Dead to Me has the cleanable operation of drama and drama. Netflix’s four-time Emmy-nominated bid was created by Liz Feldman and premiered backmost successful May 2019. It stars Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini as Jen Harding and Judy Hale, respectively, 2 grieving women from California who signifier an unexpected and humorous enslaved during therapy. The acheronian drama play earned rave reviews for its archetypal season, and remained a deed for the streaming elephantine erstwhile season 2 dropped successful May 2020.
Netflix renewed Dead to Me for a 3rd and last play successful July 2020. The official trailer was released connected November 2 and shows what’s unfolding adjacent for Judy and Jen aft that wild season 2 cliffhanger. The last play was filmed aft Christina was diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis. Below, HollywoodLife has each the updates connected play 3 of Dead to Me.
The Show So Far
Dead to Me starts with Jen (Christina) and Judy (Linda) forming a adjacent relationship aft their introductions astatine a grief enactment group, aft some women seemingly mislaid their husbands. But successful actuality, Judy’s ex-fiancé, Steve Wood, who is played by James Marsden, is really alive. Oh, and Judy figures retired that it was her who killed Jen’s precocious husband, Ted, successful a fatal hit-and-run. By the extremity of play 1, Jen discovers Judy’s engagement successful Ted’s death, and the 2 person a atrocious falling out. Steve, who was successful the car erstwhile Judy killed Ted, shows up to Jen’s home, and Jen ends up murdering him successful a acceptable of rage. Crazy, right?
That brings america to play 2, wherever Judy tries to get backmost successful Jen’s bully graces to helping her screen up Steve’s murder. The women enactment hard astatine hiding the truth, and things get adjacent messier erstwhile Steve’s duplicate member Ben Wood (also played by James Marsden) shows up. Eventually, Jen’s guilt leads her to confess to Detective Perez (Diana-Maria Riva) astir Steve’s execution portion trying to support Judy, but she ends up not getting charged. However, a hiker discovers Steve’s buried assemblage successful the woods, opening up Judy’s engagement successful the lawsuit erstwhile again. In the last scene, Jen and Judy are driving around, believing they are escaped of immoderate instrumentality troubles, erstwhile a drunken Ben — who had conscionable learned his member was so dormant — crashes into them. Ben rapidly speeds away, portion Jen and Judy awaken to adjacent retired play 2.
Will There Be A Season 3 Of ‘Dead To Me’?
Yes, play 3 of Dead to Me is perfectly happening. The amusement was officially renewed for a 3rd and last play connected July 6, 2020, conscionable 2 months aft play 2 was released. “From commencement to finish, ‘Dead To Me’ is precisely the amusement I wanted to make,” Liz said in a statement announcing the news. “And it’s been an unthinkable gift. Telling a communicative sprung from grief and nonaccomplishment has stretched maine arsenic an creator and healed maine arsenic a human. I’ll beryllium everlastingly indebted to my partners successful crime, my friends for life, Christina and Linda, and our brilliantly talented writers, formed and crew.”
Netflix revealed the authoritative crippled for play 3 connected November 2. “Jen and Judy return, acceptable to hazard their lives 1 past clip for a relationship that’s supra the law. In the aftermath of yet different deed and run, some women person shocking news. When the FBI takes implicit Steve’s execution case, Jen is confronted with the dire consequences of taking a life, and Detective Perez struggles to screen up her ain complicity. Meanwhile, Judy faces her ain existential situation erstwhile her beingness is threatened by an unexpected unit from her past and Ben wrestles with his darkest demons. This season, nary one’s aboriginal is guaranteed. Will Jen and Judy get distant with their lives? And tin they prevention each other?”
Season 3 Premiere Date
Dead To Me season 3 volition premiere November 17 connected Netflix. This was announced successful September 2022 astatine Netflix’s TUDUM presentation, erstwhile the streamer drops large quality astir its deed shows. Netflix besides released the archetypal teaser trailer for play 3 astatine TUDUM.
Season 3 of the amusement had really started filming connected May 7, 2021, aft astir productions were unopen down owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Liz shared the large news connected Instagram, writing, “And… we’re back! Thrilled and grateful to beryllium capable to bring this communicative home.” However, accumulation connected play 3 was paused for 5 months owed to Christina’s multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, which she announced to the satellite connected Aug. 10. After the quality broke, Netflix told The Hollywood Reporter they would beryllium respecting Christina’s wishes of privateness and that amusement would beryllium enactment connected hold. “We emotion and enactment Christina and respect her privateness arsenic she takes the clip and abstraction she needs successful this moment,” the streamer said.
Season 3 Cast
Christina, Linda and James are each backmost successful their starring roles. Christina had to movie the bulk of the play aft her MS diagnosis. She revealed to The New York Times that she gained 40 pounds from MS, an autoimmune illness which causes the assemblage to devour distant astatine its ain nervus tissue. Christina explained that she “had an obligation” to decorativeness the amusement aft taking 5 months disconnected due to the fact that of her health. “The powers that beryllium were like, ‘Let’s conscionable stop. We don’t request to decorativeness it. Let’s enactment a fewer episodes unneurotic [with antecedently recorded footage].’ I said, ‘No. We’re going to bash it, but we’re going to bash it connected my terms,” the histrion said.
The play 3 formed besides features Diana-Maria Riva arsenic Detective Perez, Brandon Scott as Detective Nick Prager, Sam McCarthy and Luke Roessler as Jen’s sons, Charlie and Henry, Natalie Morales as Michelle, Judy’s emotion involvement from play 2, Frances Conroy as Eileen, Ben and Steve’s mother, Max Jenkins arsenic Christopher Doyle, Jen’s existent property concern partner, and Valerie Mahaffey arsenic Jen’s mother-in-law, Lorna Harding. Garret Dillahaunt joins the formed arsenic Agent Glenn Moranis.
Season 3 Trailer
Jen and Judy person been done a lot. And they survived due to the fact that they had each different — I mean, person each other…
Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini prima successful the 3rd and last play of Dead To Me. Premiering November 17. pic.twitter.com/zIxDzzhF0D
— Netflix (@netflix) November 2, 2022
Netflix released the authoritative play 3 trailer connected November 2. Jen is successful the infirmary with a cervix brace aft the car mishap with Ben. Jen and Judy are being investigated by the constabulary present that Steve’s assemblage has been found. “It’s not excessively late. There is ever a mode out,” Jen tells Judy, arsenic they effort to fell their secrets astatine immoderate cost.
‘Dead To Me’ Cast & Crew Reaction
Since the play 3 renewal news, immoderate of the unit and formed members person spoken astir what’s to travel for the past hurrah. For starters, Liz antecedently explained to Deadline her reasoning for ending the amusement aft 3 seasons. “I ever knew from the inception of the amusement that I didn’t privation it to beryllium a agelong long-running show,” she said. “Then determination was a definite constituent erstwhile we were successful accumulation connected Season 2 erstwhile the extremity of the amusement came to me, beauteous profoundly, truthful I realized, ‘I cognize the communicative that I person to tell’ and Season 3 feels similar the close clip to bash that. It’s conscionable thing that came to maine organically, and I thin to effort to travel the gut feelings I have.”
Now arsenic acold arsenic the play 3 storyline goes, James gave fans a tidbit connected that successful a TV Guide interview. He said of his character, Ben, “Not lone is helium possibly going to find retired that Jen was liable for his brother’s death, he’s besides blameworthy of a hit-and-run. And they were the victims of the hit-and-run. And his member was blameworthy of a hit-and-run successful the archetypal season.”
While play 3 is it for Dead to Me, Liz has much enactment up of her astatine Netflix. When the quality broke of the show’s renewal, it was besides confirmed that Liz had inked a multi-year pact with Netflix, successful which she’ll “develop caller archetypal bid and different projects” astatine the streamer, per Deadline. “I americium beyond grateful to Netflix for supporting Dead To Me from time one, and I’m thrilled to proceed our collaboration,” Liz said astir the news.