Black Comedy Dead to Me Is Your Twisty New Netflix Binge

"Wherever Judy goes, chaos tends to follow." So says James Marsden in the Netflix black comedy Dead to Me. Taken together, his utterance (an early contender for my own epitaph) and the fact that a long list of embargoed spoilers prevents me from even writing his character's name illustrate much of this addictive new show's appeal. The story packs big twists into each half-hour episode--most of them driven by the kind but unmoored Judy (Linda Cardellini), who's constantly ratcheting up the entropy.

"Wherever Judy goes, chaos tends to follow." So says James Marsden in the Netflix black comedy Dead to Me. Taken together, his utterance (an early contender for my own epitaph) and the fact that a long list of embargoed spoilers prevents me from even writing his character's name illustrate much of this addictive new show's appeal. The story packs big twists into each half-hour episode--most of them driven by the kind but unmoored Judy (Linda Cardellini), who's constantly ratcheting up the entropy.