to the previous episode. Mabel Mora's deconstruction was hinted at from the very first episode of this season. And it has finally happened in an emotional harkening back to the past. She has always been a character who seems to be going through a lot. She carries a lot of baggage from the past and it reflects in the way we see her. Even when she was able to go past that stage, life wasn't kind to her. Detective Williams is back in town and some of her bits with Oliver and Charles were really good. They do have an infectious and charming bromance that has begun to blossom. Theo was humanized in this episode too, and I liked that choice very much. His crimes beside, he's still a good person and a similar target of pain and misery. The ghost from his past, Zoe, has troubled him but we didn't see that suffering before this episode.

OMITB (Only Murders In The Building) is not one for glorifying or focusing on the chase/action sequences. Mabel had a run-in with the killer but still didn't see his face and was able to get away with ease. Although it does not diminish OMITB's appeal, it doesn't give it brownie points either. Overall, this episode felt relatively weaker than the previous ones in the season. I don't want to say the word but "filler" pops up as the perfect way to describe it. Mabel's revisit to the past was effective but the lack of anything else really couldn't rouse us up.

The first series of tt12851524 contained Episode 7, 'The Boy from 6B (2021)'. Told from the perspective of Theo Dimas (James Caverly), a notable resident of the Arconia and a suspect at the time, it was an ambitious and fantastically delivered instalment that had almost no dialogue. Theo is, after all, deaf.

In this episode, 'Flipping Pieces', the younger Dimas is, once again, playing a prominent part - except the delivery is not to the previously established standard at all. Instead, his perspective is half-acknowledged, and Mabel, who shares scenes with Theo, spends a while talking at him. That does not work well in terms of logic; it works even less in terms of acting: Selena Gomez is delightfully cynical when her lines are given in response to those spoken by Steve Martin and Martin Short. When left to carry the dialogue on her own, the actress's speech turns unmodulated and grating.

The story remains unconcerned with questions posed earlier: who is Will's biological father? Has Alice left Mabel's apartment - and do we care that the former is dangerously duplicitous and obsessed? When Detective Williams (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) went on maternity leave, did she take the rest of NYPD with her, since the well-recorded and publicised stabbing on the subway has not prompted any arrests or questioning?

Instead, the episode introduced more questions. Such as: Why wouldn't you be wearing gloves when committing theft at winter-time? How many new products are in the Gut Milk line? And, at which point does the required suspension of disbelief become too great, and one has no choice but to treat the show as a melodrama? Asking for a friend.

Flipping the Pieces explores why Mabel's memory might be hazy. It is all to do with her past with her father. She has happy memories of them putting jigsaws together.

She blocked out the memories of her father dying of cancer.

Meanwhile in the subway, Theo Dimas came to her rescue as he was on the next carriageway.

Reluctantly she has to accepts Theo's help and they go to Coney island to look for the Glitter guy. However you have to wonder why the police are not looking for Mabel given that it is all over the social media that she stabbed a guy.

As for Charles and Oliver. They come face to face with Detective Williams who has cut short her maternity leave.

The scenes with Mabel and the Glitter guy were tense. I was not sure the scenes with Detective Williams were as funny, where she could hear Charles and Oliver discussing getting rid of the murder weapon.

I love this show but this episode was just terrible.

The writing was atrocious. Way too many coincidences and things happening solely for plot points. Just outrageous demands on suspending disbelief. Dreck!

Selena Gomez has been passable this whole time. Not a lot of complaints. So, what happened on this episode? Was it poor direction?

She was awful. Every single line was delivered with a grating whine. Everything about her performance screamed bad actor. But why so bad in this one episode? So odd.

I certainly hope this writer and director don't get another episode any time soon. Ugh!

This episode is just a long flat series of pointless events as if to fill an amount of screen time. Nothing much happens and whatever does happen takes a long pointless circle to get there. Going back and forth in time with pointless story trying to be deep or something. The acting was B movie standard... just boring nonsense.

We have really enjoyed OMITB, but this one was a stinker. For the most part it was a boring time killer-- poorly plotted, badly written and indifferently acted. I realize that Selena Gomez is a fan favorite, but she doesn't have the chops to carry an entire episode by herself, and she was badly served by the story-- or what passed for a story-- told here. Gee, let's go to a Coney Island amusement park, which is conveniently deserted and yet ridiculously easy to break into, play some arcade games and stumble into the only other person in the entire park, who turns out to be a particular person of interest. Insert eye-roll emoji here.