OMITB Season 5 Finale Thoughts

I have been chomping at the BIT to be able to chat with you all about this one, and I finally had time to compile my thoughts! As you all know, OMITB is one of my favorite shows ever. I absolutely love everything about it, from the mystery of it all, to the characters, and all of the jokes. It’s just one of those shows that I look forward to watching the episode of every week when a new season drops, and this season was no exception.


As a whole, I loved getting to learn about Lester’s history and why he became a doorman in the first place! I think that’s one thing that OMITB does so well in every season. I love how they give us the stories of the murder victims and how it connects to solving their murder (like Lester’s bird whistle in this season!).


I think I am definitely getting much better at solving the murders though, because I CALLED it with the mayor. He just HAD to have been the murderer, and I knew. The way he was sneaking around everything and trying to get people’s votes had me too suspicious of him. I thought it was really interesting with the casino plot, and how it all came to be at the end. I shed a tear when I saw that Lester’s wife had bought herself an apartment in the Arconia!


But the thing I wanted to talk about the most was the setup for the murder of the next season. I cannot WAIT to see Tina Fey’s backstory into her character, Cinda! I was not expecting her to be the next victim at all, but this is one that I am ABSOLUTELY looking forward to watching. CINDA CANNING?! I can’t even.


My starting theory right now is this. We get the little tidbit from her podcast episode that she was trying to protect a girl from the UK and was sending her to the States to make sure that she was okay. Which leads us to the clip of Cinda in front of the Arconia. I think that she had gotten the girl over to New York, as she described in her podcast, but that once the girl got here, they switched clothes. Cinda dyed her hair to look like the girl she was protecting, and wore her clothes to trick whoever was tracking her down. So she was not actually the intended murder victim here, but got caught in the crossfire. And she knew that the only people who would be able to solve the murder, and protect the girl that she had come over to New York, was the OMITB crew


I am SO excited to see where next season takes us. They are so good about making each story unique, and not dragging out the “someone got murdered in the building AGAIN” plot line (which I love that they made fun of themselves in this last episode, with Cinda literally having to sling her hand over the gate for it to count as “in the building” hahah!). 


What did you guys think of the finale? Any theories on your end? I would love to hear your thoughts!


Until the next blog,


-Jess :)