She then goes to Steve’s office and barges in, saying “girl” a lot to the receptionist and ultimately leaving a Post-it note. Judy goes to her old house to find that the locks have been changed on the home that Steve is now selling. Does he know about the accident at all? Has he helped cover it up? There’s a flashback to the accident, which happened at night, with Judy behind the wheel.Ī quick break for a question here: How much does Steve know? He clearly didn’t recognize Jen when she came to his door in the pilot. She wanders and looks at pictures, clearly very uncomfortable and emotional. When the shock leads Judy to cut her hand, she retires to the guest house, last occupied by the man she killed. After all, Judy is staying in a guest house that Ted spent a lot of time in - Ted, the man it appears that Judy killed.Īfter dinner, when Jen reveals that Steve wants Judy to sell the house they shared, Judy seems upset, but it probably has as much to do with her big secret as the one that Jen has just revealed.
“She could be a crazy person,” says Charlie. Judy is not a petty thief with an opioid addiction. “I’m an excellent judge of character,” says Jen. Judy is at the head of the table, probably where Ted sat. Jen’s son Charlie isn’t ready to welcome Judy into the family quite yet, especially since she’s bringing meatless pasta to her first dinner table. Does she think that this subterfuge into Jen’s life is a way to heal both of them? And, perhaps most of all, can the writers of Dead to Me convince viewers that what Judy is doing isn’t absolutely cruel and unusual enough that we hate her for it?
And yet Cardellini plays Judy not like a dangerous killer but someone genuinely, emotionally raw and looking to connect. Did Judy go to the Friends of Heaven meeting to try to make amends to Jen for killing her husband? Exactly how crazy is she? Not only is the legal risk plentiful, but it feels like an act of sociopathic cruelty. The specter of what was revealed at the end of the last episode - that Judy clearly is the person responsible for the hit-and-run death of Jen’s husband, Ted - hangs over the opening scenes of “Maybe I’m Crazy,” the second episode of Netflix’s Dead to Me.
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