Dead to Me (Netflix Series) - the best series I have watched in a while

I am sticking with my program of watching anything that Netflix suggests for me. I realize that this might be rewarding a perhaps incorrect algorithm but whatever. Lately, "Dead to Me" was suggested and I saw that Christina Applegate (who I have liked since she played the hot, dumb daughter on "Married with Children") was in it, so I figured i would give it a go and have not been disappointed.

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I'm going to try to keep this spoiler-free so I will only discuss things that are evident in the first few minutes of watching the show and likely the trailer.

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Jen Harding (Applegate) is a widow whose husband was killed in a gruesome hit-and-run and she is struggling to deal with her grief and carry on with her life. She does a good job of keeping it together but has her moments where she "blows up" on people. During a grief counseling session she meets and eccentric woman named Judy Hale (Linda Cardellini ) who is at the sessions because her fiance recently passed away also. They immediately take to one another and start spending time together.

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Things become more complicated when Jen and Linda start to discover that their lives are overlapped in ways that neither one of them expected and in some of the cases some terrible secrets are revealed that only we, the audience can see. I am intentionally not revealing any of these but they add SO MUCH to the story.

The story is inventive, and the acting is wonderful. This is especially true on the part of Linda Cardellini, whom I had never heard of before but seeing Applegate in a primarily non-comedic role is pretty cool as well. The fact that Jen Harding (Applegate) is a fan of my favorite type of music and it is frequently featured in this series is just an added bonus.

I give up on a lot of series. I am particularly critical of Netflix on this front because I feel as though most of their series are drawn out much longer than they need to be. However, this is the first series since I have started subscribing to Netflix earlier this year that I actually stayed up much later than I should simply because I simply had to see the next episode.

Give it a look, I don't think you will be disappointed, especially if you like death metal.

rating intentionally withheld because I have every intention of finishing the entire season