Here's What We Know About 'Only Murders in the Building' Season 2

In an age where many of our favorite true-crime shows were adapted from podcasts, Hulu's comedy Only Murders in the Building sets up a scenario where the podcast hosts themselves get caught up in the crime. The show, which became the streamer's most-watched original comedy ever, stars Selena Gomez as the millennial foil to comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short, with the trio playing residents in a lush NY building who investigate their neighbor's murder.

Fortunately for fans—but unfortunately for all the Arconian residents dealing with another murder—Hulu announced the show's renewal during its first season run. The season 1 finale saw Charles (Martin) and Oliver (Short) discovering Mabel (Gomez) covered in blood and looming over the body of the building's lead board member, Bunny (Jayne Houdyshell). Here's what we know so far about the hit comedy's next case.

Season 2 premieres on June 28, 2022.

Hulu announced the show's summer premiere date earlier this year, releasing a blooper-filled clip (see below) of Gomez, Martin, and Short struggling to get through the announcement 'cause they can't stop joking around. The new season will come within a year of the comedy's series premiere, showing just how excited Hulu was to get more episodes out.

The teaser shows the trio investigating Bunny's murder.

A first-look teaser debuted during the Oscars red carpet broadcast, showing Charles, Oliver, and Mabel going against the advice of the cops yet again, and investigating Bunny's murder themselves while also narrating updates from the podcast. They also seem to be in danger yet again, with an unseen character brandishing a knife at one point in the clip.

For anyone who needs a refresher on season 1's cliffhanger, the scene saw Charles and Oliver finding Mabel in her aunt's apartment, leaning over the dead body of Bunny, who is wearing a tie-dye hoodie and has a knitting needle sticking out of her chest. Mabel quickly says, "It's not what you think," before cops swoop in, handcuff them, and parade them past all the Arconian residents, including original tie-dye guy Oscar. While Mabel probably (hopefully) didn't kill Bunny, she'll have a hard time proving it, since she called Bunny a "cranky old bitch" in public a few days before and she had an early-season fantasy of using a knitting needle as a weapon.

Hulu's official synopsis for the show reads, "Following the shocking death of Arconia Board President Bunny Folger, Charles, Oliver & Mabel race to unmask her killer. However, three (unfortunate) complications ensue—the trio is publicly implicated in Bunny's homicide, they are now the subjects of a competing podcast, and they have to deal with a bunch of New York neighbors who all think they committed murder."

Cara Delevingne will play Selena Gomez's love interest.

Variety reported last December that the Suicide Squad actor had joined the cast, describing her character Alice as "a sophisticated art world insider who becomes enmeshed in the mystery." A recent Vanity Fair article revealed that the model's character will also be a love interest for Mabel, with real-life best friends Gomez and Delevingne working together. Showrunner and cocreator John Hoffman also teased that Alice will clash with old-fashioned Charles and Oliver.

"It was amazing to have the two of them know each other and feel comfortable," Hoffman said of Gomez and Delevingne. "It’s a little sparky in all the right ways that makes you feel like, Oh, someone's opening someone’s world."

Amy Schumer will play a "slightly unbearable" version of herself.

Following in Sting's footsteps as a celeb playing themself on the comedy, Trainwreck star Amy Schumer has joined the show and will be playing a "slightly unbearable" and "self-obsessed" version of herself who's subletting the musician's penthouse apartment, per Vanity Fair. Hoffman also told the outlet that the comedian takes on a pivotal role in season 2's first few episodes.

Other new additions to the cast include Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine, who will play Bunny's grieving mother, as well as Difficult People's Andrea Martin and Fear the Walking Dead's Zoe Colletti in unknown roles.

Aaron Dominguez, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Tina Fey, Jackie Hoffman, Nathan Lane and James Caverly, Jackie Hoffman, and Michael Cyril Creighton will all reprise their roles, with Jayne Houdyshell playing Bunny in flashback scenes.

Gomez says Mabel is more sophisticated in season 2.

In a Variety interview last December, the Wizards of Waverly Place star said that Mabel Mora will be even cooler in the show's upcoming season (if that's even possible). "It’s cool because personally in my life, since I started Season 1 to doing Season 2, I changed so much," Gomez said of filming season 2.

"I know that it’s a small amount of time, but I think it kind of carried on into [her character] Mabel. If anything, there’s just more of a sophistication to her. Her style gets better. She’s like super cool. I cut my hair. So it’s a whole fresh start for Mabel," she added.

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