In September 2024, Hulu greenlit Only Murders in the Building for a fifth season. Filming took place from March to June 2025. The season will consist of ten episodes.
On the day of Lester's funeral, the trio finds a severed finger, confirming their suspicions that Lester's death was not accidental as the police claimed. After Charles checks Lester's body in the coffin and sees that none of his fingers are missing, Oliver learns from his wedding photos that Lester was talking to a man identified as mobster Nicky Caccimelio. They go to Staten Island and meet Nicky's sons and his wife, Sofia, who previously wanted to hire them to investigate Nicky's disappearance. She explains that their family has a dry cleaning business, owning the dry cleaner in the Arconia as well, and tells them about Nicky's gambling addiction. She gives them Nicky's favorite deck of cards as a clue, and Charles discovers that one of the cards is magnetic and contains a hidden map. He and Mabel follow the map, which leads them to a secret casino room underneath the Arconia. At the same time, Oliver finds Nicky's dead body at the Caccimelios's dry cleaner.
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"After You"
John Hoffman
Ben Smith & Ella Robinson Brooks
September9,2025(2025-09-09)
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Before his death, Lester participated in an interview for a study about New York City doormen. He told how he started his job in 1993, mentored by his colleague George. On his first day, he met Charles, Oliver, baby Mabel, and his future wife, Lorraine. Over the years, he assisted the trio through various points in their lives and discovered that George received extra money from Nicky Caccimelio for letting certain people in at his request. After George retired, he introduced Lester to Nicky, who gave Lester the same task. For years, he earned a good income from the commission, although Nicky refused to let him quit when he wanted to. As the number of murders in the building increased recently, Lester hired another doorman, Randall, who started his first shift on Oliver's wedding day. A flash-forward depicts Lester that night fleeing from someone who eventually murders him in the Arconia's fountain with an elevator crank.
Oliver takes Nicky's body to Charles's apartment after accidentally leaving his DNA on it. Not wanting to involve the police, who might link them to the murder, the trio decides to perform an autopsy themselves. They figure out that Nicky died around the same time as Lester but was frozen, preventing decomposition. They also find a piece of paper in his mouth from Lester's ledger. While Oliver borrows the ledger from Randall, Mabel runs into her former friend, Althea, who is now a celebrity and moving into the Arconia penthouse. Charles secretly takes Nicky's body back to the dry cleaner, where it is later found by corrupt police officers who cover up the incident. The trio learns from Lester's ledger the date of an upcoming poker game in the secret casino room, so they decide to attend. There, they see three of New York's richest people arrive, and that one of them, pharmaceutical tycoon heir Jay Pflug, is missing a finger.
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"Dirty Birds"
Chris Koch
Kristin Newman
September16,2025(2025-09-16)
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Assuming Jay's involvement in Nicky's and Lester's murder due to his missing finger, the trio decides to trick him into coming over for an interrogation. They record the podcast's season five teaser, hinting that Jay and his billionaire friends might be murderers, which prompts Jay to agree to meet them to clear his name. He arrives along with tech mogul Bash Steeg and hotelier Camila White, who all threaten to sue the trio for libel. The trio talks with each of the billionaires privately to make them confess; Charles and Oliver bond with Bash and Camila over their common views on life, while Mabel and Jay discuss their trust issues, with Mabel explaining how her friendship with Althea strained after the latter became famous. The billionaires then reveal that a drugged Nicky chopped off Jay's finger with a cleaver. The trio receives a podcast publishing deal from Wondify.[a] Just as they sign the contract, they realize that Jay's missing finger and the one they found are not the same, but legally they cannot accuse the billionaires of lying due to them being the new majority ownership of Wondify. They are shocked to learn that they have been set up.
Filming for the season took place between March and June 2025.[15][16]
Release
The fifth season premiered on September 9, 2025, with three new episodes, on Hulu. Subsequent episodes will be released weekly until the season finale on October 28.[17]
Reception
For the fifth season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 95% approval rating, based on 38 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Putting the very fate of the Arconia on the line, Only Murders in the Building's fifth season goes back to the series' fundamentals — its core trio — and reaffirms that their charm hasn't waned one bit."[18]Metacritic gave the fifth season a weighted average score of 71 out of 100 based on 16 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable".[19]
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