Netflix has just provided us this generation's answer to Scream | JOE.ie

Arguably the most recent decent entry in the genre was 2014's rom-com parody They Came Together starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, and we're betting you've never even heard of that movie.

When handsome new neighbour Neil moves in across the street, there is an immediate attraction, and Anna even forms a bond with his friendly young daughter Emma , and everything is going great until Anna meets Lisa , Neil's flight steward girlfriend.With nothing but time and wine on her hands, Anna does a little digging online, uncovering some potential dirt on Lisa, only to see her being violently murdered inside Neil's house one rainy night.

If none of this sounds particularly funny, that is because it isn't, and that's the point. Taking notes from The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window, The Flight Attendant, etc., Anna's murder mystery plot is exactly that: a mystery. It is only around that, and only at certain points, does director Michael Lehmann fold in some incredibly funny moments.

The gravestone with a constantly changing epitaph , the running gag of Anna's near-prodigious artistic ability to paint some flowers, the sheer amount of smashed casserole dishes, the handyman who spends the entire series fixing one mailbox... at times, the show is very, very funny. But much like Scream, it never loses sight of the type of story it is telling, and it is all anchored by an incredibly layered performance by the consistently under-appreciated Kristen Bell, who can go from realistically reacting to that Tragic Backstory TM to pulling off some high-end slapstick physical comedy with the blink of an eye.Oh, and each episode is less than 30 minutes long, so you will absolutely binge this whole thing in one go.

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