You gotta respect the Netflix hustle. Makes a movie. People make fun of it. Netflix doubles down and produces a mini-series making fun of the original movie.
I mean it probably wasn’t Netflix’s idea and the project was pitched to them by outside producers/writers but they did choose to fund it and put it on their platform
@@phosphenevision the original was also in limbo and not produced by Netflix whatsoever, just eventually distributed by them. it had been made before and studios apparently passed it around for like a year, give or take. we can assume it had probably seen several edits and reshoots once Netflix acquired it which accounts for a part of the mess. so if it was more cost than it was worth after all the terrible reviews despite talent involved, I guess satire of it and other similar titles that pulls in viewers easily puts the company in peoples' good graces. but realistically, it was just an obvious thing for them to acquire and people seem to like it so it paid off, unlike the original lol
I seriously thought she was lying or delusional about how her daughter died. But no,eaten by a serial killer while her father watched from the other side of the door.
was there at least a fun shot where for no reason whatsoever suddenly the table is decked out with a table cloth, fine dining plates, cuttlery and such and the child is somehow cooked as perfectly seasoned steak?
I didn't realise that "Divorced, Alcoholic, Depressed Woman has her life spiral out of control when she believes she's witnessed a murder" was a new genre, but then this miniseries popped up!
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okay, i am gonna say that developing a phobia of rain because "it rained the day my family died" isn't actually too far-fetched. phobias are created when the brain associates a trauma with some sort of stimulus such as rain or spiders or the colour yellow, and exposure to that stimulus induces the anxiety of the original trauma. but yeah, the whole 'bring your daughter to work as a forensic psychiatrist with serial killers' is stupid. the phobia tho? pretty feasible.
oh wow you just helped me realise why I developed a phobia for cockroaches in the last few years. I always had this idea that you kinda were born with a phobia for some reason, so I was surprised to have developed it, but now I understand. Thanks
I think some phobias can be seemingly causeless, like personally I’ve always been terribly afraid of needles and never known why. Sure, later on I’ve developed good reasons to be scared of needles, but that wasn’t how it was initially. A lot of common fears, such as arachnophobia, nyctophobia, coulrophobia, etc aren’t often caused by any specific thing in a person’s life. That doesn’t negate your point about trauma causing phobias, it most certainly can, but it’s certainly not the only cause.
Reminds me of the “tumblr jelly trauma” thing. I checked and if you google, there’s a screenshot on reddit about it and more discussion about “weird” triggers.
I audible laughed at the "He's been fixing the mailbox for 3 years." I felt like the wine gag could have been funnier if she was pouring it into increasingly larger glasses. I fast forward through most of the end fight, point received but it ran too long and failed to be interesting enough to hold attention all the way through. I still want to know how the kid got the body out in the woods.
She chopped her up. And used her wagon she sold chocolate on to carry the parts. She murdered her while her dad was practicing his ventriloquist act upstairs with the water running so he didn’t hear it. Lol
Making each episode 30 minutes or less was genius in that it never felt heavy or like a slog. Also Kristen Bell is fucking delightful, she's so difficult not to enjoy it's annoying. Her use of "Bingo" like it was so profound of a catchphrase was enough to make me crack up on multiple occasions. Also I definitely got the immediate Bad Seed vibes but like I did not care because it was just so easy to watch.
Anyone remember the hilarious uproar after cabin in the woods released and ppl were like "that was an awful horror movie!! They made the characters so dumb and stereotypical" and i was like How did you miss the obvious satire
Dude, i remember a critic review that claimed the bad guys were just making and selling snuff films. I still believe that film critic fell asleep and bullshitted their way through a review. It was wild how stubborn people are in the initial assumptions.
Sigourney Weaver gave a whole speech at the end to make sure we all understood that the characters slipping into stereotypes was the whole point because they needed archetypes for the sacrifice. It’s also established that they were pretty normal and rounded people until they were drugged and manipulated into acting illogically lmao like it’s impossible to miss all of that! I feel like anyone complaining about the stereotypes is just telling on themselves for paying zero attention
@@AugustRxI think in this case it’s not that the movie being satire excuses it being “bad;” it’s the fact that it was specifically being called bad for playing into horror tropes, when the horror tropes were being criticized BY THE MOVIE as being illogical and forced to the point where the characters had to be gassed into playing their assigned roles better (deciding to split up for no good reason, being too horny to notice zombies in the woods, the “virgin” archetype not actually being a virgin but she’s the best they could do on short notice, the “smart” one who definitely isn’t wearing glasses at the beginning but then suddenly is after the observers start pumping the drugs in, etc etc).
while watching the show i honestly thought someone was going to be killed by "casserole being smashed on their head" (or some other way of "casserole" ending up being The Murder Weapon), and i was extremely disappointed when that didn't exactly happen.
If you want something like that, check out Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. A woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb that was supposed to be their dinner.
And she could shout "time to spill the beans!" or something stupid like that before doing so. The jokes just write themselves, talk about a missed opportunity!
I actually liked the series, i found myself enjoying the absurdity of those moments like how the daughter's grave changed description everytime or how they showed an explicit sex scene with a tender almost poignant music in the background, it was so funny to me i forgave all the other shortcomings the series had.
I loved how every episode ended with her sure of who the killer is only to have the first minute of the next episode tell her she's totally wrong. I didn't watch the Woman in the Window, but I've seen enough Rear Window type films to get what this is a parody/satire of.
My 88-yr old mother is staying with me for a few weeks because she left the water on and flooded her house, and I was looking for shows that she might like - and I found this Netflix series and she…loved it. She absolutely did NOT understand it was parody and kept asking me, “so how did the daughter die?” I was so amused by her taking this seriously that I sat along with her on the ride. Two big thumbs for this show.
Aww, that's so adorable! I reckon that she'd love "The Woman in the Window", which is where this show takes its main inspiration from, and plays all of the same tropes completely straight.
I agree it had issues with the tone, overall it was a good escape, light entertainment, Kristen Bell is so charming, she made it enjoyable. The scene where she learns about Buell’s past was hilarious, the funniest one of the show
XD fr i thought he was showing up for different handyman jobs just to find out he's been working on the mailbox since not only the first episode but literal years.
I've never heard such terrible dialogue delivered with such sincerity. The tombstone quote constantly changing and the infinite casserole dish were my favorite bits.
THAT'S IT!!!!!! Thank you, Naram-Sin of Akkad! That is part of what I loved so much about this beautifully stupid series. *"Terrible dialogue delivered with such sincerity."* YES! 🤗 I enjoyed it. The series kept my attention, made me desperate to see what happens next with each episode, and Kristen Bell is fabulous, so what's not to like?! Plus, *her character's name was "ANNA." Just like in Frozen* which I refuse to believe was a coincidence. 🤣😂🤣
my mom watched this show and it took her like maybe 3 episodes to realize it was a comedy. we watched a few episodes together and we were just very ???? the entire time. it was a rollercoster of “oh, this a comedy” and then “wait is this serious?” to “what the fuck is going on?”
The last scene is a reference to "The Woman in Cabin 10", another main-character-is-a-drunk-depressed-and-medicated woman who can't truly be trusted. Where a woman goes on a cruise and befriends the woman staying in the cabin right next to hers, and then witnesses her body being thrown and dumped in the middle of the sea, only to be told that there was no one in cabin 10. The cigarette case is a reference to the make up the woman in the book finds, that she had previously borrowed from the mysterious girl. Which makes he certain that she didn't hallucinate like everyone has been telling her.
I thought it was a reference to flight plan where a lady loses her daughter on the plane but everyone tells she never brought a young girl on the plane
No I think it's about Woman in Cabin 10 because the whole show is a criticism of the genre to which that book belongs. Also the story just seems a bit too similar.
In that final scene, isn't she also reading a book called "The girl on the cruise" or something? I loved all of the jokes with the books she reads. Towards the beginning, you can catch her reading "The woman across the lake" before going to sleep.
Since it was Kristen Bell, I went in to it figuring it would be a comedy, especially with "speak in a British accent" line, but most of it seemed to be playing serious and I'd forget until the next ridiculously random thing, like take your daughter to work with criminals, and leaving her in a room with a cannibal serial killer. The whole, "no! I will not pray for you!" got me, too. 😂🤣😂🤣 But it was fun enough for me to binge in one night, and I am not a binger. The end fight scene gave me serious Chucky vibes, though.
It would have been funny if she has wrote "stop what?" On her car's window. Then later on a response gets written. And they go back and forth with window messages.
Then it was like “What are you wearing?” And they start having sexual tension. Then it’s explained the message is from the car itself which is a smart car and she fucks the car and it becomes a character itself
I said JOKINGLY wouldn't it be funny if it was the kid all along and when the finale came I laughed so hard I ACTUALLY did a spit take with my wine! And yes it was a red wine too 🍷
Honestly to me it was a fun show. Not every series need to be a masterpiece lol some can just be light and entertaining. It’s something perfect to watch with ur partner and relax.
yeah at the end that's exactly what I describe it as. The perfect show to watch with someone else while chilling, eating or cooking. I just don't think it pulled off being the 'dark comedy satire' it's branded as and they should have steered more into the wacky stuff cause it was super fun.
But... is it entertaining though? It wants to be a spoof so it doesn't go too deep (or deep at all) into a decent plot but it's not funny enough to be a spoof, but it's not serious enough to be a real thriller... I was so excited for this but I got bored after 2 episodes (and quite honest was confused the whole time)
@@LennyCartwright well I guess that’s a matter of taste and perspective. I’ve seen many saying in here that they enjoyed it like me. And others like you that got confused or pretty much bored from the start. So it’s one of those series that everyone agree to disagree I guess lol
I knew it was parody going into it, but I think you nailed it on the head when you said it had a tone problem. I knew it was parody, but it played it so straight I'd genuinely forget it until something weird happened. It was just total tonal whiplash
I think the point of the series was to point out how awfully cliche the lines in these dramas are. Lines like "Elizabeth died that day, but you didn't" is just to show how we've heard that line over and over again everywhere. I think the whole "Is this a parody or not" is the point because we've been fed this same story and dialogue over and over, beat for beat, that they're so painfully predictable is the point. It's so the next time we see a show/movie like this, we get sick of them and thus Hollywood will finally have to be creative again.
@@Shyftus again, I think that's the point. Even the "Last remaining suspect" ends up subverted for a no sensical twist that a lot of these movies and shows do resort to. It's honestly the best deconstruction of these movies I have seen in a long time
Yes!!! I agree, cafeterialoca. 🤗 Also, here's one thing in the movie that I was expecting due to the tropes and clichés of the genre, but then didn't happen, which pissed me off AND made me laugh hysterically. When the sexy instagram guy is there (Rex?) and Anna texts her ex-hubby to say bring bread. *HE WORKS WITH THE FBI!!! So I was expecting him to send the police.* The whole time, I was waiting for the Calvary to show up. And when her exhubby comes *And Actually Brought BREAD, I yelled "Are you Effing Kidding Me?!!!"* Then I laughed so hard that I almost peed on myself. 😆😅🤣
@@SuperAstor This isn't "anything to do with women," it's a very specific genre, the next level of the lifetime TV movie; cookie cutter, formulaic, low effort, lower budget lazy movies. There are plenty of movies out there that have women as the main or central characters that are not mommy thrillers or trash. And the reason you see so many "for women" genres being called trashy is because most of them are lower budget, lower effort efforts because media companies don't think they need to put any effort into media they want to market to women. *That* is the misogyny you're smelling here. It's not being called trashy just because of "a female character" it's because on the whole, about 10% of the effort put into male characters are put in to female ones.
@@SuperAstor I don't think there actually _are_ "daddy thrillers," or at least not _enough_ of them to constitute an entire genre. There are also relatively few "romance novels" that are done from a male-gaze perspective. Art tends to be produced relative to the audience, and there seems to be an audience for this sort of "thriller about a housewife" that is not there for "thriller about a house husband" in the same amount.
I honestly kinda hated this (I was SO bored) but I will watch season 2 cause I loved Flight Attendant and maybe they’ll take the critique and do better, and I love a lot of the cast
Honestly, I watched tusk the other day too, because of the video you did. Now my partner and I can't stop making mutilated walrus sounds at each other when the moment calls for it 😂😂 Thank you for that.
SPOILERS I actually LAUGHED OUT LOUD when she is dramatically remembering her daughter's death and then she said her husband worked with serial killers lol and the daughter is just going in with him. Like, what on earth!? it was so unrealistic I just laughed and I had a hard time taking it seriously.
I laughed my butt off every episode. The show was so funny to me knowing every little trope of the genre they were making fun of. It’s very subtle type of satire and many jokes are “blink and you miss” type. The absurdist style of humor is not for everyone, but for me it just hit my laughing bone. 🤣
I wish it went full "Scary Movie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" bonkers paordy, I completely agree that tonally it never seemed fully satirical or sincere, so it just came across as...awkward.
I had the same feeling watching it. For me it never went far into the satire with all the serious moments, so it just felt so awkward and tonally inconsistent
Yeah, my favourite parody show would probably be A Touch Of Cloth (the first season, anyway, then they got greedy) which was a parody of police dramas, especially UK-set ones. It was over the top in some places, but I’d rather a parody be “really funny and then stupid in places” than “is this serious oh that was a joke okay”, you know?
I really dug the subtle weirdness of the show. Like on the surface it's a semi-serious parody of 'Woman in the Window' and the many other types of stories like it. I've read my fair share of those books, and if you know the genre it hit all the right notes of "why does this work?" If you think about it, it really doesn't - the fact that it doesn't work in this story is part of the parody. But it was the added factors of the casseroles, the impossible levels of wine, the samey art books, the ridiculousness of the mailbox guy, and the changing gravestones gave it an extra layer of surrealism that kicked it up a notch for me. They didn't have to do any of that - but that they did makes me appreciate it all the more.
I actually loved this show. I thought it was really silly and I had a great time watching it. When they were talking about how her husband took her daughter to meet a cannibal serial killer and the killer ate her I LOST MY MIND. I never took it seriously and just had a wonderful time watching it.
The fact that the kid was apparently eaten up right away in that room was so absurdly gruesome that I had to laugh super hard, it's like the dark fantasy of a 45 yr old housewife
I binged it the day it came out and loved it. The first episode had me hooked, I was laughing out loud, the grave stone was driving me crazy and the acting was phenomenal. I laugh every time I see that guy fixing the mailbox. I think it did it’s job perfectly at poking fun of the genre while still having an intriguing mystery that I wanted to solve. Like the whole season I genuinely wanted to know wtf was in the attic lol
I personally disagree and loved this show! I love how it didn't take itself seriously. It has a super campy vibe, similar to "Cry Baby" with Johnny Depp. It isn't for everyone, but if you like campy shows I think you'll really like it and all the parody aspects are honeslty hilarious
I literally just finished and it honestly cracked me up. I like that all the funny stuff didn’t totally take over, but I’d agree it maybe could have been 5 episodes.
I don't know, I really enjoyed it. I can agree that sometimes the tone clashed, and it probably could have been six episodes instead of eight, but it was funny, and some of the thriller elements actually hit well in spite of the adjacent comedy. Portions of it were legitimately tense. It might have helped that I never actually _watched_ any of the "mommy thrillers" that the show was parodying, and only knew of them through reputation and Amanda videos on TH-cam. ;)
I think the fact it took itself so serious while also not being serious at all worked better than if it leaned too far into comedy imo. It got you to care about the characters and plot only to hit you in the face with how stupid every character and every plot point is, but never treating it like it is. It kinda shows how these things got so popular, if you play into a serious tone you can get someone to go along with the weirdest plot
@@jackmartin4657 exactly! But I also understand why the tone change can be very jarring for someone expecting the series to feel like a full on parody, because that's what happened to me at first'
I think a lot of people WANTED it to be a parody, but parodies try and bring the audience in on the joke. This series was written with the comedy being more writer to writer rather than "the audience and writers are having a laugh at the characters in the genre". Like, half the joke is that there are writers out there who do things like this IN ALL SERIOUSNESS.
@@godspeedhero3671 It's definitely meta humor, but meta humor can still appeal to a broad audience. A lot of comedies I've enjoyed have been very meta in their tone.
I love that Buell is played by Cameron Britton who played Ed Kemper in Mindhunter. From what you showed of his character in this video both characters seem somewhat similar.
Your "don't let it consume you" joke made me laugh more than most of this show. I really only enjoyed the trailer and last episode. P.S. I did really like the one constant of the tombstone caption changing. :->
I agree that would have been a good joke for a straight parody, but I think it would have come off as overly corny in this type of series. A joke like that fits better in a film like Scary Movie.
I watched the trailer and assumed it would be a funny show. Then I watched the first two episodes and thought, "Ok, this isn't funny, it's just making me sad. Did they intentionally misrepresent the genre?" Then the plot kept getting more and more ridiculous and the characters kept acting stupider, but it still didn't quite feel like a comedy. I might have still enjoyed it, I'm not even sure at this point.
Same. Watched the first episode because I was kinda stoked for something funny... and then there were some funny jokes but then came the 'dead daughter' part and the tone seemed to just sort of flop. I did not feel particularly comfortable with laughing at a woman who spiraled into alcoholism and depression after loss of her child.
I walked in on my mom watching the last 15 minutes of this show. It took me about 10 seconds to go "is this a parody? This HAS to be a parody." My mom, who'd been watching the whole thing, answered "Maybe?"
Tbf the last 15 minutes are wildly different than the rest of it, as it’s the epilogue and more of a reference to The Woman in Cabin 10 (or whatever its called), apparently
It was an awesome show. The long prolonged serious tone sprinkled in with subtle comedy worked for me. Pretty hilarious. Glad they didnt go full "scary movie" spoof. That's been over done, and badly. Favorite line of the show: "Life is for the living, and so are casseroles." 😅.
I didn't really find the show very fun to watch but the one part where she's crawling in the rain was absurdly funny, and there really were times that were played too straight and had me second guessing if it was actually supposed to be serious.
I had a similar reaction. Certain things like the concept of her daughter getting eaten on take your daughter to work day really made me laugh, but long stretches feel totally played straight in a dramatic sense. I did enjoy the finale, but the overall tone of the series is a strange ride.
This is actually, what I love about this show. It's not blatantly obvious comedy/parody like Scary Movie. There's no slapstick. It's the subtle details, the exaggerated situations and all the clichés that I loved. Though I only found out it was an actual parody after I read some reviews. That made me love it even more!
The title made me think it was an outright, Scary-Movie-style spoof of all these neo-Hitchcockian thrillers that have been popular in the past 5 years, which is the vibe that Kristen Bell works best in. Hearing that it can't decide if it wants to be straight or farcical is a major turn-off.
Perfect description of this being a “being on the the background” kinda show. Went into while working on a craft project and it was a fun watch/listen. I didn’t watch the original movie it was spoofing so I was honestly pretty hooked on figuring out who the killer was while still getting some chuckles over the ridiculousness. Plus, I’ll watch anything with Kristen Bell… 🥰😂
I agree! The line between playing it straight vs satire was just… strange. I wish they had leaned more into comedy/satire because it just feels like they didn’t commit.
I thought it was an incredible show. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize it was satire. But my husband is a massive Hitchcock fan and kept making references to Rear Window. The plot twist though. Literally had me on the edge of my seat.
i only got to the second episode. tonally it felt really weird to me. like, what happened to her daughter is over the top and ridiculous, but kristen plays it so seriously that it just made me sad.
I loved the absurdity, the acting, buell, I loved a lot about it, especially the part where exhubby is talking to her on the phone while hes with a criminal patient and the patient's super invested, but that ending and the tone. They played it too straight in too many places for that ending to work. And it's not even about everything working out for her or the sequel bait (I am "on board"), it's the everyone's personality acting like they're in a fantasy (the police woman and the neighbor especially) and the weird dreamlike things like her repeating the truck driven by a 9 year old line 3 times. It just didnt work for me because of all the times they played stuff straight. But I did have a really fun time until that.
I didn't know the show was supposed to be a parody - I thought, especially towards the end, that Anna had a psychotic breakdown and would wake up in mental hospital at any moment xD
There were SO MANY times they set up for a good laugh only to move on and leave them to fall flat. And doing that with so many possible jokes, I started not being able to tell if it actually meant to be funny or what direction it wanted to go.
Ooof, yeah, the tonal switches annoyed me especially cause the acting type switched with them. Comedy acting and dramatic acting are kinda different, and though Bell does both well, the constant need to switch between them, even in the same scene, made it look like she was a bad actor which she’s NOT. But when you’re switching tones/styles that fast or you’re going for comedy and your scene partner is playing it straight, it just doesn’t work.
YES! I was so hoping you would talk about this! I binged it a few days after a bad breakup - to be honest I found it great entertainment for that. I didn’t have to think too hard and it was twisty and turny. Plus - Kristen Bell is just a joy.
I gave this series waaaay too much credit while I was watching. I assumed that the over the top flashbacks of Ana’s life was part of her psychosis and the big twist was going to be showing those scenes how they really happened.
I freaking love this show. Watched this before watching the The Woman in the Window. So entertaining, I love how ambiguous it is that you can't tell if this is parody. I recommend watching them at this order
I honestly enjoyed this. I do agree that is should have been a movie. The tone shifts didn't bother me because it reminded of Leslie Nielson in Police Squad! where things can be delivered dryly and super serious but its a ridiculous line itself. Also, Buele is an angel. I wanted Anele to be a thing
AMANDA I have to say that you're literally the only TH-camr i watch who does videos of stuff i haven't seen, but talks about them so well that i have to pause the video, go watch the thing, and then come back to hear the rest of your opinion....thank you for doing the lord's work!!!!
I have to second this comment I will often not be interested in watching the source material until Amanda starts to break it down and I decide I have to go watch the thing and come back
I didn't realize this was satire initially, but after finding out (after seeing the whole thing), it made some parts make far more sense... Like the ending. It felt like a B-Horror movie where they try to make it look "good" but couldn't, and were deciding at times that they wanted to be super-serious and some where it seemed so over the top that it couldn't be serious. It bounces ALL OVER THE PLACE. I was unsure what it was supposed to be.
Completely agree with ya, this should have been a movie. When I found out it was a series I was immediately like NOPE. This is a 100% not gonna be good because there is no way the premise can hold for so long! So glad you made a video about it xD
I love Kristen Bell, because she is perfect for absurd shows like this. I will always know her as Eleanor from "A Good Place", and when I saw a glimpse of Anna's wedding I was like "Is that Chidi? Is it the actor that played Chidi? Is that Eleonor and Chidi's wedding? Nope, not Chidi, just same glasses and hairstyle, bummer."
Totally agree about it being a good background noise while you're doing something else. I put it on while making a cheesecake. Got a little bit distracted while mixing the crust dough, so I was caught totally off-guard with the cannibal flashback. It definitely added to the wtf-factor.
I watched this with my mom, and I think what added into the humor was the fact I genuinely wasn't sure if it was a parody or not. I don't watch this type of genre, so the whole time, I would notice something ridiculous and just find it funny. The casseroles (and how many times she broke it), Bulle taking forever to fix the mailbox, her crawling on the floor when it rained, her daughter get fucking eaten, etc.... I think where I finally went, "There's no way they want me to take this seriously" was the last 2 episodes which I then took to the internet to confirm my suspensions.
I loved it so much, I watched the lady in the widow not long before so when I saw the pilot I was just laughing so hard cuz everything was on point. I love when satire/parody are done better than the original, the story was weirdly interesting and captivating!
I only realized it was a parody after finishing watching, which in retrospect is bizarre because as you noted, it starts with her monologuing in an English accent and then lampshading that. It's probably because I'm not as well-versed in this genre, didn't watch Woman in the Window and mostly because Kristen Bell sells it SO HARD. I figured out the twist at around episode 5 or 6 and when it turned out to be true I was completely thrown off by it. It both made perfect sense and absolutely no sense at the same time. All in all, I think not realising it was a parody enhanced the experience because the show keeps throwing curve balls at you and it kinda makes you question your own sanity. Fun!
I completely thought that this show was genuine and not satire for the first 3 quarters of the first episode. I also thought Kirsten Bell was Bryce Dallas Howard for the first 3 episodes.
I watched this show after a very stressful week at work so i will blame my exhausted mind for the fact that it took me until the literal last episode to figure out it was meant to be a parody. Embarassing lol i was so confused at the end because the rest of the show in some parts seemed to be serious …
Yay for reviewing this! I binged it, thought it was pretty funny and entertaining! they def could have gone further with some jokes. I kinda wished we had more gravestone quotes, those were good lol
Ooooo great point. I feel like how they're describing this show lines up more with Dead to Me but with the writing there's no way they didn't know they were steering more into spoof/parody
I felt really dumb for not knowing it was a parody. But in my defense they advertised it as a thriller/psychological movie (and didn't tag it as comedy or parody) and if that's what they say is the genre then I watch it with that in mind. I really just thought it was a very, very badly written thriller and had to find out it was a parody by watching an 'explanation video' on YT😅 To me, that also makes it a bad parody if I personally can't even tell.
I watched the entire show thinking it was serious. Like eventually we would be told that she's a crazy person who killed everyone and lived in a fantasy realm. I absolutely love this show, it was damn clever
Knowing it’s a satire is refreshing cause at first at thought it was really serious. But even when I realized that it wasn’t, I didn’t enjoy it. I really really tried to like it, I love the main actress but.. I just couldn’t. I saw it like a bad show trying to be smart but not really getting there.
To this day, I think one of Kristen's best performances is Panic Room. It doesn't sound like an Airplane parody. It sounds like a Flightplan parody; which incidentally has a lot of similarities to these crime thriller movies way before this new trend. Jodie Foster flies with her daughter while they're transporting her husband's casket. When she wakes up, her daughter is missing and nobody saw her while a couple of shitty con artists gaslight her into thinking that her daughter died with her husband and that she's having delusions and hallucinations resulting in a mental breakdown. So she searches the airplane, desperate to find her daughter.
My boyfriend and I started watching the show without knowing anything about it. We didn’t realize it was a parody and were so confused because nothing made sense, the dialog was horrible and all characters were insanely stupid. We even came up with awesome theories (maybe she’s an author writing a horrible murder mystery/horror novel and everything just plays in her head? Maybe she’s insane and killed her own daughter so she’s making everything up to justify her actions?). Makes the whole show even better imo 🤣🤣🤣
I threw this on while I was working and had a good time with it. There are definitely tonal issues, but the reveal of how her daughter died was hilarious. I don't know how people missed that this was a parody. It's in the name, trailer, and casting...
the scream video Amanda did was FIRE!!! As someone who grew up with the start of that franchise, it really hit me in the nostalgic feels. She really hit all the great points and weaknesses in each film. So yea, HIGHLY recommend. Def worth a watch
To me it felt too shallow which isn't great for retention, but a lot of the jokes were solid (and perfectly executed, thank you Kristen Bell) and I laughed a lot so....meh!
The serial killer/take your daughter to work day sub plot was freaking the best part of this... Think criminal minds or svu... their families are always targets of criminals from their work through some dumb dramatic shit 🤣
I really enjoyed it. It made laugh at all sorts of things. The changing tombstone. The freaken paintings of the flowers. It was great the masker mike thing had me rolling.
I loved it! The most fun parts were very subtle. There were over-the-top moments too, but most of the humor is very subtle. The casserole gag is about these kinda movies in general, like a lot of the gags. One gag I loved was the art things. How obviously they speed up the painting and over-the-top-you-could-never-do-that-irl sort of thing. Like she doing paintings that take several days to make in 20 min. XD The thing I loved is that the first episodes it's only her being "batshitcrazy hallmark movie clishé " but then slowly the rest of the world turns out to be like that too. I did guess the "twist" pretty quickly. But it wasn't really about that XD
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You gotta respect the Netflix hustle. Makes a movie. People make fun of it. Netflix doubles down and produces a mini-series making fun of the original movie.
Can’t knock the hustle
I mean it probably wasn’t Netflix’s idea and the project was pitched to them by outside producers/writers but they did choose to fund it and put it on their platform
@@phosphenevision the original was also in limbo and not produced by Netflix whatsoever, just eventually distributed by them. it had been made before and studios apparently passed it around for like a year, give or take. we can assume it had probably seen several edits and reshoots once Netflix acquired it which accounts for a part of the mess.
so if it was more cost than it was worth after all the terrible reviews despite talent involved, I guess satire of it and other similar titles that pulls in viewers easily puts the company in peoples' good graces. but realistically, it was just an obvious thing for them to acquire and people seem to like it so it paid off, unlike the original lol
Yesssss
And then sets up for a sequel that makes fun of a better thing, thus giving the original movie reflected credibility if it works.
I seriously thought she was lying or delusional about how her daughter died. But no,eaten by a serial killer while her father watched from the other side of the door.
was there at least a fun shot where for no reason whatsoever suddenly the table is decked out with a table cloth, fine dining plates, cuttlery and such and the child is somehow cooked as perfectly seasoned steak?
Me too. I called bullshit immediately! Lol until the cop saying she felt responsible lmfao
@@theobnoxiouslycharming1747 Sammme I was like “So THAT was true???”
i thought the same!
I thought it was a misdirect and they were gonna be like nah that's how she actually died, but no they really went there
I didn't realise that "Divorced, Alcoholic, Depressed Woman has her life spiral out of control when she believes she's witnessed a murder" was a new genre, but then this miniseries popped up!
She should get together with Divorced, Alcoholic, Depressed Man who's lost his child and now works as a PI. He'd help her solve the murder, too.
Sure it is! It started with Sharp objects
the girl on the train, the woman in the window, the woman in cabin 10
@@coolgirlraquel Big Little Lies as well
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okay, i am gonna say that developing a phobia of rain because "it rained the day my family died" isn't actually too far-fetched. phobias are created when the brain associates a trauma with some sort of stimulus such as rain or spiders or the colour yellow, and exposure to that stimulus induces the anxiety of the original trauma. but yeah, the whole 'bring your daughter to work as a forensic psychiatrist with serial killers' is stupid. the phobia tho? pretty feasible.
oh wow you just helped me realise why I developed a phobia for cockroaches in the last few years. I always had this idea that you kinda were born with a phobia for some reason, so I was surprised to have developed it, but now I understand. Thanks
@@sofiipote7 really? well, i'm happy to be of help!
I think some phobias can be seemingly causeless, like personally I’ve always been terribly afraid of needles and never known why. Sure, later on I’ve developed good reasons to be scared of needles, but that wasn’t how it was initially. A lot of common fears, such as arachnophobia, nyctophobia, coulrophobia, etc aren’t often caused by any specific thing in a person’s life. That doesn’t negate your point about trauma causing phobias, it most certainly can, but it’s certainly not the only cause.
Yea, it's not that ridiculous, I think that the ridiculous aspect of the rain is that it is so convenient from a writers perspective.
Reminds me of the “tumblr jelly trauma” thing. I checked and if you google, there’s a screenshot on reddit about it and more discussion about “weird” triggers.
"I don't drink wine anymore. I'll have a vodka" is way too good of a line for this show
So funny 😂
This show has a few lines like that.
LOL shame the other lines aren't as good.
With perfect delivery as well
Too good?
I audible laughed at the "He's been fixing the mailbox for 3 years." I felt like the wine gag could have been funnier if she was pouring it into increasingly larger glasses. I fast forward through most of the end fight, point received but it ran too long and failed to be interesting enough to hold attention all the way through. I still want to know how the kid got the body out in the woods.
She chopped her up. And used her wagon she sold chocolate on to carry the parts. She murdered her while her dad was practicing his ventriloquist act upstairs with the water running so he didn’t hear it. Lol
me too and then I remember that in every scene he is in, he was doing it.
That would've been so funny, at one point I thought they were doing it cause the glass seemed to be bigger to me but I think I was just tired lol
I wanna know how she sliced the handy man's throat when he was so tall
@@amara560 She didn't. She shot him, but he survived eventually.
Me and my friends watched the first episode as a joke, ended up watching the whole show until the end. It was weirdly addictive and fun to watch
Agreed, it zips by fairly quickly, and you find yourself wanting to know how it ends!
Yeah, like impossible not to binge lol though I guessed the ending.
Making each episode 30 minutes or less was genius in that it never felt heavy or like a slog. Also Kristen Bell is fucking delightful, she's so difficult not to enjoy it's annoying. Her use of "Bingo" like it was so profound of a catchphrase was enough to make me crack up on multiple occasions.
Also I definitely got the immediate Bad Seed vibes but like I did not care because it was just so easy to watch.
My friends and I decided to watch it thinking it was a movie before and watched all the way through lol. We were so mad about the end
I watched it just because I wanted to watch this vid, and gave up after a couple eps.. it really should've been a movie
Anyone remember the hilarious uproar after cabin in the woods released and ppl were like "that was an awful horror movie!! They made the characters so dumb and stereotypical" and i was like
How did you miss the obvious satire
Dude, i remember a critic review that claimed the bad guys were just making and selling snuff films. I still believe that film critic fell asleep and bullshitted their way through a review. It was wild how stubborn people are in the initial assumptions.
I loved it but being satire doesn't excuse how much of a crapfest something is
Sigourney Weaver gave a whole speech at the end to make sure we all understood that the characters slipping into stereotypes was the whole point because they needed archetypes for the sacrifice. It’s also established that they were pretty normal and rounded people until they were drugged and manipulated into acting illogically lmao like it’s impossible to miss all of that! I feel like anyone complaining about the stereotypes is just telling on themselves for paying zero attention
@@AugustRxI think in this case it’s not that the movie being satire excuses it being “bad;” it’s the fact that it was specifically being called bad for playing into horror tropes, when the horror tropes were being criticized BY THE MOVIE as being illogical and forced to the point where the characters had to be gassed into playing their assigned roles better (deciding to split up for no good reason, being too horny to notice zombies in the woods, the “virgin” archetype not actually being a virgin but she’s the best they could do on short notice, the “smart” one who definitely isn’t wearing glasses at the beginning but then suddenly is after the observers start pumping the drugs in, etc etc).
@@juliebogen1797 Read the reviews. it's not that. They genuinely thought it was bogus and did NOT vibe with the ending.
while watching the show i honestly thought someone was going to be killed by "casserole being smashed on their head" (or some other way of "casserole" ending up being The Murder Weapon), and i was extremely disappointed when that didn't exactly happen.
Erm, it kind of did.
If you want something like that, check out Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. A woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb that was supposed to be their dinner.
And she could shout "time to spill the beans!" or something stupid like that before doing so. The jokes just write themselves, talk about a missed opportunity!
@@itscjrodgers as someone who loved Roald Dahl books as a child I am somehow not surprised he would also write a book like that
Would love to see that on a 1k ways to die 😂
I actually liked the series, i found myself enjoying the absurdity of those moments like how the daughter's grave changed description everytime or how they showed an explicit sex scene with a tender almost poignant music in the background, it was so funny to me i forgave all the other shortcomings the series had.
I loved how every episode ended with her sure of who the killer is only to have the first minute of the next episode tell her she's totally wrong.
I didn't watch the Woman in the Window, but I've seen enough Rear Window type films to get what this is a parody/satire of.
I laughed out loud throughout the whole series. I thought it was brilliant.
Every time I try to explain this show i HAVE to use the word ABSURD. Cause that's what it is. And I love it lolol.
There is no 1 in heaven. (I know it was an "I")
That one got a good laugh out of me.
My 88-yr old mother is staying with me for a few weeks because she left the water on and flooded her house, and I was looking for shows that she might like - and I found this Netflix series and she…loved it. She absolutely did NOT understand it was parody and kept asking me, “so how did the daughter die?” I was so amused by her taking this seriously that I sat along with her on the ride. Two big thumbs for this show.
Wow 88 years old, that’s a blessing! 😊 god bless you both
This is just way too wholesome, omg. Bless your sweet mother.
Aww poor momma, this is so heartwarming 💕
Aww, that's so adorable! I reckon that she'd love "The Woman in the Window", which is where this show takes its main inspiration from, and plays all of the same tropes completely straight.
@@trinaq It'd be hilarious if she thought that one was a parody! :-P
I agree it had issues with the tone, overall it was a good escape, light entertainment, Kristen Bell is so charming, she made it enjoyable. The scene where she learns about Buell’s past was hilarious, the funniest one of the show
XD fr i thought he was showing up for different handyman jobs just to find out he's been working on the mailbox since not only the first episode but literal years.
I've never heard such terrible dialogue delivered with such sincerity. The tombstone quote constantly changing and the infinite casserole dish were my favorite bits.
Next season she should become a serial killer or undercover cop whose weapon is casseroles. JUST casseroles.
THAT'S IT!!!!!! Thank you, Naram-Sin of Akkad! That is part of what I loved so much about this beautifully stupid series. *"Terrible dialogue delivered with such sincerity."* YES! 🤗 I enjoyed it. The series kept my attention, made me desperate to see what happens next with each episode, and Kristen Bell is fabulous, so what's not to like?! Plus, *her character's name was "ANNA." Just like in Frozen* which I refuse to believe was a coincidence. 🤣😂🤣
There's no 'I' in Heaven!
I noticed the tombstone changed once! Guess I missed the other times 🤣
🤨 Bingo
my mom watched this show and it took her like maybe 3 episodes to realize it was a comedy. we watched a few episodes together and we were just very ???? the entire time. it was a rollercoster of “oh, this a comedy” and then “wait is this serious?” to “what the fuck is going on?”
I appreciated that it understood entertainment can be serious _and_ silly.
I watched just the first episode and I too was "????". I didn't get that it is supposed to be satire, I just thought it was bad.
I really want to recommend it to my mom and see if she figures it out.
The same thing happened to me! 😂
The last scene is a reference to "The Woman in Cabin 10", another main-character-is-a-drunk-depressed-and-medicated woman who can't truly be trusted. Where a woman goes on a cruise and befriends the woman staying in the cabin right next to hers, and then witnesses her body being thrown and dumped in the middle of the sea, only to be told that there was no one in cabin 10. The cigarette case is a reference to the make up the woman in the book finds, that she had previously borrowed from the mysterious girl. Which makes he certain that she didn't hallucinate like everyone has been telling her.
@@bluefire9147 yess, these children need to know about the OG
I thought it was a reference to flight plan where a lady loses her daughter on the plane but everyone tells she never brought a young girl on the plane
No I think it's about Woman in Cabin 10 because the whole show is a criticism of the genre to which that book belongs. Also the story just seems a bit too similar.
In that final scene, isn't she also reading a book called "The girl on the cruise" or something?
I loved all of the jokes with the books she reads. Towards the beginning, you can catch her reading "The woman across the lake" before going to sleep.
@@sboom1235 yep. That's another hint that it's woman in cabin 10, thank you for reminding me
Since it was Kristen Bell, I went in to it figuring it would be a comedy, especially with "speak in a British accent" line, but most of it seemed to be playing serious and I'd forget until the next ridiculously random thing, like take your daughter to work with criminals, and leaving her in a room with a cannibal serial killer. The whole, "no! I will not pray for you!" got me, too. 😂🤣😂🤣 But it was fun enough for me to binge in one night, and I am not a binger. The end fight scene gave me serious Chucky vibes, though.
It would have been funny if she has wrote "stop what?" On her car's window. Then later on a response gets written. And they go back and forth with window messages.
That would’ve been hilarious
Then it was like “What are you wearing?” And they start having sexual tension. Then it’s explained the message is from the car itself which is a smart car and she fucks the car and it becomes a character itself
@@katie2275 well that’s…interesting
@@katie2275 Lmao i love that
@@katie2275 lmaoo
I said JOKINGLY wouldn't it be funny if it was the kid all along and when the finale came I laughed so hard I ACTUALLY did a spit take with my wine!
And yes it was a red wine too 🍷
I kinda guessed it too when they showed the lighthouse field trip hahaha
Honestly to me it was a fun show. Not every series need to be a masterpiece lol some can just be light and entertaining. It’s something perfect to watch with ur partner and relax.
yeah at the end that's exactly what I describe it as. The perfect show to watch with someone else while chilling, eating or cooking. I just don't think it pulled off being the 'dark comedy satire' it's branded as and they should have steered more into the wacky stuff cause it was super fun.
It bored me to TEARS
But... is it entertaining though?
It wants to be a spoof so it doesn't go too deep (or deep at all) into a decent plot but it's not funny enough to be a spoof, but it's not serious enough to be a real thriller... I was so excited for this but I got bored after 2 episodes (and quite honest was confused the whole time)
@@LennyCartwright well I guess that’s a matter of taste and perspective. I’ve seen many saying in here that they enjoyed it like me. And others like you that got confused or pretty much bored from the start. So it’s one of those series that everyone agree to disagree I guess lol
I laughed and had a good time. It wasn’t for everyone but it worked for me.
I knew it was parody going into it, but I think you nailed it on the head when you said it had a tone problem. I knew it was parody, but it played it so straight I'd genuinely forget it until something weird happened. It was just total tonal whiplash
It was like how she kept forgetting things. I kept forgetting whether I should be disturbed or amused.
I think the point of the series was to point out how awfully cliche the lines in these dramas are. Lines like "Elizabeth died that day, but you didn't" is just to show how we've heard that line over and over again everywhere. I think the whole "Is this a parody or not" is the point because we've been fed this same story and dialogue over and over, beat for beat, that they're so painfully predictable is the point. It's so the next time we see a show/movie like this, we get sick of them and thus Hollywood will finally have to be creative again.
i enjoyed that jabs, but they overdid it in later episodes. especially the phonecall with her ex in episode 7 was too much on the nose.
agree!
@@Shyftus again, I think that's the point. Even the "Last remaining suspect" ends up subverted for a no sensical twist that a lot of these movies and shows do resort to. It's honestly the best deconstruction of these movies I have seen in a long time
Yes!!! I agree, cafeterialoca. 🤗
Also, here's one thing in the movie that I was expecting due to the tropes and clichés of the genre, but then didn't happen, which pissed me off AND made me laugh hysterically. When the sexy instagram guy is there (Rex?) and Anna texts her ex-hubby to say bring bread. *HE WORKS WITH THE FBI!!! So I was expecting him to send the police.* The whole time, I was waiting for the Calvary to show up. And when her exhubby comes *And Actually Brought BREAD, I yelled "Are you Effing Kidding Me?!!!"* Then I laughed so hard that I almost peed on myself. 😆😅🤣
@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 That went over my head, but that's PERFECT because it is the kind of short sightedness these series would resort to!
Not gonna lie, making "take your kid to work" day for a profiler of serial killers and cannibals is fckin hilarious.
These books are usually called domestic thrillers in my experience and they've really taken over the genre.
I maintain Mommy Thrillers. Wait I said Lady Thrillers...
"It's like being a housewife, but if it were interesting."
@@AmandaTheJedi You said both Mommy Thrillers and Lady Thrillers.
@@SuperAstor This isn't "anything to do with women," it's a very specific genre, the next level of the lifetime TV movie; cookie cutter, formulaic, low effort, lower budget lazy movies. There are plenty of movies out there that have women as the main or central characters that are not mommy thrillers or trash.
And the reason you see so many "for women" genres being called trashy is because most of them are lower budget, lower effort efforts because media companies don't think they need to put any effort into media they want to market to women. *That* is the misogyny you're smelling here. It's not being called trashy just because of "a female character" it's because on the whole, about 10% of the effort put into male characters are put in to female ones.
@@SuperAstor I don't think there actually _are_ "daddy thrillers," or at least not _enough_ of them to constitute an entire genre. There are also relatively few "romance novels" that are done from a male-gaze perspective. Art tends to be produced relative to the audience, and there seems to be an audience for this sort of "thriller about a housewife" that is not there for "thriller about a house husband" in the same amount.
"Oh, no thank you, I don't drink wine anymore..." (beat) "I'll have a vodka."
I legit laughed out loud at that.
A lot of fun to be had, just wish they had really sold it. It's because I'm not a wine mom. I kinda feel like watching Tusk...
Me too, I liked it fine enough, but wish that they'd done more with the entire concept.
They had so much to work with and they really dropped the ball. So disappointing.
If there’s a season 2 I hope they go all out. I like this series just fine but it didn’t go as hard as I hoped lol
I honestly kinda hated this (I was SO bored) but I will watch season 2 cause I loved Flight Attendant and maybe they’ll take the critique and do better, and I love a lot of the cast
Honestly, I watched tusk the other day too, because of the video you did. Now my partner and I can't stop making mutilated walrus sounds at each other when the moment calls for it 😂😂 Thank you for that.
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I actually LAUGHED OUT LOUD when she is dramatically remembering her daughter's death and then she said her husband worked with serial killers lol and the daughter is just going in with him. Like, what on earth!? it was so unrealistic I just laughed and I had a hard time taking it seriously.
Oh! We’ve got this on our watch list!
OT!!!!
I think it's a perfect couples cooking, cleaning and or drinking together show
boop!
You and Click I assume?
OT?? What are you doing here?!?!?? You must know each other from the Canada meetings.
I laughed my butt off every episode. The show was so funny to me knowing every little trope of the genre they were making fun of. It’s very subtle type of satire and many jokes are “blink and you miss” type. The absurdist style of humor is not for everyone, but for me it just hit my laughing bone. 🤣
I wish it went full "Scary Movie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" bonkers paordy, I completely agree that tonally it never seemed fully satirical or sincere, so it just came across as...awkward.
I had the same feeling watching it. For me it never went far into the satire with all the serious moments, so it just felt so awkward and tonally inconsistent
It just felt wrong laughing because it was so serious, like am I supposed to cackled that your daughter was mangled by serial killer?
Yeah, my favourite parody show would probably be A Touch Of Cloth (the first season, anyway, then they got greedy) which was a parody of police dramas, especially UK-set ones. It was over the top in some places, but I’d rather a parody be “really funny and then stupid in places” than “is this serious oh that was a joke okay”, you know?
I actually didn't realize it was a parody until watching this video... The tone was all over
I really dug the subtle weirdness of the show. Like on the surface it's a semi-serious parody of 'Woman in the Window' and the many other types of stories like it. I've read my fair share of those books, and if you know the genre it hit all the right notes of "why does this work?" If you think about it, it really doesn't - the fact that it doesn't work in this story is part of the parody.
But it was the added factors of the casseroles, the impossible levels of wine, the samey art books, the ridiculousness of the mailbox guy, and the changing gravestones gave it an extra layer of surrealism that kicked it up a notch for me. They didn't have to do any of that - but that they did makes me appreciate it all the more.
I actually loved this show. I thought it was really silly and I had a great time watching it. When they were talking about how her husband took her daughter to meet a cannibal serial killer and the killer ate her I LOST MY MIND. I never took it seriously and just had a wonderful time watching it.
same same
The fact that the kid was apparently eaten up right away in that room was so absurdly gruesome that I had to laugh super hard, it's like the dark fantasy of a 45 yr old housewife
"The day he killed and ate your daughter" 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
I binged it the day it came out and loved it. The first episode had me hooked, I was laughing out loud, the grave stone was driving me crazy and the acting was phenomenal. I laugh every time I see that guy fixing the mailbox. I think it did it’s job perfectly at poking fun of the genre while still having an intriguing mystery that I wanted to solve. Like the whole season I genuinely wanted to know wtf was in the attic lol
Kristen Bell was such a perfect choice for the satire movie. love her
I walked in on my mom watching it, and ended up finishing it with her. My soul left my body during the fight with the child, it was beautiful.
I personally disagree and loved this show! I love how it didn't take itself seriously. It has a super campy vibe, similar to "Cry Baby" with Johnny Depp. It isn't for everyone, but if you like campy shows I think you'll really like it and all the parody aspects are honeslty hilarious
I agree. Just the title alone had me laughing; I can't imagine how anyone ever in a million years could've taken this seriously.
"with Johnny Depp" big yikes, no thank you, will not be respecting any of your opinions.
@@GrimmDelightsDice ok?
I found the opposite I kept waiting for the light funny twist but it was all so serious
@@GrimmDelightsDice what???
I literally just finished and it honestly cracked me up. I like that all the funny stuff didn’t totally take over, but I’d agree it maybe could have been 5 episodes.
I don't know, I really enjoyed it. I can agree that sometimes the tone clashed, and it probably could have been six episodes instead of eight, but it was funny, and some of the thriller elements actually hit well in spite of the adjacent comedy. Portions of it were legitimately tense. It might have helped that I never actually _watched_ any of the "mommy thrillers" that the show was parodying, and only knew of them through reputation and Amanda videos on TH-cam. ;)
I think the fact it took itself so serious while also not being serious at all worked better than if it leaned too far into comedy imo. It got you to care about the characters and plot only to hit you in the face with how stupid every character and every plot point is, but never treating it like it is. It kinda shows how these things got so popular, if you play into a serious tone you can get someone to go along with the weirdest plot
@@jackmartin4657 exactly! But I also understand why the tone change can be very jarring for someone expecting the series to feel like a full on parody, because that's what happened to me at first'
@@justine4581 I can understand people thinking it wasn’t parody enough. But I don’t get people who didn’t realise this was a paradox lol.
I think a lot of people WANTED it to be a parody, but parodies try and bring the audience in on the joke. This series was written with the comedy being more writer to writer rather than "the audience and writers are having a laugh at the characters in the genre". Like, half the joke is that there are writers out there who do things like this IN ALL SERIOUSNESS.
@@godspeedhero3671 It's definitely meta humor, but meta humor can still appeal to a broad audience. A lot of comedies I've enjoyed have been very meta in their tone.
I love that Buell is played by Cameron Britton who played Ed Kemper in Mindhunter. From what you showed of his character in this video both characters seem somewhat similar.
Your "don't let it consume you" joke made me laugh more than most of this show. I really only enjoyed the trailer and last episode.
P.S. I did really like the one constant of the tombstone caption changing. :->
Right? Last episode was a trash in a good way
I agree that would have been a good joke for a straight parody, but I think it would have come off as overly corny in this type of series. A joke like that fits better in a film like Scary Movie.
I love that it didn't go full parody. It was so fun watching a show that I could almost believe was badly written with complete sincerity.
At this point I just watch Amanda’s videos to learn about anything and everything
Agreed, I just watch movies or TV shows through TH-cam now!
Yeah, I don't watch horror at all, but I like listening to her talk about it.
Well, then you're missing A LOT of good stuff.
@@ohc1492 I don’t really watch a lot of films so I end up just watching reviews and I like how she formats her videos
I watched the trailer and assumed it would be a funny show. Then I watched the first two episodes and thought, "Ok, this isn't funny, it's just making me sad. Did they intentionally misrepresent the genre?" Then the plot kept getting more and more ridiculous and the characters kept acting stupider, but it still didn't quite feel like a comedy. I might have still enjoyed it, I'm not even sure at this point.
Same. Watched the first episode because I was kinda stoked for something funny... and then there were some funny jokes but then came the 'dead daughter' part and the tone seemed to just sort of flop. I did not feel particularly comfortable with laughing at a woman who spiraled into alcoholism and depression after loss of her child.
I walked in on my mom watching the last 15 minutes of this show. It took me about 10 seconds to go "is this a parody? This HAS to be a parody."
My mom, who'd been watching the whole thing, answered "Maybe?"
Tbf the last 15 minutes are wildly different than the rest of it, as it’s the epilogue and more of a reference to The Woman in Cabin 10 (or whatever its called), apparently
It was an awesome show. The long prolonged serious tone sprinkled in with subtle comedy worked for me. Pretty hilarious. Glad they didnt go full "scary movie" spoof. That's been over done, and badly.
Favorite line of the show: "Life is for the living, and so are casseroles." 😅.
I didn't really find the show very fun to watch but the one part where she's crawling in the rain was absurdly funny, and there really were times that were played too straight and had me second guessing if it was actually supposed to be serious.
XD the way she tried to dodge the rain drops is what got me.
I had a similar reaction. Certain things like the concept of her daughter getting eaten on take your daughter to work day really made me laugh, but long stretches feel totally played straight in a dramatic sense. I did enjoy the finale, but the overall tone of the series is a strange ride.
This is actually, what I love about this show. It's not blatantly obvious comedy/parody like Scary Movie. There's no slapstick. It's the subtle details, the exaggerated situations and all the clichés that I loved. Though I only found out it was an actual parody after I read some reviews. That made me love it even more!
The title made me think it was an outright, Scary-Movie-style spoof of all these neo-Hitchcockian thrillers that have been popular in the past 5 years, which is the vibe that Kristen Bell works best in. Hearing that it can't decide if it wants to be straight or farcical is a major turn-off.
Perfect description of this being a “being on the the background” kinda show. Went into while working on a craft project and it was a fun watch/listen. I didn’t watch the original movie it was spoofing so I was honestly pretty hooked on figuring out who the killer was while still getting some chuckles over the ridiculousness. Plus, I’ll watch anything with Kristen Bell… 🥰😂
I agree! The line between playing it straight vs satire was just… strange. I wish they had leaned more into comedy/satire because it just feels like they didn’t commit.
I thought it was an incredible show. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize it was satire. But my husband is a massive Hitchcock fan and kept making references to Rear Window.
The plot twist though. Literally had me on the edge of my seat.
i literally JUST finished watching this series with my mom and the entire time we were screaming and cracking jokes at how ridiculous the plot was
i only got to the second episode. tonally it felt really weird to me. like, what happened to her daughter is over the top and ridiculous, but kristen plays it so seriously that it just made me sad.
"I'm on board! :)"
*oh god, I'm part of the problem*
I loved the absurdity, the acting, buell, I loved a lot about it, especially the part where exhubby is talking to her on the phone while hes with a criminal patient and the patient's super invested, but that ending and the tone. They played it too straight in too many places for that ending to work. And it's not even about everything working out for her or the sequel bait (I am "on board"), it's the everyone's personality acting like they're in a fantasy (the police woman and the neighbor especially) and the weird dreamlike things like her repeating the truck driven by a 9 year old line 3 times. It just didnt work for me because of all the times they played stuff straight. But I did have a really fun time until that.
I didn't know the show was supposed to be a parody - I thought, especially towards the end, that Anna had a psychotic breakdown and would wake up in mental hospital at any moment xD
There were SO MANY times they set up for a good laugh only to move on and leave them to fall flat. And doing that with so many possible jokes, I started not being able to tell if it actually meant to be funny or what direction it wanted to go.
Ooof, yeah, the tonal switches annoyed me especially cause the acting type switched with them. Comedy acting and dramatic acting are kinda different, and though Bell does both well, the constant need to switch between them, even in the same scene, made it look like she was a bad actor which she’s NOT. But when you’re switching tones/styles that fast or you’re going for comedy and your scene partner is playing it straight, it just doesn’t work.
I've heard even people who liked this saying it would have been better as a movie instead of as a series.
YES! I was so hoping you would talk about this!
I binged it a few days after a bad breakup - to be honest I found it great entertainment for that. I didn’t have to think too hard and it was twisty and turny. Plus - Kristen Bell is just a joy.
Sameeeeeee
I gave this series waaaay too much credit while I was watching. I assumed that the over the top flashbacks of Ana’s life was part of her psychosis and the big twist was going to be showing those scenes how they really happened.
The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Gone Girl In The Rear Window Of A Train
Honestly I thought the word 'train' was in the title until I actually sat down and started writing the video
I literally just finished watching this show like an hour before you posted. Really good timing.
I'm curious to see what they do next "The neighbor next to the women in the house across the streat from the girl in the window"
I freaking love this show. Watched this before watching the The Woman in the Window. So entertaining, I love how ambiguous it is that you can't tell if this is parody. I recommend watching them at this order
In the words of Joker:
"If you have to explain the joke, there is no joke."
have stwangewy never found it to be twue tho
I honestly enjoyed this. I do agree that is should have been a movie. The tone shifts didn't bother me because it reminded of Leslie Nielson in Police Squad! where things can be delivered dryly and super serious but its a ridiculous line itself.
Also, Buele is an angel. I wanted Anele to be a thing
AMANDA I have to say that you're literally the only TH-camr i watch who does videos of stuff i haven't seen, but talks about them so well that i have to pause the video, go watch the thing, and then come back to hear the rest of your opinion....thank you for doing the lord's work!!!!
I have to second this comment I will often not be interested in watching the source material until Amanda starts to break it down and I decide I have to go watch the thing and come back
I didn't realize this was satire initially, but after finding out (after seeing the whole thing), it made some parts make far more sense... Like the ending.
It felt like a B-Horror movie where they try to make it look "good" but couldn't, and were deciding at times that they wanted to be super-serious and some where it seemed so over the top that it couldn't be serious.
It bounces ALL OVER THE PLACE. I was unsure what it was supposed to be.
Me and my sister literally argued over whether this was a parody-I thought it was a parody and she thought it was serious.
Your sister needs to do an IQ test 😂
@@raindropsonroses3919 I mean it was kind of both
I watch this series yesterday. So happy I found your channel today.
Completely agree with ya, this should have been a movie. When I found out it was a series I was immediately like NOPE. This is a 100% not gonna be good because there is no way the premise can hold for so long! So glad you made a video about it xD
I love Kristen Bell, because she is perfect for absurd shows like this. I will always know her as Eleanor from "A Good Place", and when I saw a glimpse of Anna's wedding I was like "Is that Chidi? Is it the actor that played Chidi? Is that Eleonor and Chidi's wedding? Nope, not Chidi, just same glasses and hairstyle, bummer."
OMG I just finished watching this and thought to myself that Amanda's video about this freaking show will be a masterpiece. THANK YOU I LOVE YOU
Totally agree about it being a good background noise while you're doing something else. I put it on while making a cheesecake. Got a little bit distracted while mixing the crust dough, so I was caught totally off-guard with the cannibal flashback. It definitely added to the wtf-factor.
Unsurprisingly, this series was a little fun along side an entire bottle of wine 😊
I watched it stoned. LOVED IT LOL
I watched this with my mom, and I think what added into the humor was the fact I genuinely wasn't sure if it was a parody or not. I don't watch this type of genre, so the whole time, I would notice something ridiculous and just find it funny.
The casseroles (and how many times she broke it), Bulle taking forever to fix the mailbox, her crawling on the floor when it rained, her daughter get fucking eaten, etc.... I think where I finally went, "There's no way they want me to take this seriously" was the last 2 episodes which I then took to the internet to confirm my suspensions.
I loved it so much, I watched the lady in the widow not long before so when I saw the pilot I was just laughing so hard cuz everything was on point. I love when satire/parody are done better than the original, the story was weirdly interesting and captivating!
I only realized it was a parody after finishing watching, which in retrospect is bizarre because as you noted, it starts with her monologuing in an English accent and then lampshading that. It's probably because I'm not as well-versed in this genre, didn't watch Woman in the Window and mostly because Kristen Bell sells it SO HARD.
I figured out the twist at around episode 5 or 6 and when it turned out to be true I was completely thrown off by it. It both made perfect sense and absolutely no sense at the same time.
All in all, I think not realising it was a parody enhanced the experience because the show keeps throwing curve balls at you and it kinda makes you question your own sanity. Fun!
I completely thought that this show was genuine and not satire for the first 3 quarters of the first episode. I also thought Kirsten Bell was Bryce Dallas Howard for the first 3 episodes.
Just want you to know you are such a comfort youtuber. Your voice just calms my anxiety down so much
When I saw your thumbnail, I freaking shouted "OH MY GOD, THANK YOU"
I had to stop watching it because of how tonally dissonant it was.
Mind. Boggling. Truly.
The gravestone thing and books were my favourite and I kinda wish they did the gravestone more. Just cracked me up every time
I watched this show after a very stressful week at work so i will blame my exhausted mind for the fact that it took me until the literal last episode to figure out it was meant to be a parody. Embarassing lol i was so confused at the end because the rest of the show in some parts seemed to be serious …
Yay for reviewing this! I binged it, thought it was pretty funny and entertaining! they def could have gone further with some jokes. I kinda wished we had more gravestone quotes, those were good lol
I feel like Dead To Me is a better version of what this show was trying.
Ooooo great point. I feel like how they're describing this show lines up more with Dead to Me but with the writing there's no way they didn't know they were steering more into spoof/parody
I felt really dumb for not knowing it was a parody. But in my defense they advertised it as a thriller/psychological movie (and didn't tag it as comedy or parody) and if that's what they say is the genre then I watch it with that in mind.
I really just thought it was a very, very badly written thriller and had to find out it was a parody by watching an 'explanation video' on YT😅 To me, that also makes it a bad parody if I personally can't even tell.
Yeah the scene with the kid you can definitely tell they took inspiration from the Orphan.
I watched the entire show thinking it was serious. Like eventually we would be told that she's a crazy person who killed everyone and lived in a fantasy realm. I absolutely love this show, it was damn clever
Knowing it’s a satire is refreshing cause at first at thought it was really serious. But even when I realized that it wasn’t, I didn’t enjoy it. I really really tried to like it, I love the main actress but.. I just couldn’t. I saw it like a bad show trying to be smart but not really getting there.
Your videos are actually some of my fave "I'm doing something but this is playing in the background" shows :)
To this day, I think one of Kristen's best performances is Panic Room.
It doesn't sound like an Airplane parody. It sounds like a Flightplan parody; which incidentally has a lot of similarities to these crime thriller movies way before this new trend. Jodie Foster flies with her daughter while they're transporting her husband's casket. When she wakes up, her daughter is missing and nobody saw her while a couple of shitty con artists gaslight her into thinking that her daughter died with her husband and that she's having delusions and hallucinations resulting in a mental breakdown. So she searches the airplane, desperate to find her daughter.
Isn't that Kristen Stewart?
Lol wrong Kristen (Kristen Stewart was in Panic Room)
@@brivalenzuela216 Though I was getting Mandelaed
@@toothless3835 they're joking
@@brivalenzuela216 i think it's joke
My boyfriend and I started watching the show without knowing anything about it. We didn’t realize it was a parody and were so confused because nothing made sense, the dialog was horrible and all characters were insanely stupid. We even came up with awesome theories (maybe she’s an author writing a horrible murder mystery/horror novel and everything just plays in her head? Maybe she’s insane and killed her own daughter so she’s making everything up to justify her actions?). Makes the whole show even better imo 🤣🤣🤣
I threw this on while I was working and had a good time with it. There are definitely tonal issues, but the reveal of how her daughter died was hilarious. I don't know how people missed that this was a parody. It's in the name, trailer, and casting...
IM SO GLAD YOU UPLOADED THIS!!! I kept saying... I see where the show is trying to be funny but it just wasn’t landing.
It was one of the strangest things I've watched, but I absolutely loved it!
It didnt take itself seriously and was some welcomed escapism.
the scream video Amanda did was FIRE!!! As someone who grew up with the start of that franchise, it really hit me in the nostalgic feels. She really hit all the great points and weaknesses in each film. So yea, HIGHLY recommend. Def worth a watch
To me it felt too shallow which isn't great for retention, but a lot of the jokes were solid (and perfectly executed, thank you Kristen Bell) and I laughed a lot so....meh!
The serial killer/take your daughter to work day sub plot was freaking the best part of this... Think criminal minds or svu... their families are always targets of criminals from their work through some dumb dramatic shit 🤣
I really enjoyed it. It made laugh at all sorts of things. The changing tombstone. The freaken paintings of the flowers. It was great the masker mike thing had me rolling.
I loved it! The most fun parts were very subtle. There were over-the-top moments too, but most of the humor is very subtle.
The casserole gag is about these kinda movies in general, like a lot of the gags. One gag I loved was the art things. How obviously they speed up the painting and over-the-top-you-could-never-do-that-irl sort of thing. Like she doing paintings that take several days to make in 20 min. XD
The thing I loved is that the first episodes it's only her being "batshitcrazy hallmark movie clishé " but then slowly the rest of the world turns out to be like that too.
I did guess the "twist" pretty quickly. But it wasn't really about that XD
I watched this last weekend and was so confused by the tone and said “whatever, I’ll just wait for Amanda to explain it”