by Pa Rock
TV Junkie
If you are one of the few Americans who have yet to watch the inspired comedy/mayhem series, Dead to Me, the fast-approaching winter season would be the ideal time to hunker down in front of the fire and correct that cultural oversight. The final season - the third in the series - has recently arrived on Netflix, and the complete series, thirty episodes, is now available to Netflix subscribers.
The series revolves around the emerging friendship of two middle-aged women whose lives sometimes resemble those of a modern-day Lucy and Ethel, and at other times seem more closely akin to Thelma and Louise. Jen Harding (Christina Applegate) is a recent widow whose husband was killed in a hit-and-run incident one night while jogging. Her life is already complicated with a full-time job of selling real estate and raising her two adolescent sons, when she meets Judy Hale (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit with a clouded past, at a grief group.
The story that grows from this seemingly chance meeting represents some of the most clever writing ever to grace the small screen. The show is a literal roller-coaster plot twists and turns and loop-de-loops with surprises popping up at a breakneck pace. The situations that Jen and Judy find themselves are often criminal in nature, but they can also be poignant, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, nonetheless.
For nostalgia buffs there is a very brief on-screen reunion in the final season of Dead to Me between the two Bundy women, Peg (Katy Sagal) and her television daughter, Kelly (Christina Applegate), from the hit series of the 1980's and the 1990's, Married with Children.
Dead to Me is superior entertainment framed by good writing and finished out with exceptional acting. It is a streaming experience that does not disappoint!
I highly recommend this one!
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