The Residence – This Joyful Murder Mystery is Eight Hours of Gorgeous, Gleeful Escapism

The Residence
Uzo Aduba (center) as detective and avid birder Cordelia Cupp in The Residence. Photograph: Erin Simkin/Netflix

Like a locked-room mystery, do you? How about a 132-locked-rooms mystery, with more than 150 murder suspects? Settle in for some uber-Christie with comic knobs on, courtesy of Shondaland’s latest production: The Residence, a bonkers whodunnit written by Paul William Davies (who worked with Shonda Rhimes on her most famous creation, Scandal) and starring the magnificently inimitable Uzo Aduba, who appears to be having almost as much fun as her audience. The Residence is a very happy experience all round – moreish, bingeable, a complete tonic.

Cupp takes breaks to see if she can spot any of the birds in the White House grounds that fellow birding enthusiast Teddy Roosevelt noted over his years in residence.

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