It featured a most improbable friendship between two imperfect (anti-)heroines who made us laugh, cry while exasperating us on the side: we named “Dead To Me”, the sarcastic, the disastrous, the addictive .
Jen Harding is a real estate agent from Laguna Beach who meets Judy Hale at a grief support group. Jen mourns her husband, who was hit by a car and left for dead on the side of the road, while Judy mourns her fiancé who died of a heart attack.
Cowering in her pain, Jen uses anger and resentment as an outlet. Opposite her, Judy is a free and eccentric spirit who tries to communicate her positivity. This difference will soon be the foundation of their deep and powerful friendship – despite the fact that Judy is hiding a terrible secret…
On the menu, lies, blackmail and betrayals in a black comedy-drama that will make you laugh and cry and keep you in suspense with its endless twists and turns. Dead To Me follows in the footsteps of Desperate Housewives, Big Little Lies, Why Women Kill and Good Girls, offering its own set of dark mysteries and crimes to unravel, while bringing together legendary actresses on screen – here the brilliant Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini – perfectly embodying imperfect and multi-dimensional women. And no, Christina Applegate is not just the eternal teenager from Married with Children: discover 5 things to know about the actress here.
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Created by Liz Feldman (2 Broke Girls), Dead To Me debuted on Netflix in May 2019 and won over its audience with its dark storylines, sarcastic tone, and addictive cliffhangers that keep you clicking on the next episode over and over again.
If the series, rated 4.1 out of 5 by AlloCiné spectators, was nominated for the Emmys in 2020, it was above all its casting which amazed us – and the downright palpable alchemy between its two leads in particular. Three nominations in a row for Christina Applegate for each season of the show, one for Linda Cardellini and one for the entire cast: you understand, the two actresses and their co-stars are the strength of this drama. And here are even more reasons to discover the series that has unfairly gone unnoticed…
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Finally, know that this is perhaps the last role of Christina Applegate on screen since the actress was forced to put her career on hold due to multiple sclerosis, and for that alone, it’s worth the detour.
Dead To Mecreated by Liz Feldman With Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden…
3 seasons to watch on Netflix.