We need to talk about Lucy.

Charles’ almost stepdaughter, Lucy, poured her joy and energy into the already energetic and entertaining “Murder in the Building Only.” As the Hulu show prepares to wrap up her hit sophomore season and finally reveal her second killer, Lucy dazzles and wows with her speeches, discoveries, and dresses. increase. More than just a fashion icon (though she is, of course): She’s the third generation in the cross-generational friendship of Steve Her Martin’s Charles, Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez).

Teenager Lucy is Gen Z, and she’ll tell you. Her phone is ever-present, and in that way she primarily communicates with Charles, who has been dating her mother for many years and who basically became her father before her mother cut off her relationship. increase. Lucy, who is very connected, uses text abbreviations and slang that confuses him, while Charles and Oliver are both new to texting. It took Charles quite a while to learn not to sign his texts. She mentions Mabel on TikTok for mental health, and it’s not yet clear if Lucy has her own channel, but it’s not clear that she’s speaking into a cellphone camera at the entrance to the show. Considering that, it is very possible.

As played by Zoe Margaret Colletti in Scary Tales in the Dark and 2014’s Annie, Lucy is serious and outspoken. Colletti’s likeability underpins her character’s great resilience. Lucy missed Charles during the years of silence, not understanding that her mother did not want the two of them to communicate. However, Lucy quickly bounces back and she quickly returns to her own life.

Lucy often wears comfy pants so she might be able to do all the rebounding.. Not only does the character look cool, but the loose, soft fabric makes her look relaxed. Wearing trendy yet sensible shoes, she can move quickly when pursued by a potential killer. I envy Lucy’s pants (So does Mabel, who told her when we first met, “I love those pants. I had a pair.”) Even when Lucy wears a formal gown, specifically a ruffled tulle bridesmaid dress to her mother’s wedding, the characters wear sneakers on the bottom to keep causal.

Lucy (Zoe Margaret Colletti) in “Only Murders In The Building” (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)Lucy also has an unexpected talent. It shows in the way she drops by Charles’ apartment without notice. And if no one is home, how she sneaks into the secret passageway…or the wrong person breaks into the house. When it comes to fashion, it comes through in her creative color and print combinations. She’s matching rainbow checks and chevrons to her stripes. She matches what classically doesn’t match, what really does. But with Lucy, they work.

She wears light shades even in her cool, dark Upper East Side. When she lived in Manhattan, she wore a bright red umbrella that stood out. Lucy mixes things up. You never know where you can find her, what she will say next, what she will discover (Lucy is the one who eventually finds the murder weapon), or what she will show up wearing. Hmm.

Marv (Daniel Oreskez), Lucy (Zoe Margaret Colletti), Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) in “Only Murders in the Building” (Craig・Blankenhorn/Hulu)In her dress and personality, Lucy is unconscious. Examine the hilt hat. “No,” she declares, and rips it off. She is filming then. The moment we first meet her Mabel, she talks about her anti-anxiety medication and she laments not having a “real diagnosis.”

She is also non-judgmental. Some teenagers may never forgive Charles for seemingly abandoning them, but Lucy understands as soon as he explains, and in an attempt to make up for her lost time, she immediately becomes intimate with him. She supports him, calling him “someone like my super-cool TV star ex-dad.” – her first reaction is relatively tame: “Would you like to wash these?”

Lucy (Zoe Margaret Colletti) in “Only Murders In The Building” (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)

Lucy is open minded. When she jokes to Mabel that Charles and Oliver are going out to have a private “adult conversation”, there is no blame in her remarks, simply curious and friendly. also talks about Mabel and pronoun changes.

Mabel is the character closest in age to Lucy, but a generational gap separates them. Mabel is a millennial, so she’s still different from Lucy, who talks in circles around her, or in a different way (teenagers also listen to podcasts at twice her speed). increase). Charles tries to bring the two together, but says, “She used the word ‘Manhatty’ and you used ‘hot goth’. It’s like watching a “squid game” [sic] No subtitles” — Lucy is her own person, revealed by Mabel.

Mabel looks different next to Lucy. We notice a new nurturing side to her as she feels that Mabel is protective of teenagers.Two older men always make Mabel young, hip and in “cool boots.” We call it that, but Lucy is still young. And while Charles and Oliver may have thought of Mabel as a child, her Lucy’s arrival showed that Mabel was an adult, able to take care of herself, make her decisions, and do things her own way. Lucy reveals that she can help Mabel grow up.

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Each character in “Only Murders” has its own style from the beginning. Oliver wears a long scarf and turtleneck, Charles wears a sweater and button-down his shirt. Mabel is the strongest style icon to emerge from the show, striding across the screen in a bright orange faux fur coat, canary yellow sweater, checked trousers, red headphones, and cool boots. Makes a great Halloween costume.Speaking from personal experience, not all of your friends will understand.

But Lucy is the show’s newest style icon.she helps us see all In a different way about “Only Murders,” including helping us get to know Charles, Oliver, and even Mabel better. Now we’ve seen them through her eyes covered in her floral print, her haggard hat.

The ‘Only Murders in the Building’ season 2 finale airs on Hulu on Tuesday, August 23rd.