According to Kristen Bell’s Netflix show, the secret to binge-worthy TV success is dead family members, divorce, hot yet creepy neighbors, and a lot of red wine.
Streaming now, The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window is an eight-part series that follows Anna, portrayed by Bell, a woman who has to move on with her life despite a dead daughter and a crumbling marriage. The actor also is the show’s executive producer, which gives her more creative freedom to explore the show’s heavy topics with grace and humor.
“Trying to convince different networks and streaming platforms what we were trying to do when the tone had really never been done before, that was some of my best acting,” Bell told USA Today. “Trust me, it’s going to be funny, and it’s going to be scary and suspenseful.”
Along with a cheeky long name that pokes fun at drama series of years past, the show also features typical dark elements you’d find in a cookie-cutter thriller: pained artists, widows, and even a blunt-bob haircut.
“The hairstyle was really important to me, and I know that that seems very surface, but I really wanted to create this Alfred Hitchcock heroine in a sort of Rear Window, Vertigo way, because she was looking through the front window so often, and she was peering through the blinds,” Bell explained to Entertainment Weekly.
Although comedic in nature, the show isn’t for those looking to binge a light-hearted show similar to Bell’s acting hit The Good Place. Unlike that NBC comedy, Bell’s new drama gives off a sense of eerie satire full of twists and turns. “I think that people will devour this show, because it’s sort of made to be binged; every single scene, practically, is a cliff-hanger,” the actor told EW, going on to say that “it builds suspense, like a normal mystery show could, but in increasing absurdity, which hopefully will make you laugh.”
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