netflix’s dead to me is a show about grief, so why is it so funny?

You could watch the new Netflix show Dead To Me in a single day if you committed to itIt’s just 10 thirty-minute episodes about the depth and power of human grief. Five hours of dark, strangely elegant television about the worst kind of emotional pain. It’s surprisingly easy viewing.It stars Christina Applegate as Jen, a real estate agent whose husband is brutally killed in a hit-and-run near their home late one night.

She attends a grief support circle run by the local priest, mainlining bad instant coffee. She checks every car in the area for man-shaped dents on the bonnet, obsessed with the grisly task of finding her husband’s getaway killer.

And she locks herself in her four-wheel-drive with the seat back to yell death metal songs because it’s the only way she knows how to release a little of her all-consuming rage without her sons having to witness it.

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