Kristen Bell has a mystery to solve in the Netflix psychological comedy The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.
All eight episodes of the series, which is a light parody of movies like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, are available to watch now. Bell plays the main character, Anna, who despite drinking copious amounts of wine and struggling through a personal crisis, must find a murderer before they can kill again.
The Woman in the House... is created by comic trio Rebecca Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf. The creators spoke to Newsweek about their new series, why Kristen Bell was the perfect protagonist, and why they felt the need to mock this genre.
If you've made it through all eight episodes already, you'll know the identity of the killer. Here is THAT twist from The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window explained.
Caution: major spoilers ahead.
Who Is the Killer in The Woman in the House...?
The episodes leading up to the finale seem to frame Anna as one of the suspects for the murder of Lisa (Shelley Hennig), but by Episode 8, we have our answer.
Anna fights through her Ombrophobia (fear of rain) and follows Buell (Cameron Britton) inside Neil's house, presuming he's the killer. She's shocked to find Buell lying on the floor with his throat cut. This immediately makes her think Neil (Tom Riley) is the killer. Wrong again as she finds Neil's body dead on the couch too.
The only other surviving person in the house is Neil's daughter Emma, played by Samsara Yett. She confronts Anna with the bloody knife in her hand.
The remorseless Emma admits to the murders, and explains how every event from the entire series went down.
Via flashback, we see that she murdered Lisa because she wouldn't let her eat chocolate, so Emma stabbed her in the neck. Emma then revealed how she framed Anna by stealing her palette knife in an earlier episode.
When Anna asks how Emma's father didn't hear anything, it turns out it's because he was upstairs practicing his ventriloquist act. "His act sucks by the way, which is why I killed him," Emma explains.
Emma's admission gets even deeper when she reveals that she even killed her own mother because she had the audacity to get pregnant without asking her if she wanted a sibling. Emma murdered her mother by spending all summer sawing the legs off a small wooden dock, then luring her to the end where she pushed her pregnant mother into the lake and she drowned.
Before Emma and Anna start to fight, Emma also admits to pushing her teacher off of the lighthouse.
From this point, the battle begins between the child and the adult. Emma stabs Anna in the stomach but they continue to have a lengthy but comical fight. Their confrontation finishes when Anna stabs Emma with part of the smashed casserole dish she'd brought round.
What Happens After the Fight?
Anna's ex-husband Douglas finds her in the house before she passes out. When she awakes she's in a hospital bed and feels like she's been "hit by a mac truck, driven by a 9-year-old."
Once she's recovered, she goes home and appears to be living in harmony with Buell, who continues to stay in her attic.
Continuing her physical and mental recovery, Anna starts painting again and puts on an art show. Douglas comes to see the exhibition, buys a painting, and the pair kiss in the rain.
In an extended scene on a plane, Anna sits next to a mysterious woman who sets up more intrigue and mystery.
The entire series of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is available to watch on Netflix now.
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