Teddy might be a murderer, but he does have good taste in musicals ( Splash aside). We learn more about Teddy and his son Theo in the opening-sequence flashback of Teddy trying to give a young Theo the experience of listening to Carousel.
“The Boy From 6B” answers nearly all the questions remaining from the night Zoe died - the inciting incident that sent Oscar to prison and eventually resulted in the murder of Tim Kono. He runs a mysterious black-market jewelry business and now seems to be the person who murdered Tim Kono. Teddy, it turns out, is not simply the charming financier who once gave in to a bad Splash musical pitch. This is true of Oliver, who thought he knew Teddy but is now tied up with Mabel in the back of Teddy’s son’s van. Residents of the Arconia sleep under the same roof as hundreds (maybe thousands, I don’t know the scale, sorry!) of people they know surprisingly little about. This is especially true in New York City: Your neighbors may share a wall and roof, or a doorman or elevator with you, but you might rarely speak to them, much less get to know them on a deeper level. That it provides those answers with nearly no audible dialogue makes it the most impressive.Įven in the age of social media, there is still so much we don’t know about the people physically closest to us: our neighbors. And “The Boy From 6B” isn’t a throwaway episode it is perhaps the most important episode in terms of delivering answers about one of the story’s central mysteries. What makes Teddy’s perspective all the more unique is that because he’s a deaf character, much of the story is told in near silence, save for the muffled sound design and sparse, intentional score that’s similar to last year’s Sound of Metal. The episode is told almost entirely from the perspective of Theo, Teddy’s son, a character who we’ve only seen briefly in the background. Only Murders in the Building has offered perspectives from various characters, big and small, all season, including Oscar and Detective Williams, but none more than “The Boy From 6B” has. Most recently, Ted Lasso centered an entire episode on Coach Beard - a popular but tertiary character - as he navigates a chaotic night out in London, à la the 1985 Martin Scorsese classic After Hours (the episode is called “Beard After Hours”). perspective as a contrast to her tumultuous lifestyle. You’re the Worst had “ LCD Soundsystem,” an episode focused on Gretchen’s neighbors’ picture-perfect L.A. One of the few benefits to come in the aftermath of “ Peak TV” is the likelihood of encountering a show like The Sopranos or Mad Men that’s willing to take a creative risk and occasionally shift the focus from the protagonists to interesting characters and talented actors deeper in the cast.
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