The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Season 1)

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022) is a Netflix thriller spoof starring Kristen Bell, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Anna spends her days at the window with a glass of wine, watching other people's lives roll by. Then she sees a murder. Or thinks she does.

The show is openly poking fun at a whole shelf of thrillers about a lonely woman nobody believes. Anna comes fully equipped: a broken heart, a wine rack the size of a closet, a paralyzing fear of rain, and a handsome neighbor (Tom Riley) across the street with an adorable daughter. When she swears she watched someone die, the detectives just nod politely. The evidence keeps vanishing faster than she can refill her glass. Across eight short episodes, every cliché gets cranked until it snaps.

Director Michael Lehmann and the writers push the parody to the point where the genre's self-seriousness collapses under its own weight. Bell commits to the bit without a shred of vanity, and a Glenn Close cameo is its own small gift. It lands best if you've sat through The Girl on the Train and The Woman in the Window and are ready to laugh at both. Stream every episode online on iFILM.