The finale of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is spectacular. Netzwelt explains all the big twists and looks ahead to Season 2.
Kristen Bell as Anna in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Credit: Colleen E. Hayes/ Netflix)
The highly entertaining crime satire “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” has flickered across the screens of Netflix. Find out all about the big twists and turns in the show’s finale here. We explain to you the resolution and the end of season 1 and how it will continue in a possible 2nd edition.
So who is the killer? Have fun with it!
Warning: From here on, there are spoilers for the plot and the finale of “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”!
Is Lisa/ Chastity really dead?
Did Anna actually murder Lisa?
Did Buell Murder Lisa?
That’s the killer!
Why did Emma commit so many murders?
The crazy scene on the plane: This could continue in season 2
Is Lisa/ Chastity really dead?
The events of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window kick in when the main character, Anna (Kristen Bell), thinks she saw a murder. But in the house of the attractive neighbor Neil (Tom Riley), was his girlfriend Lisa (Shelley Hennig) actually murdered? Or do tons of red wine and pills just trigger hallucinations in Anna?
Yes, Lisa really is dead. Her dismembered body is found towards the end of the Netflix series. First, her boyfriend Rex (Benjamin Levy Aguilar), a stripper, is arrested – in Anna’s house after he and Anna have spent a night of love together. But Rex is free again, as he has a watertight alibi for the time of the murder.
Together with Lisa, whose real name is Chastity, Rex had chosen the grieving Neil as an allegedly easy victim that the scammers wanted to rip off. But that still doesn’t explain why Lisa/ Chastity had to die and who killed her…
Did Anna actually murder Lisa?
In the meantime, the main character Anna also considers herself to be Lisa’s murderer, since she was killed with a painting knife, just like the painter Anna uses. But Anna goes to the attic of her house and finds a painting by Lisa there, which she has destroyed. Anna had flashbacks of stabbing Lisa. In fact, she only stabbed this painting.
So Anna is not the killer of Lisa/Chastity.
Did Buell Murder Lisa?
Handyman Buell (Cameron Britton) is constantly in front of Anna’s house and just never seems to be able to finish the repair of her mailbox. This is very suspicious! So is he Lisa’s killer?
Buell or: The Infinite Repair of a Mailbox (Source: Colleen E. Hayes/ Netflix)
No! The Buell is (now) a good guy – with one tiny exception. Unbeknownst to Anna, he secretly lives in her attic. After Anna’s ex-husband Douglas (Michael Ealy) hired him for a small job, he just never left because he wanted to protect her after Douglas left.
While Buell is totally weird, he doesn’t hurt anyone either. Before Anna understands any of this, however, she sees Buell running to Neil’s house with a hammer. Despite her fear of the rain, Anna now goes over there too and find out who the real killer is in “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”.
That’s the killer!
The real culprit is Emma (Samsara Yett), Neil’s nine-year-old daughter. But first things first! Anna goes to Neil’s house to stop Buell. However, she finds him there stabbed – and besides, neil is dead too. His throat was slit.
Samsara Yett as Emma in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Credit: Colleen E. Hayes/ Netflix)
Anna sees the little girl Emma. She’s holding a knife and has blood all over her pajamas. Emma explains: “You adults always underestimate what children are capable of. Really stupid of you. But I also underestimated myself. I didn’t know I could murder someone.
Emma had stolen Anna’s palette knife in order to blame her neighbor for the murder.
An extensive fight develops between Anna and the little girl, in which Anna initially appears to be severely injured and to be defeated. But at the last moment she manages to turn things around and kill Emma.
Why did Emma commit so many murders?
The only question that remains is why the little girl killed. She explains that too. Lisa/ Chastity had to die because she didn’t want to buy Emma’s Girl Scout cookies. Emma’s father Neil didn’t notice as he was practicing with his ventriloquist dummy. Neil had turned on the water so no one could hear him.
Because of Neil’s miserable ventriloquism skills, he had to die again.
Her pregnant mother also killed little psychopath Emma in the past of “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”. She couldn’t swim, so Emma pushed her off the dock into the water.
But why? Emma wanted to punish her for wanting to have another child. Her teacher then killed Emma right away.
The crazy scene on the plane: This could continue in season 2
But wait, in the very last scene of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, is there another murder happening?
I agree. After the events just described, Anna was reconciled with her ex-husband Douglas and they had another child. In the very final scene of the Netflix series, Anna boards a plane to visit her good friend Sloane (Mary Holland) in New York.
Glenn Close in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Source: Screenshot Netflix)
A glamorous elderly lady (Glenn Close) sits next to her, checking her hair in her powder box. Meanwhile, Anna no longer drinks red wine. Instead, she downs vodka and keeps popping pills like they’re Smarties.
After falling asleep from this combination, Anna wakes up and goes to the plane’s toilet. There she finds the elderly woman dead.
Anna alerts the plane crew, but the body is gone. Anna is afraid that her hallucinations will return – also because the flight crew claims that no woman has ever sat next to Anna on the plane.
But on the seat next to her, Anna finally finds the elderly lady’s powder compact. She says “bingo” because now she knows that all of this really happened. And Season 1 of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is over.
But will Season 2 (which hasn’t been confirmed by Netflix yet) be about this exact murder case? That seems entirely possible. Presumably the flight crew would be involved in the murder in some way – otherwise why would Anna be told the obvious lie that there was no one sitting next to her?
However, it also seems conceivable that a second season of the Netflix series (should it come) will be about a completely different criminal case. A return of the main character Anna is not absolutely necessary here either. Your story could also be told – and a whole new main character in season 2 take the reins. Then “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” would mutate into an anthology series. But let’s wait and see whether the Netflix streaming service will even order a second edition of the funny crime parody.
| Rate The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window | |
| genre | Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery |
| first airing | 01/28/2022 |
| First broadcast in Germany | 12/31/2022 |
| home page | netflix.com |
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| network | Netflix |
production | Gloria Sanchez Productions |
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