When Netflix's Dead to Me debuted last spring, the series seemed to hinge, like so many murder mysteries before it, on a single-season premise.
Starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, the comedy-thriller admittedly wasn't a traditional murder mystery. All signs pointed — correctly — toward the inevitable reveal that boho drifter Judy (Cardellini) befriended recent widow Jen (Applegate) via their grief support group because Judy killed Jen's husband in a hit-and-run and felt desperately guilty about it.
The mystery was less about the whodunnit and more about how the lonely, explosively angry Jen would react to such a crazy-making betrayal.
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