{"id":31350,"date":"2022-12-24T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31350"},"modified":"2022-12-24T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:30:28","slug":"who-killed-santa-a-murderville-murder-mystery-2022-starring-will-arnett-jason-bateman-maya-rudolph-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31350","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery&#8221; (2022) starring Will Arnett, Jason Bateman &#038; Maya Rudolph \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z122422murderville_santa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery <\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Laura Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Krister Johnson<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Pete Davidson, Maya Rudolph, Sean Hayes <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Dennice Cisneros<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Detective Terry Seattle (Arnett) and his new partner in training, Jason Bateman, have an easy shift. They&#8217;re providing security for a photo op at city hall with Santa, the mayor and some orphans.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cakewalk assignment until the lights go out and Santa is killed.\u00a0 Seattle and Bateman have until sunrise to solve the crime.\u00a0 Luckily there are two surprise guests coming to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Murderville<\/em> has a great set-up.\u00a0 The guests on the show don&#8217;t ever see a script.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t even get to see the sets until filming starts.\u00a0 Then there is a murder. The guest stars try to solve who did it using real clues as they adlib their way through the episode.\u00a0 At the end, each guest star is given three suspects.\u00a0 The star then picks the suspect he\/she believes is the killer as well as the clues that led to the decision.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to play along as a viewer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jason Bateman, Maya Rudolph and Pete Davidson are the guest stars.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hilarious that not one of the stars thinks a provided suspect is the killer.\u00a0 At one point Pete Davidson does something unexpected and Arnett quickly adlibs to keep the bit working.\u00a0 Oh and Sean Hayes as Santa cannot stop cracking up&#8230; even after he&#8217;s been murdered!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery<\/em> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z122422murderville_santa2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Killed Santa? 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