6/9/2023 0 Comments Dead to me season 3Ben eventually finds her there and explains that Mom bought the same toys for her twin boys and just kept doing it after they outgrew them. There, Ben reveals that he’s going to stick around while the FBI investigates, and Jen explores the house enough to find herself trapped in a terrifying room of twin dolls. To make matters worse, Eileen is insisting that Jen come back for a gathering at the palatial estate. “You can’t pour soup into a suit,” says the ever-selfish Lorna, who is upset that Eileen’s grief has taken the Wood mansion off the market. (Steve probably took after his pop.) Jen and Judy learn that the casket just contains a suit, because the body was NSFF (Not Safe for Funeral). (Frances Conroy is forced to go a little big here, but she’s a good enough actress that she finds a way to ground it.) Steve’s awful secretary from season one who says “girl” a lot made it to the funeral - as did Steve’s father, who turns out to be kind of a handsy creep. With everything else going on, there’s no time for cancer.Ĭut to Steve’s funeral presided by Pastor Wayne (Keong Sim)! After a quick ceremony, Ben thanks Jen and Judy for coming while Eileen screams at her son’s empty casket. While the doctor explains it’s stage four when the masses are that far from where they started, Judy checks out, staring off at the fountain and photos in the office - including a photo of the doctor’s boat, which looks a lot like the one Judy was on in Jen’s dream in the first scene of the season! How much of that dream was prophetic? Will someone have a piña colada soon? Will there be another jogging dude? Anyway, Judy dives headfirst into denial, noting that she feels fine and that they never would have found anything without the hit-and-run. She has cervical cancer, and it has spread to her liver. She calls the Wood family the riptide of problems in their life, but Charlie has already gone back to his headphones and isn’t listening. She is, after all, seeking help from her son to zip up her dress for the funeral of the man she killed. ![]() “Nobody should be watching that,” says Jen, perhaps shaken by a potential vision of her future. ![]() Judy is back in a doctor’s office while Charlie is at home watching one of those “women behind bars” shows. ![]() And it ends with Ben unleashing his biggest secret on Jen - a very smart move on the part of the writers, because it allows the back half of this season to play out in a way that the season-two cliffhanger may not have suggested. Meanwhile, James Marsden gets to display a similar range, showing how the secrets Ben’s carrying on the day of his brother’s funeral are eating at him. Is this the best episode of the new season so far? It brings the wonderful Natalie Morales back to the show as Michelle, Judy’s one-time girlfriend, and gives Linda Cardellini some emotional moments to flex her dramatic muscle - she’s so good at playing a woman who is constantly pushing down emotions that might ruin her rosy outlook, but she allows them to bubble to the surface and be reflected in her eyes, an unexpected frown, or even a tear.
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