Audible Originals are here to spice up your summer, andMurder at the Patel Motelis offering plenty of laughs with its murder mystery premise. Written by Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock), who also stars in it, the comedic podcast follows an Agatha Christie-esque formula through the lens of an Indian-American family with secrets to bury. It was co-written by Zackary Grady and Achilles Stamatelaky, and Audible has teamed up with Broadway Video to bring the story to life.
The whodunit begins when Milan Patel (Pancholy), a cosmopolitan event planner, returns to his parents' Montana motel in small-town Montana only for his father to drown in the pool. The star-studded ensemble includesPitch Perfect’s Anna Camp, Murray Bartlett, Karan Soni, Poorna Jagannathan, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind, Adam Pally, and more.
Check out the excerpt above, and read on to learn a little bit more about the latest Audible Original.
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In the clip above, Pally’s character is going over the facts of the case and finds himself in disbelief that the last thing Milan said to his father was, “My life would be better off if you were just dead.” While that is a bad enough start, things get worse when it’s revealed that the pen Milan used to try to save his father was not an EpiPen but an Ozempic pen. The label was peeled off, meaning perhaps the father was hiding his usage from the family… or maybesomeone else wanted to conceal the pen’s real purpose during the false rescue.
Whatever skeletons are hidden in the Patel family closet, the audio drama (executive produced by Britta von Schoeler and Pancholy himself, and produced by Mark Valdez) approaches them with a light touch that befits the comedic tone. Many of the voice actors have already proven their cops in comedy, whether it’s Soni inDeadpool & Wolverineor Jagannathan inNever Have I Ever. But perhaps more important is the human touch, which ensures that the journey of a gay son reconnecting with his estranged family amidst a whirlwind of tragedy never feels trite or overplayed.
Murder at the Patel Motelpremieres June 5, and you canpre-order the audio drama on Audible now.
