{"id":399947,"date":"2022-01-26T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:00:01","slug":"watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Woman in the House&#8217; Review: Kristen Bell&#8217;s Mystery Parody Isn&#8217;t Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a259c85c2171\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a259c85c2171\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Woman_in_the_House_Review_Kristen_Bells_Mystery_Parody_Isnt_Funny%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Woman in the House&#8217; Review: Kristen Bell&#8217;s Mystery Parody Isn&#8217;t Funny&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Woman_in_the_House_Review_Kristen_Bells_Mystery_Parody_Isnt_Funny%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Woman in the House&#8217; Review: Kristen Bell&#8217;s Mystery Parody Isn&#8217;t Funny&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-woman-in-the-house-review-kristen-bells-mystery-parody-isnt-funny\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Woman_in_the_House_Review_Kristen_Bells_Mystery_Parody_Isnt_Funny%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Woman in the House&#8217; Review: Kristen Bell&#8217;s Mystery Parody Isn&#8217;t Funny&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Woman_in_the_House_Review_Kristen_Bells_Mystery_Parody_Isnt_Funny%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Woman in the House&#8217; Review: Kristen Bell&#8217;s Mystery Parody Isn&#8217;t Funny&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        A comedy mystery should, ideally, be both comic and mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the new Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cThe Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window\u201d drops one of its most successful jokes in its title \u2014 and doesn\u2019t have much to recommend it as a whodunit, either. A parody of book-club thrillers like \u201cThe Girl on the Train\u201d and \u201cThe Woman in the Window,\u201d this series stars Kristen Bell as a grieving mother who has descended into substance abuse and who becomes obsessed with a crime she believes she\u2019s seen. The tricky thing about this plot is that it\u2019s effectively indistinguishable from what might be featured in one of the books or movies the show\u2019s lampooning, and so needs to be jazzed up either with great gags or sharp execution to keep us watching.<\/p>\n<p>Neither is true. This series\u2019 title and certain early moments \u2014 as when Bell drops the cork from her wine bottle into a massive pile of them \u2014 suggest that this series will have a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker level of relentless comic ingenuity. Instead, though, \u201cThe Woman in the House\u2026\u201d often defaults to a fairly straightforward spin on the genre it\u2019s supposedly mocking, with occasional, flaccid sight gags. (In fairness, there\u2019s a line toward the series\u2019 end that made me laugh out loud\u2026 but only after several episodes\u2019 worth of bland, dry material.)<\/p>\n<p>The mystery plot and the few jokes sit uneasily together. If the show were raucous and constantly pulsing with humor, we\u2019d be laughing through violence, grief, and death; if it were revealing the genre\u2019s excesses by playing it totally straight, that could work, too. The occasional jokes tend simply to make one crave either levity or seriousness of purpose. To wit: Bell\u2019s character visits her daughter, who died at age 9, in the cemetery, and the camera lingers on her headstone, reading \u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018I\u2019 in heaven.\u201d Not only is this barely coherent as a joke, but it\u2019d need to be a great deal funnier to get the viewer to laugh about the death of a young child.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of strong comic writing, a lot of the work of signaling that this is, in fact, subverting the tropes of its genre is outsourced to Bell, who has the tricky job of acting in a role and making clear she\u2019s above it. She does this well enough, but it\u2019s frustrating that that\u2019s the assignment. More than anything, \u201cThe Woman in the House\u2026\u201d suggests a grim kind of vertical integration on the part of Netflix. Last year, the streamer released the feature film \u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d; this year, they put out the series lampooning it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Woman in the House\u2026\u201d has precious little to say about movies like \u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d other than that they exist. (Again: \u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018I\u2019 in heaven.\u201d) That\u2019s not enough to justify sitting through a show that\u2019s more than twice as long as \u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d \u2014 and one that, refusing to dare with a truly provocative joke or an inventive spin on the genre, takes far fewer risks. Compared to the loopy \u201cWoman in the Window\u201d or \u201cGirl on the Train,\u201d both films that in many ways can be taken as their own parodies, this show is just kind of dull. The greatest trick \u201cThe Woman in the House\u2026\u201d pulls may be revealing how inventive the movies it\u2019s mocking really are.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window\u201d premieres Friday, Jan. 28 on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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