The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28/22
12-08-21, 04:38 PM
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The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28/22
For heartbroken Anna (Kristen Bell), every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor (Tom Riley) and his adorable daughter move in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder... Or did she? The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window premieres January 28, only on Netflix.
This is another Netflix limited series
Apparently this has an 8 episode order.
12-08-21, 05:11 PM
#2
Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Feels like the title needs a “Gone Girl on a Train” in there too.
Love Kristen Bell and those types of female-driven novel-turned-movie mysteries seem ripe for parody. Don’t know about it being an 8 episode series and not a one-off movie.
Love Kristen Bell and those types of female-driven novel-turned-movie mysteries seem ripe for parody. Don’t know about it being an 8 episode series and not a one-off movie.
12-08-21, 05:56 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
It's like one of those spoof films like Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinking your Juice in the Hood. 
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12-08-21, 09:01 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I'll watch Kristen Bell in anything . . . that doesn't involve defecation in a cup.
12-08-21, 09:14 PM
#5
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
^ Don’t limit yourself, bro.
The title is a straight-up goofy parody but, with the exception of that lighter moment at the very end, the trailer makes it look like a serious thriller.
The title is a straight-up goofy parody but, with the exception of that lighter moment at the very end, the trailer makes it look like a serious thriller.
12-08-21, 11:35 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Yeah, I don't get it. The title comes across as a parody, but the trailer was serious. And if that's the case, this would appear to be just a straight out retread of a few movies that offers little to nothing new.
12-09-21, 06:37 AM
#7
Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Bell means I am in 100%.
It’s seems to me it is just a teaser trailer cut to look like the films it is parodying. I think the title is pretty obvious to say this is parody. The writers of this have worked on Robot Chicken and created the Mike Tyson Mysteries… so safe to assume it will be a comedy.
Articles say it is described as “a darkly comedic, wine-soaked, satirical slant on the psychological thriller that will have you guessing who, what, where, why and how in the hell?! until the very end.”
It’s seems to me it is just a teaser trailer cut to look like the films it is parodying. I think the title is pretty obvious to say this is parody. The writers of this have worked on Robot Chicken and created the Mike Tyson Mysteries… so safe to assume it will be a comedy.
Articles say it is described as “a darkly comedic, wine-soaked, satirical slant on the psychological thriller that will have you guessing who, what, where, why and how in the hell?! until the very end.”
01-04-22, 09:51 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
01-04-22, 10:10 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I can't remember the stars or the name but this was already made into a movie.... (which I loved so I'll watch this).
Edit it's called The Woman in the Window and came out early 2021 with Amy Adams and Julianne Moore.
Edit it's called The Woman in the Window and came out early 2021 with Amy Adams and Julianne Moore.
Last edited by GatorDeb; 01-04-22 at 10:30 PM.
01-05-22, 04:41 PM
#10
Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Funny thing is I just saw Rear Window again and while I get it being parodied in general, Rear Window is just such an incredibly effective engaging movie that holds up amazingly well.
01-05-22, 05:23 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
The title is a play on that. It is a parody. Not the same. That movie was terrible.
01-07-22, 10:00 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Yeah, The Woman in the Window had a similarly heavily medicated lead. Netflix bought that dud after a few years on the shelf and it is ripe for spoofing, as are all these Post-Gone Girl adaptations.
01-07-22, 10:51 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Haters, all of you, I loved that movie I think it was a chick flick that's why it was not everyone's cup of tea here.
I think it was a chick flick that's why it was not everyone's cup of tea here.
01-28-22, 12:30 PM
#15
Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
This just doesn’t work at all.
01-28-22, 04:25 PM
#16
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
It reminds me of that Lifetime movie Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig did.
01-30-22, 10:10 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
7 mediocre episodes with no originality or mystery. Then the last episode was so ludicrous it was all worth it
01-30-22, 11:51 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I am on Episode 2 but I am going to put this here and come back to it
Spoiler:
01-30-22, 11:55 AM
#19
Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
If only the rest of the series was absurd as the finale. I did think the finale was “good”, but the rest just did not work and couldn’t convey the satirical tone they were going for well enough.
01-30-22, 03:07 PM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Yeah episode 8 is the only one that even remotely lived up to the premise.
01-31-22, 08:48 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I'm really baffled by this show and what it wants to be. I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed the tombstone had a different epitaph every time she went there. The simple mailbox is never fixed and where the hell does an unemployed artist get all her money for a nice house, wine etc. There is so much that does not make any sense and so much absurdist material I hardly know where to begin. Then to end how it did? How the hell is this the number one show on Netflix?
No way in hell I get sucked into the inevitable season 2. It was mildly entertaining but there is no payoff in the end and its really not rewatchable or even worth watching given the ending. If you can avoid this one please do yourself a favor. I give it a solid D, I was waffling between D- and D+ but based on the ending I say D.
No way in hell I get sucked into the inevitable season 2. It was mildly entertaining but there is no payoff in the end and its really not rewatchable or even worth watching given the ending. If you can avoid this one please do yourself a favor. I give it a solid D, I was waffling between D- and D+ but based on the ending I say D.
01-31-22, 09:25 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I'm really baffled by this show and what it wants to be. I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed the tombstone had a different epitaph every time she went there. The simple mailbox is never fixed and where the hell does an unemployed artist get all her money for a nice house, wine etc. There is so much that does not make any sense and so much absurdist material I hardly know where to begin. Then to end how it did? How the hell is this the number one show on Netflix?
No way in hell I get sucked into the inevitable season 2. It was mildly entertaining but there is no payoff in the end and its really not rewatchable or even worth watching given the ending. If you can avoid this one please do yourself a favor. I give it a solid D, I was waffling between D- and D+ but based on the ending I say D.
No way in hell I get sucked into the inevitable season 2. It was mildly entertaining but there is no payoff in the end and its really not rewatchable or even worth watching given the ending. If you can avoid this one please do yourself a favor. I give it a solid D, I was waffling between D- and D+ but based on the ending I say D.
My girlfriend and I enjoyed it. It was hilarious I did guess the who the killer would be from the first or second episode because I thought it would be the most ridiculous way to end it. I really enjoyed the absurd nature of it all.
01-31-22, 09:32 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
Yeah the whole show is a spoof of "house wife sees a murder" genre, albeit the tone seems a little off for that - they went with the tone of an actual one with extreme exaggeration. The Netflix keywords were right at least: "Deadpan, Absurd, Offbeat"
I think they wanted to do a Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz where the movies are also good versions of what they're making fun of (Only Murders in the Building did a great job of that recently as well), but they missed the boat on that front and wound up closer to A Deadly Adoption with more comedic bits thrown in.
I think they wanted to do a Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz where the movies are also good versions of what they're making fun of (Only Murders in the Building did a great job of that recently as well), but they missed the boat on that front and wound up closer to A Deadly Adoption with more comedic bits thrown in.
Last edited by RichC2; 01-31-22 at 09:43 AM.
01-31-22, 10:35 AM
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
You know this was a joke show, right? The joke was the mailbox never got fixed.
My girlfriend and I enjoyed it. It was hilarious I did guess the who the killer would be from the first or second episode because I thought it would be the most ridiculous way to end it. I really enjoyed the absurd nature of it all.
My girlfriend and I enjoyed it. It was hilarious I did guess the who the killer would be from the first or second episode because I thought it would be the most ridiculous way to end it. I really enjoyed the absurd nature of it all.
01-31-22, 02:55 PM
#25
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Re: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) -- Kristen Bell - 1/28
I was having a hard time getting into it. I think I'll give it another shot.