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Critic Reviews
May 6, 2020
Season 2 Review:
Dead to Me keeps its world small and coincidences high, but that’s also what helps us really get to know these characters on a level that makes their emotional beats land in the moment. If the show was released weekly, its cliffhanger endings might carry more weight and anticipation, but as it is the series remains a breezy binge watch with sometimes surprising emotional gut punches.
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Nov 17, 2022
Season 3 Review:
Dead To Me has a pace that never lets up, with plot and dialogue that are consistently, furiously both dramatic and hilarious. The first episode of season three seamlessly picks up where season two’s dramatic end left off, but it also introduces several new twists, including a precarious health situation for Judy, that you’re going to want ti see through to the very end.
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The Daily BeastMay 8, 2020
Season 2 Review:
It careens through its twists and turns with a recklessness that is unnerving and exciting. But most thrilling of all is this emotionally volatile, hysterical, ace performance from Applegate, a woman flailing through life, shooting off sparks from the frayed wires at her wit’s end.
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May 7, 2020
Season 2 Review:
The best parts of the show are its unending reveals and the ways the characters dodge disaster. Oh, and the dead bodies, too. ... Ultimately, the show is a comedy, after all. Cardellini is especially good this season, as we learn more about how Jen came about her extremely mellow demeanor. And Applegate is funny, as she was last season, as she curses, breaks down, and swigs wine with a vengeance, all while her world continues to fall apart.
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May 6, 2020
Season 2 Review:
If some of the first season’s more patient character mapping—and its satiric depiction of wealthy SoCal malaise—is missed in this new run of episodes, that’s made up for by an onslaught of propulsive charm. It’s not hard to keep moving with Jen and Judy, because they keep the pace so well.
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May 5, 2020
Season 2 Review:
Liz Feldman and her fellow writers crank up the soap-opera-style drama this season, but they manage to keep Dead to Me from sailing off into the atmosphere of stupid television, thanks to the show’s sharp sense of humor and the grounded emotional moments that make what’s happening feel almost real. A lot of credit for obeying the laws of TV gravity also goes to the two leads.
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RogerEbert.comMay 3, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Applegate and Cardellini are never really bad in anything, and they’re terrific here on their own. But when they’re together, when they provide the messy, funny, undeniably warm rapport that defines this unusual friendship, “Dead to Me” (please forgive the phrase) comes to life. It makes the show’s occasional missteps—a twist too many, the odd joke too knowing, and a finale that feels like it belongs to a different series, to name a few—well worth enduring.
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ColliderNov 17, 2022
Season 3 Review:
The electric odd couple chemistry between Jen and Judy that we’ve come to love is ever present, and the genuine love and appreciation they have for each other has never been stronger, but it almost seems like the characters also know that their story is coming to an end, making each episode both cathartic and ominous.
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May 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Really, it’s Applegate’s, and she rises to that calling with the confident commitment of an old pro. This kind of role was a long time coming for Applegate. It’s a pleasure to watch her take Dead to Me’s imperfect machinery and, when the show is at its best, bend it into something sublime.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
As the show suggests, we tend to see other people not as they are but as we need them to be, constructing elaborate fictions to convince ourselves that we’ll never get hurt by the people we love. It’s a depressing truth about relationships of all kinds--and Cardellini and Applegate mine it richly in this absurdist caper.
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Nov 17, 2022
Season 3 Review:
“Dead to Me” has never been a perfect show, and the final outing is particularly uneven when it comes to the criminally minded storylines. ... It might not matter to viewers, though. The series, from creator Liz Feldman, excels in its depiction of two dynamic women who become each other’s chosen family. ... The show knows when to close the loop on its unwieldy narrative; the murder mysteries become secondary as the show focuses more on the core friendship at its center.
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May 7, 2020
Season 2 Review:
The two [Applegate and Cardellini] are great together even when “Dead to Me” doesn’t give them the scenes they deserve. Because they’re so linked, the second season episodes should be binged. Alone, they lack context; together, they’re like a tray of appetizers – easy to slide down.
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May 6, 2019
Season 1 Review:
A breezy, shallow comedy about an angry, grieving woman searching for her husband’s killer and the friend she makes along the way. Across its ten half-hour episodes creator Liz Feldman connects one watchable moment on top of another, hanging everything together curiously, if not altogether successfully. It helps that the series is constructed around a pair of brilliant performances by Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini
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RogerEbert.comNov 17, 2022
Season 3 Review:
“Dead to Me” recaptures some of the magic it had in its strong first season. But in its desire to wrap up all of its loose ends along the way, Feldman and the writers stuff too many ideas into the mix, almost as if speedrunning a three-season arc into the one final turn at bat that Netflix would actually shell out for.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It's a complicated and occasionally fascinating depiction of female friendship boasting a pair of fantastic performances from Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. It's a decent and sometimes perceptive examination of grief. And it's a very thin and rushed murder mystery that isn't exactly perfectly suited to 10 half-hour episodes.
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May 1, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Dead to Me‘s later episodes try to lean on character drama whenever possible, and Applegate and (especially) Cardellini get some strong moments as various truths come to light. But the season concludes with a cliffhanger that left me less interested in where things go next, and wishing we could go back to the grief retreat for some more laughs and tears.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
[An expert cast] helps make palatable a relentlessly twisty scenario that is rarely as shocking as it seems to think it is. Still, it's a brisk ride to a cliffhanger end. [29 Apr - 12 May 2019, p.11]
Apr 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The structure of the show, which leans hard on cliffhangers and the charm of its leads, keeps it zipping along; every episode ends with enough immediate intrigue that letting it autoplay into the next quickly becomes second nature. But by the end, its persistent attempts to surprise us dulls the impact of its overall story.
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IndieWireMay 2, 2019
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