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This is Bell’s first major TV role since the hit NBC comedy The Good Place, though other recent credits have included supporting roles in Gossip Girl, Ultra City Smiths, Housebroken and the first season of Central Park. Bell is of course also well known for her roles like voicing Anna in the Frozen franchise, Veronica Mars and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Of course, as a Netflix original, a subscription to Netflix, which starts at $13.99 per month, is going to be needed to watch the show. Anna's online sleuthing unearths a close connection to Neil--and one tragedy after another. During a trip to a lighthouse, Anna's suspicions run wild.Anna's online sleuthing unearths a close connection to Neil--and one tragedy after another.
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Netflix's The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window TV Review - CBR
Netflix's The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window TV Review.
Posted: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT [source]
"With 'The Girl In The Window…,' the show’s creators and their writers have managed to hit the right notes in parodying the psychological thriller genre while ensuring that the thriller itself isn’t stupid." The series follows Anna (Bell) who lives a fairly monotonous life. Heartbroken and alone, she indulges in wine and stares out her window day in and day out until a new, handsome neighbor moves in across the street. For a moment, things seems hopeful, until she (maybe?) witnesses a murder across the street and begins to question herself and her memory. Then Anna thinks she witnesses a murder, causing her to attract first curiosity and then suspicion from Detective Lane (Christina Anthony, wasted).
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Anna decides to take the law into her own hands, an initiative that’s somewhat hampered by her challenges leaving the house. Creators Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, and Larry Dorf (the stars/writers of Nobodies), and director Michael Lehmann (Heathers), are clearly well-versed in the genre they're toying with here. The premiere establishes a simulacrum of the standard suburban psychological-thriller setting, complete with all of the obvious "something's not right here" warning signs.
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Anyway, you don’t need to be a 2010s thriller fan to guess the softly lampooned cliches that lie within. The woman on the edge who looks like she has never been within 10ft of any actual edge, the sexy suspenseful vibes, and the hot guy who may or may not be a murderer. What’s really creepy about this “darkly comedic”, “built to be binged” limited series is that its title is the only spoofy thing about it. Otherwise, TWITHATSFTGITW, starring and executive-produced by the usually funny Kristen Bell playing it bewilderingly straight, is not funny at all.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see some fun cameos also show up at some point. In fact the trailer already shows one with Bell’s The Good Place co-star Marc Evan Jackson.
As is Netflix’s standard operating procedures, all eight of the episodes for the comedy series will be available immediately. Then the ending of the show happened which left the doors wide open for a season 2. Indeed, some point out that Netflix on the app labels the show as “season 1” as opposed to limited series like other shows do. Netflix has a growing collection of limited series and we’ve never experienced one getting renewed. It does happen elsewhere, however, with the likes of Your Honor at Showtime and The White Lotus at HBO getting season renewals even after they intended to be limited or mini-series as they’re also known.
In lieu of story developments, we're treated to detours and diversions, protracted set ups, and sporadically lethargic pacing. Anna's early infatuation with Neil takes her down an instagram rabbit hole as she looks for dirt on his girlfriend, Lisa (Shelley Hennig), but her amateur sleuthing eventually leads her to question whether Neil is the nice guy he seems to be. The writers are especially fond of elongating their comedy — perhaps with the hope that if they draw their jokes out long enough, they'll go from funny to not funny back to funny again. It worked brilliantly for The Simpsons and Sideshow Bob, but here it just adds another layer of drag to an already sluggish endeavor. Characters stew in awkward situations that never quite break the comedy barrier — as when Anna's acquaintance (Ramras) notes that the phrase "autoerotic asphyxiation" is difficult to pronounce, and then the two women just stare at each other for a few beats. Anna says "bingo" after unearthing an important piece of information about Neil — once, twice, three times in a 90-second scene.
"And we switched to hibiscus tea, which is quite lovely. It's a little tangy and tart and I had to pee all day, every day, but it was kind of a lovely thing to sit and stay hydrated." "I didn't slip in anything real because I was already coming to work pretty drunk," Bell told E! In an interview with EntertainmentWeekly (full of spoilers it’s worth noting), they spoke to Rachel Ramras, Larry Dorf, and Hugh Davidson who serve as the three showrunners for the Netflix series.
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“Woman in the House…” is basically like that, but for the recent post-”Gone Girl” trend of female-led airport thrillers turned into cinematic psycho-thrillers. And it’s occasionally diverting for a while … until the show’s one joke starts to run out. “It’s based on all of these psychological novels that were written for women, by women,” Bell added. There’s so much formula to it that we thought it was about time that somebody poked fun at it."
Her life suddenly gets a little more interesting when a handsome, bearded Englishman named Neil (Tom Riley) moves in across the street, along with a nine-year-old daughter (Samsara Yett’s precocious Emma) who could be the spitting image of her own lost child. But one night, she sees—or thinks she sees—Neil’s new girlfriend Lisa (Shelley Hennig), gasping at the window, her throat slit. The next day, Neil tells a frantic Anna that what she saw wasn’t real; Lisa just left for Seattle, you see.
Back in 2015, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig starred in an actual Lifetime movie called A Deadly Adoption. It was not supposed to be funny — and that, Ferrell later explained, was the joke. "I always had this idea to take comedy people and do a Lifetime movie straight-up," he told Conan O'Brien in 2018. "We played it totally straight." Audiences were understandably disappointed — they came for a parody and instead got performance art. The idea is that Anna, who is struggling with grief, drinks too much and takes too many pills, thinks she sees a murder.
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