what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with
my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode of hulu's only murders in the building
we're talking episode 7 titled the boy from 6b an episode of which we find out how zoe died
but we don't know exactly who killed tim we're going to break it all down here in the spoiler
review but before we dive into it make sure you're checking me out on all my other social media
accounts if you are new to the channel welcome to the community consider subscribing and hitting
that notification bell that way you can get the alert from when i drop new content if you enjoyed
this spoiler review make sure to like and share the review it helps out the channel a lot but also
appreciate the support and in those comments let's talk about the big reveal in regards to
teddy and theo in the cover-up of theo being responsible for the death of zoey and how
everything played out with the ring and their family business but we still don't exactly know
why did it take so long for tim to die what did he learn what did he discover for him to end up being
killed by the hands of teddy or theo or someone else entirely let's talk about it in the comments
below so first and foremost i am a big fan of this episode number one what a creative choice to have
the entire episode to have not zero dialogue but literally 99 of the episode was no dialogue at all
except for the final seconds when charles yelled for the celebration of getting that password but
how did you all feel about that choice me personally i thought it was pretty unique i can't
think off top of any time i've seen a tv show not have any dialogue at all except for the final
seconds and there might be something i'm probably can think of something i can't think of it right
now let me know if there is something that you all have seen that did a very similar creative choice
but i thought that was pretty unique but then also just seeing how everything shaped up and just the
pacing episode the dramatic beats in the episode it really didn't rely on some of the comedy beats
that we've seen before but just really diving deeper into the murder mystery aspect which was
very unique and i really enjoyed it but again let me know your thoughts in the comments below
but let's break down this excellent episode of only murders in a building starting off with one
of many flashbacks that we get in this episode and this particular flashback just gives us more
context in the in the father-son relationship between teddy and theo we have a young theo
who obviously can't hear his dad kind of being frustrated him putting the headphones on his
head and obviously theo can't hear but he's burst you know blasting the music in his ear like even
if he had a little bit of hearing i don't know if he'll have it after that he was blowing out
his eardrums but neither you know there again we go from that flashback to immediately see him feel
in the present day as he's spying on our crew with his binoculars seeing how they're piecing
things together and how they're trying to figure out this password to unlock tim's phone and again
just right off the bat just like okay at first i'm like are we going to get this entire episode from
his point of view are we going to be in silence for the majority of the episode and we got that
and again creative choice there are some moments that i felt like the silence was a little bit
awkward like there would have been a moment like especially oliver we know oliver talks a
lot there was many moments where he would have said something but of course they want to kind
of keep that going but outside of those little background faint background noises again i thought
it was pretty unique to see the episode through the point of view of theo which brings us to theo
pulling a deadpool and breaking the fourth wall talking about how everyone in the city talks so
much especially oliver but let's get back to the continuation of the theo character as we follow
him downstairs talking to the doorman they're kind of having some banter he distracts him by calling
him and takes the master key to all the condos in the in the place which i'm just like that's
where that's with the keys hidden it's not on his neck it's not on his wrist it's not in a secure
box but i guess it's like one of those old school buildings where the people trust one another but
i thought it would have been a much more secure place but neither here nor there theo goes and
he sees the board that our crew has put together but more importantly he sees that his dad's names
on that board and takes a photo of that which brings us to catching up to our scooby-doo crew
of charles and mabel sneaking into teddy's house and this is where mabel gets behind the bookcase
and we get like a really quick flashback of like when she was talking to zola i'm like
what was that how the hell does she know about that bookcase but we get a little bit more context
of that a little bit later which i guess we still don't know how she was able because now thinking
about it zoe was the one that saw him in the bookcase i don't know how she was able to find
know that there was a secret door behind a bookcase but you know she's a hearty boy she's
sherlock holmes or nola homes more or less but nonetheless we see her find the secret bookcase
and what's behind it is a bunch of urns for ashes and this is the family business that i guess teddy
was talking about last week but we don't know exactly what's in those urns until we find out
a little bit later meantime we see that teddy and oliver are making their way back up to his place
and this is where perfect timing because we see that theo makes his way into the house maple and
charles are hiding behind the door they're able to make it out but unfortunately mr charles not
so sneaky not the detective like he was in the 90s he drops his glove in the apartment which allows
us to know that theo knows that someone was in the house but before we even get that moment
we see theo talking to his dad in regards to they know everything they're on to us dad and we see
uh teddy say that you know keep your the famous quote keep your friends close and your enemies
closer which makes me just think like that you know he's literally meaning that because why in
the hell would he want to fund this podcast trying to uncover the murder of tim knowing that there is
well at least right now we think that it's teddy that's responsible for the death of tim but we'll
get to that a little bit later but it still kind of baffles me that he's maybe that confident that
they're like they won't be able to crack the case but why would you even put yourself in their line
of sight why would you like sponsor them it still kind of blows my mind that teddy's helping them
out considering that his son was responsible for the death of a person that was connected to the
person that just died i don't know it just blows my mind of that matter but neither here nor there
we move forward again we learn within that same scene that there's going to be a transaction going
on that night with this whole jewelry underground black market thing that we have going but
going to again we get another flashback and this is a pretty big flashback because it gives us
more context exactly this relationship between theo and the hardy boys and particularly with
zoe as we see zoe and maple sneak into teddy's house we see that this is where zoe finds that
green ring she takes it upon herself and during this time theo knows that they're in the house
and he's looking at them through the bookcase and he locks eyes with zoe and they kind of have a
conversation where she says that yes i admit when i say without i find you attractive now i think
too in this episode they've had off-screen conversations that we just didn't see as an
audience that they've kind of established they had some type of a friendship or particular romance at
a certain point but obviously we know zoe had a thing for uh oscar which kind of just shows you
you know going back to last week's like damn oscar really didn't you know his girlfriend died and
he was this whole time he was in the mabel but it kind of shows you that their relationship was just
toxic as it is because she was uh you know into it with another guy which in this case was theo but
as we move forward thinking to myself did he confront her that night and that's how she died
which we'll get into really kind of weird scene but let's go back to the flashback ending as theo
sees charles like i said he left his glove behind and we go from seeing that moment to charles and
jan listen you all know if you've been watching my reviews jan is still on my radar i know we
find out who killed zoe but i still think that jan has something to do with either this
jewelry situation she might be related to jan or i should say zoe some way somehow and maybe
you know since tim didn't tell the truth he she felt like she had to
put matters in her own hand i still think that jan has something to do with it but another hint there
charles and dan are going on a date and we immediately see going back to like the whole
gimmick of this episode that they're not going to be talking in the episode which again just let me
know did you enjoy that aspect of the episode i did but at some points i was like that's
not unnatural that's very unnatural for certain characters not to talk in that moment but going
back to the big flashback of this episode as we see the night of zoe's death first and foremost
she's in the elevator with her boyfriend oscar and we see teddy as well as his son theo in the
elevator and this is where she's like grabbing his ass going up to his head touching them flirting
and whatnot and as she makes her way out of the elevator she says you know happy new year to theo
and unfortunately teddy realized that she has that ring on her finger unfortunately he blames
it on his son what have you done like he didn't really do anything but yes he could have probably
said something when they broke into the house and tried to get the ring back because unfortunately
things don't work out for zoe as we know which brings us to cutting back to mabel and oliver
who are attending a funeral which this whole transaction is going to be taking place with
the urns and they make their way into the basement which again as i mentioned the unnatural of the
characters not speaking in this episode i thought it was very unnatural that oliver would fall in
the ground and not say anything especially us knowing oliver he always has something to say so
there were like little moments again i'm just nitpicking at this point i thought the episode
was fantastic but it was like it was a little bit too on the nose they were like purposely trying
to not make dialogue which again was a creative choice but i thought that was a very unnatural
moment but they make their way to the basement and again this is very tropey in regards to
murder mysteries there's another bookcase another secret bookcase in the basement of the funeral
home as we cut to them going down there but before we even go to that scene we we go to
a very this was i mentioned how this episode was a little bit more serious in tone but they still
managed to give us some comedy and some really good comedy as we go on the date with charles and
jan and they're playing uh scramble and charles my man just can't get a hint there are the words
that she's spelling out she she wants to take things to the next level and charles is just like
okay you're using what oh let me it was just very i thought that was a very comedic moment like
legit hilarious and i thought that was a genius way of showing our characters not being able to
talk because they're playing this game and what have you i thought that that moment was very funny
let me know what you all thought of that moment a cut back to our characters in the basement as they
come across what's actually going on as we see theo is taking the jewelry off of the person that
just had the funeral and we they are literally this is the family business that teddy is involved
with with his yaya they are literally grape grave robbers and taking jewelry off of dead people very
unethical and just it's just a terrible decision to make but it's it's i guess it pays the bills
to play pay for this expensive condo and the lifestyle that teddy and his son has but we see
theo sees them as they try to escape when we get the very big big big flashback which is actually
how the zoe dies so we see the events play out where zoe and oscar get into a fight which by
the way the scene in which we first saw it it seemed like it happened so quick but obviously
when we see the events it was like a much longer like situation like it was like a five minute
moment where when we first saw her die it seemed like it was like a matter of seconds when oscar
walked away and got to a fight but neither you know there we see the details of the conversation
they get into a fight this is where theo makes his way into you know talking to her about oscar
and their relationship and how they are like on again off again very toxic relationship
uh as they're in but we see theo you know politely ask hey can you give me the ring back and then
things kind of get a little bit more heated she gets offense she gets defensive she starts
pushing him and you know he tries to grab her to stop her and she tries like let me go she she he
lets her go and she falls right off the roof which again i'm just nitpicking because this episode is
fantastic but like seriously i i've been on many rooftops and i would imagine that especially a
rooftop of this capacity or this building would have like top tier safety there should have been
like a gate or a fence of something of some sort that she couldn't just easily have fell off of the
roof without some type of barrier but again i'm just nitpicking but we see that that's how she
died and and how everything personally kind of played out again it is a very trophy thing to do
and the murder mystery just like you know over the top type of situations but as we move forward we
see that tim shows the uh the whole situation and tim saw the whole thing as we know and we cut to
teddy threatening him that hey if you tell anyone i'm gonna not only
do what i did to your girlfriend or your friend but i'm going to do it to the girl that you're
interested in which is mabel which again just makes you wonder what was exactly that tim saw
or not saw but what was it that made him die 10 years or however many years ago it was later which
you know did he dive deeper did something that was an anniversary that sparked him to look more into
teddy was there something that he got involved with again we know that he had some involvement
with this underground uh situation did he get in too deep did he come across the wrong uh person
jan uh yeah yeah or the kids may be but again we see that he threatens him and that's why he
kept that promise and that's why he never told uh that oscar wasn't the person because obviously he
didn't want to die but more importantly we know that he had a really good relationship with mabel
so he was in his head he was doing the right thing he was protecting his friends even though his
friend is going to be went to jail for 10 years from the murder or being accused of the murder
of his girlfriend but as we wrap things up we end with uh two text messages one is a message from
charles and obviously another message is from theos whose father the one from charles and
when we get our dialogue is that way they say it's theo theo is the password so he's a celebrity he's
happy but unfortunately the other message is theo to his father saying that they know everything and
they have he has them in the back of the van again we in which all celebrated and they're in the back
of the van which is just like damn maple you know you you had that great combat in the uh the alley
with oscar a couple weeks ago you telling me that theo was able to get you and oliver i guess you
know maybe theo has some strength that we didn't know about but neither here nor there again we we
we figure out one part of this puzzle which we see exactly what happened to zoe we see how the events
played out but we still don't know again why was it that why did it take so long for tim to die
what what made him finally tell what happened to his uh his friend zoe what was the situation
that he found about this jewelry heist uh black market situation again i still have my eyes on
jan i haven't forgot about oliver's son will again red herrings maybe but i don't know we still know
exactly who poisoned his dog in regards to uh you know the whole sting situation so there is
still someone out there i don't think that teddy is responsible or i should say theo and teddy are
responsible for the death of chloe and tim but i think that there's someone else out there that is
responsible for the death of tim and i don't know if it exactly correlates to the death of zoey so
jan i'm still having my eyes on you and also too just to kind of go on another tangent
that neighbor of charles that knows his ex-girlfriend's stepdaughter and
all that stuff that guy was very weird to me i don't know what's up with that dude that
might be a season two murderer but uh and of course we still have the detective out there
uh but man this is a fantastic episode we only got two left so i don't know what the rest
what the finale is going to look like because i would imagine next week is going to resolve like
the zoe situation uh but of course i guess maybe they can leave episode 10 to like really honing in
on the exact murderer of tim's murderer so we'll see what comes but let me know your pros your cons
your thoughts your theories what you thought of the episode of the whole and of course what you
hope to see leading up to the finale of this fantastic show before you all leave make sure
to like the video share the video subscribe to the channel hit the bell that way you don't miss
my other content hope you're staying safe hope you enjoyed this review as you can see
on the screen now subscribe check out my other content we'll see you all on the next video