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Netflix’s The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is fantasy, farce and satire

We’re on a roll. We’re trucking along, you might say. The other day this column encouraged you to watchon AppleTV+, mainly because it’s a hoot, a send-up of the murder-mystery formula with a lot of laughs.

. And the story of how her daughter died takes us into a rather scathing satire of the profiler/serial-killer genre. That part isn’t so funny, it’s there to emphasize that we accept stereotypes and tropes with appalling blitheness. You might think Anna’s true love interest is handyman Buell , who appears to have been repairing her mailbox for about two years, just to be near her. But, no. Anna’s fixated on Neil and keeps making casseroles for him. Sometimes this doesn’t work because she forgets to wear oven mitts and is obliged to sit, looking out the window, with packs of frozen food on her hands. When she does manage to deliver a casserole, she drops it in the street, in fright.

Listen, at this point we’re barely two episodes into an eight-part series and I’m only giving you spare details. There’s a lot more going on here.The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

 

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