Only Murders in the Building has returned with its fifth season this fall, bringing with it a host of new supporting characters. With one of these characters, in particular, the murder-mystery series has continued one of 2025’s defining TV trends.

In several previous small-screen hits this year, the supporting characters who’ve most outshone their shows’ main stars have been hard-boiled grandmothers. Now, Steve Martin and John Hoffman’s crime comedy has added its own badass grandma to the list. What’s more, like earlier prominent examples of this 2025 TV phenomenon, she’s of Italian descent.

Famously, the four title characters of Nonnas , the heartwarming Netflix original movie that spent several weeks at the top of the platform’s global chart in the spring, are also Italian gra

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