Dead to Me
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A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Dead to Me is a standout series, plain and simple. It’s the kind of show Netflix was made for. It’s a show that walks a variety of lines while managing to be fulfilling at every turn. It’s a comedy, it’s a mystery, it’s a drama, it’s a buddy flick, it’s everything all wrapped into a very human story about grief. There are those that will take issue with some of the series’ more heightened reveals, but none of it will matter because the tonal tightrope the show walks in every episode is nothing short of stunning.
Netflix series 'Dead to Me' starts as a buddy comedy but turns into a thriller with diminishing returns. Read Alan Sepinwall's review.The tonal shifts back and forth between deadpan comedy and psychological drama are rarely smooth, with the two halves tending to undercut one another. Cardellini, in one of the best performances of her career, works wonders in making the comic and tragic halves of Judy feel like the same character.
