Has a good plot. I just finished watching dead to me starring christina applegate and linda cardellini. It's a new netflix original series with 10 episodes.
Now what i enjoyed about the series was the different, twisted take on the friendship between Jen and Judy. If you've watched all 10 episodes you know what i mean.
So jen (christina) and judy (linda) meet at grief counseling, where judy quickly introduces herself to jen and tries to befriend her.
Jen just lost her husband, he was involved in a hit and run accident.
Linda Cardellini's character, Judy is quirky and weird but in a humorous way. She's the one who can have fun and see the best in everyone, while hiding a secret. Jen is very much a stoic person (most of the time) who, unlike Judy is not spiritual and will often say whatever's on her mind without thinking about other people around her.
Jen has two children with her deceased husband, both boys are having troubles at school, one is selling drugs and the other has anger issues.
Some people have said that this show is like Grace and Frankie, only darker and in a small way I can understand that but don't go into watching the show thinking it's like that, because at the same time it isn't like Grace and Frankie.
It's fun watching these two characters come together and be friends, they have a great chemistry and they really work together.
There were a couple of things however that I didn't really like about the show. One being that Nick (Judy's ex boyfriend) all of a sudden assuming Judy killed Jen's husband, Ted.
There was some evidence found at the scene, which was a taillight of a car. Information had came back finding that it belonged to a '66 mustang (the same model Jen owned) Nick was helping Jen find Ted's murderer by paying a visit to all the people who owned a that model car in the area. So even after Nick and Judy had split, he continued looking at people on that list.
One name was TRK Arts, which we later find that Steve (Judy's Ex-fiance) runs.
When Nick goes to pay them a visit she spots some of Judy's artwork in the window and immediately gets suspicious. He walks in and asks about a mustang, the younger worker knows nothing of a mustang and gets her boss, steve. When Steve introduces himself Nick knows who he is. Nick asks about a mustang and asks does it belong to Judy.
Now Nick quickly assuming was so out of character...there was no reason for him to believe that Judy owned the car, I feel like the writer's were rushing the whole idea of the other characters finding out, way too convenient, which Is just poor, lazy writing in my opinion.
The plot twist at the end really had me, Steve went to find judy at Jen's house, he sees Jen outside in her backyard. He's behaviour towards her quickly changes when she tells him that Judy told her that she hit ted.
At this point in the show, Steve's life has started to crumble and I can understand that he was nervous and trying to defend himself against Jen (who asked why he didn't stop to check on Ted) but it was too sudden and too convenient to the story.
I felt that the writers had made a quick decision to make Steve the bad guy of the story when we had previously not seen him as that.
So now here comes the big spoiler! Jen kills Steve and he ends up floating in her pool. Jen surprisingly calls Judy to come over and I assume to help her get rid of his body.
The show ended with Jen and Judy looking at steve's body face down in the pool.
Dead to me is a show that you can watch and not think about and there are moments where the story does get a little interesting, thinking back to it, the plotis a sociopath moving in with their victims family and gaining their trust. That's just SICK! It's twisted!
It definitely felt like the writer's were writing for a show with 24 episodes but had forgotten that it was only 10, with the way they rushed the last couple of episodes.
However for me, this wasn't a show where I was so excited to watch, I didn't actually binge watch it, like I would normally do in like a day. It did take me three or so days.....that doesn't make me a binge watcher does it lol.
I would recommend watching it, it's definitely a show to put on when you want to kill time.