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- Amy Ryan as Jan Bellows (season 1; guest seasons 2, 4), a professional bassoonist who begins dating Charles, and later his stunt double Sazz
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Oct 19, 2021 · She would be the one to know: Ryan plays one in the first season of the whodunit comedy “Only Murders in the Building,” the finale of which arrived to Hulu on Tuesday. And that bassoonist,...
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Oct 23, 2021 · Jan (Amy Ryan) innocently playing bassoon. Credit: craig blankenhorn / HULU. Only Murders in the Building may be over for now, but that just means we have unlimited time to watch and...
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1 day ago · Jan, played by Amy Ryan, is a quirky, talented bassoon player who lives in the Arconia building and starts a romantic relationship with Charles. Initially, Jan seemed like one of those mild ...
Oct 12, 2021 · Did Amy Ryan‘s Jan kill Tim Kono (Julian Cihi)? And if she didn’t, why was there a bassoon cleaner in Tim Kono’s sex toy box?
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- History
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Early Life
Jan describes herself as having had "two childhoods" - the first where she was an only child in a happy family, and the second where her parents got divorced, her father barely paid attention to her and she had a new half-sister. Jan used to play the flute, but switched to the bassoon after her half-sister started playing it.
Dating and Murdering Tim
At some point, Jan met Timand they started dating. Eventually, Tim broke things off, which Jan believed was due to him finding someone else. Unable to cope with being second yet again, Jan invited him over under the guise of him needing to pick up his things and offered him a drink for old time's sake. She had poisoned the drink and after Tim left, she played a recording of herself playing the bassoon and went to his place, where she watched him die from the poison and then used his gun to sh...
Meeting Charles
Jan met Charleswhen she entered an elevator he was on. He deduced based on the case she was carrying that she was a musician and she confirmed that she was the first chair bassoonist for the City Symphony. Charles realized she was the source of the bassoon he could hear from across the courtyard, a sound he liked.
Jan initially appears to be sweet and quirky. However, her later actions reveal that she is capable of immense jealousy, rage and cruelty, and the sweet personality is a front she puts on in order to function in society. She cannot deal with being second to anyone, which drives her to extreme actions. She is very interested in psychology and commun...
Jan first met Tim in the elevator and they began a relationship. However, Jan believed Tim was seeing another woman after finding an engagement ring he bought from Angel Inc. She became consumed by jealousy and plotted to murder him. She invited him to her apartment to collect some of his possessions, then proposed a drink "for old times' sake". She put a lethal dose of secobarbital in his drink, which he drank. He left her apartment and made it up to his apartment before the poison kicked in...
As with Tim, Jan first meets Charles in the elevator, where they have a conversation about her bassoon. Shortly after, Charles hears Jan playing her bassoon through the open window, and joins in on his accordion. They keep playing together, until Jan suddenly disappears. A few seconds later, she slips a note under his door inviting him for dinner. On their first date, Jan confesses that she hates being second to anybody, and that in her last relationship, the guy never put her first. Charles...
She started dating Sazz Patakisome time after her arrest.
Jan is associated with red and black: traditional "femme fatale" colors. She also wears clothes of a beige/fawn color, most notably when she is stabbed. This is perhaps to make herself seem softer...Amy Ryan does not actually play the bassoon in the episodes, but she studied tapes of bassoonist Jackie Henderson playing the pieces used in the episodes and imitated her breathing pattern and fing...There are subtle hints that indicate to Jan being the killer:Only Murders in the Building Season 4's surprise Jan cameo with Amy Ryan's return offers a lot of deep insight into how much Sazz cared about Charles. ... They even made sweet bassoon-accordion ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Amy Ryan on Breaking Bad in Only Murders in the Building. The versatile Oscar nominee got to try on a dastardly new hat in Hulu’s blockbuster comedy mystery—and play the girlfriend of her...
