Series · Netflix · 2019
Dead to Me
Grief is real. The show's answer is a conspiracy and a laugh.
Christina Applegate plays a woman whose husband is dead and whose anger is understandable. That performance is the only reason a serious person might press play. The series then decides the killer next door is the soulmate, and that hiding a death is the joke that binds them. Friendship is a real good. This is not what friendship is for.
Leave it. If you want a story about a widow who is allowed to be angry, you do not need one that rewards the lie.
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Industry
4/10
Jen sells houses. The work is there so the lie has an address.
Household
3/10
A widow and two sons. The friendship that comforts her is the crime.
Piety
2/10
Mourning is a mood. Nothing is sacred enough to stop the next cover-up.
Courage
4/10
They take risks for each other. The risks are mostly how to stay uncaught.
Republic
3/10
The law is the thing they are outrunning, and the show is on their side.
Temperance
2/10
Wine, rage, and the body in the story are played for release.
Truth
3/10
The premise is a lie told to a grieving woman, and you are asked to ship the liars.
Stewardship
3/10
The sons inherit a house built on not saying what happened to their father.
Live historicallyTell a hard truth to a friend this week instead of helping them keep a secret that is eating them.
