Only Murders In The Building Co-Creator Explains Why Meryl Streep’s Character Is So Bad At Table Reads

Only Murders in the Building co-creator John Hoffman explains why Meryl Streep’s character struggled at the table read in the season 3 premiere. Co-created by Hoffman and Steve Martin, Hulu’s hit murder mystery series returned for its third season on August 8. The first episode flashes back to an audition for Oliver Putnam’s play, Death Rattle, as a struggling actress named Loretta Durkin (played by the singular Streep) amazes him with her audition. However, four months later at the read-through, Loretta struggles mightily, trying on a series of heavy-handed accents before forgetting her place in the script.