Okay so there aren't as many seasons of Dead to Me as there are New Girl- only 2 seasons released so far but they're so different I don't want to cover the second season in this season. And I want to talk about what I expect for the third season when I review the second season next week.
So in Season One Jen and Judy first meet in the first episode. They meet in a grief counseling group- Judy recognizes Jen because she's a realtor and she saw her on a park bench and they bond pretty quickly.Jen's husband just passed away in a terrible hit and run and Jen can't sleep since her husband died. Judy tells Jen to call her if she can't sleep... Jen can't sleep so she calls her and then Judy starts coming over to Jen's house... and eventually Jen tries to go to Judy's house and she finds out Judy's been lying to her a little bit.
So once Judy explains why she lies to Jen and to the grief counseling group- she's accepted into the group even though she joined under false pretenses and Jen invites Judy to live with her in her husband's pool house because Judy was living in a retirement community that she worked at after Judy's bad breakup with her fiance... it was just a lot.
I'm being vague with a lot of details because I don't really want to give things away... but Jen ends up working with Judy's ex fiance and he says Judy is crazy and... we do find out that Judy was driving the car with her ex fiance-Steve and they were the ones that hit Jen's husband.
And it does kind of seem creepy and stalkery that Judy is living with Jen... but Judy is honestly such a nice person and SUCH a good friend for Jen that you kind of know that she's not this terrible scary stalker that Steve and other people portray her as.
Jen's anger is also a very important and a big factor in the second season of the show. It's always apparent through the show that she was angry- but she always seemed like such a loving wife to her husband... but there are details of their marriage Jen doesn't know like the fact that her husband is having an affair or the details of some of the fights that they had and how their marriage really was. Plus Jen's mother in law is... a nightmare to say the least. And guns are mentioned a lot and shown a lot so... it's pretty interesting.
Over all there aren't that many shows that get female friendships quite like this show does and this season in particular did a flawless job showing us how much these characters loved and needed one another.
The cast is also really great. Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, and James Marsden are perfect. This season is really great... but the second season I think really creates the amazing and dark world these characters live in and... there are just so many coincidences that happen and it's just brilliantly written.
So yeah. I really love this show and I definitely recommend you guys watch it!
Bye!
-Shannon
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