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In a spoof of many psychological thrillers, The Woman Across the Street From the Girl in the Window on Netflix is a brilliant show that tells a great story. While there are many aspects of the show that seem odd or downright concerning, these are just one of the many reasons to binge the show. The story follows a depressed divorcee Anna Whitaker (Kristen Bell) whose daughter Elizabeth (Appy Pratt) died after her father, Douglas (Michael Ealy) who works as a forensic psychiatrist studying serial killers took her on a “Take Your Daughter to Work Day.” In a moment of gross negligence, Douglas left his daughter with a serial killer in the room where the tragedy takes place. Now, Anna spends most of her day drinking wine and combining them with class 4 psychotropic drugs.
One day, she sees her neighbor Neil Coleman’s (Tom Riley) girlfriend Lisa (Shelley Hennig) with blood gushing out of her neck, desperately getting Anna’s attention before collapsing to her death. Anna then pursues Lisa’s killer, despite everyone’s insistence that it was a hallucination. Many, including Neil, insisted that she was completely fine and not dead and that Anna had possibly hallucinated the whole thing. But Anna kept digging into the crime and her absence to see what was happening.
In the end, she finds out that the chil is actually the killer and even though it is completely unfeasible, the cops believe Anna and Douglas (her ex-husband) when they said that they murdered the child out of self-defense. Now that things have smoothed over with Douglas and Anna, they seem to get back together and even have another child together, hinting that things are better than ever. However, a scene in the end of the show when Anna is in the plane completely changes everything. She sits next to someone on the plane and after they have a short conversation, Anna falls into a drunken stupor from the Xanax and Vodka. After she wakes up to go to the restroom, she finds a body quite grotesquely placed in there.
Calling the cabin crew for help, she finds that the body has disappeared and the crew reassures her that there was no one in the seat beside her. It is definitely spooky, but this is a striking parallel to the first episode when the cop doesn’t believe her and instead thinks that she imagined up the murder because of the book she was reading.
While there are people who believe that this show must remain a limited series, the end cap definitely sets the character up for some juicy tales next season. This author is of the opinion that perhaps her own husband Douglas has been tampering with the medication he provides her that causes problems in the first place. Every time she is seen taking medication and alcohol there are some shady things going down. However, audiences won’t be able to find out unless there’s another season.
The Woman Across the Street From the Girl in the Window is streaming on Netflix.
