re: Netflix- The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window

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A bad flaw in the writing

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I think (hope?) it was intentional to make fun of the absurd and outrageous twist endings in all these stupid Woman in the Window, Gone Girl, Girl on the Train type shows.

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If I remember right, the Woman in the Window twist is that the killer is the teenaged son of the couple across the street she befriended in the first act. So this parody’s killer lines up pretty well.

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If I remember right, the Woman in the Window twist...

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You're right. I just watched The Woman in the Window last night. The twists line up, and the parody exaggerates the silliness. I'm glad I watched the parody first.

On episode 4. How long does it take to fix a mailbox??

Finished it last night. Was a good binge. Has a goofy title though for a show that really wasn't a comedy. I went into it thinking it would be a comedy spoof and it was more straight line than I thought it would be.

I do think the twist at the end was kind of stupid

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I do think the twist at the end was kind of stupid

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Of course it was, which was the point

The whole show was ridiculous and that is what made it so enjoyable

Well I won't be eating at the Napoleon residence any time soon

Any salmonella is cooked off. Waking the meat can ruin the texture.
Most chefs don't wash their meat.

If it was meant to be subtle comedy, it was too subtle for me. I thought it was just stupid the whole time. It either needed to be like Angie Tribeca (as others have said) or straight. This was just dumb.

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I think it falls flat

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Agreed. They take it too seriously for the majority of the show- it just doesn't work imo. I thought it was just a bad show with hilariously-bad plot lines (like the dead daughter) until the second-to-last episode.

When it comes down to it, a show this bad with this bad of a title very easily could have been legitimately produced by Netflix.

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Has a goofy title though for a show that really wasn't a comedy. I went into it thinking it would be a comedy spoof and it was more straight line than I thought it would be.

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What? Reading this thread I feel like I’m the one taking crazy pills. It was 1000% a comedy and parody, specifically of that Amy Adams movie. (So much that after just a few minutes I turned it off thinking I’d seen it before, only to realize later that what I’d seen had Amy Adams in it and resumed watching.) It may not be everyone’s cup of comedy tea, but it never took itself too seriously. It always knew what it was, which was an over-the-top ridiculous spoof playing off Kristen Bell’s “serious,” deadpan performance (which I thought was brilliant btw).

I thought the writing was great and didn’t miss the mark at all. Again, I certainly get not digging it, but you’re missing the mark if you think the show missed its mark, because I think the a big part of the mark it aimed for was to give the perception that it had missed the mark. Which it did, by missing the mark. Which in this case was hitting the mark. Of missing the mark. (nod to the Kristen Bell voice over quoted above me, which was one of my favorite parts.) For example:

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The twist at the end that some posters thought was bad writing because it kinda cheated, never earning the right for the killer to be girl by leaving clues (it could be argued it did actually leave a few in retrospect) was itself parodying all the movies that commit the same sin of not earning their respective twists. I think it’s just a unique show that doesn’t have a predecessor to point to as a baseline of what it’s supposed to be, so that probably made it confusing, not knowing what kind of show we’re supposed to be watching. Maybe it’s because I finally realized it is a direct spoof of that Amy Adams movie that helped me kinda “know” what lens to watch it through.