The Only Murders in the Building crew are keeping their friends close, and their murder suspects closer. In a Tuesday (Aug. 12) trailer for the show’s highly anticipated fifth season, Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin’s characters find themselves in the middle of a modern-day Godfather situation, with the trio having to get cozy with members of the New York City mafia to solve their latest mysteries.
The two-and-a-half-minute teaser opens with the death of doorman Lester, who is found in an outdoor fountain pooling with his blood. After the cops rule the shocking situation an “accident,” the Arconia mystery solvers must “go face to face with the mob” — as Martin’s character puts it — to find clarity.
“This isn’t the mob, this is the new mob of New York” says a distressed Short after meeting a group of gangster brothers in the trailer.
Elsewhere in the video, the gang crashes Lester’s funeral to get answers — and at one point, Martin unceremoniously checks the doorman’s casket to see if the body still has all 10 fingers. As mourners start yelling at him for defiling the corpse, the Rare Beauty founder says hilariously, “We’re all going to Hell.”
The new trailer comes about two months after Gomez revealed that she and her fellow cast and crew had wrapped filming for the fifth season of Only Murders. Sharing an emotional video of her last day on set, the star wrote on Instagram, “To my only murders family, the past 5 years you all have seen my best and my worst.”
“I hope [you’re] reading this because I deeply appreciate each and every one of you,” she added at the time. “Words can’t describe how much I love what we’ve all created and we wouldn’t be here without you all!”
In addition to the core trio behind Only Murders, Meryl Streep will also return for the fifth season, which will premiere on Hulu on Sept. 9. The new installment also stars Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Keegan-Michael Key, Beanie Feldstein and more fresh faces.
Watch the trailer for season 5 of Only Murders in the Building above.
