At least Kristen Bell’s Netflix crime thriller comedy thing is a well-studied spoof

polygon.com:

For the first 30 seconds of the trailer for the Kristen Bell show The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window (TWITHATSFTGITW from here on out because try saying that five times fast!), the Netflix series looks like any other crime saga aimed at bored housewives like the one Bell seemingly portrays. That’s kind of the point.

TWITHATSFTGITW fancies itself in conversation with the glut of book-to-screen women’s crime thrillers: Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and last years’ abominable The Woman in the Window, also on Netflix. There’s an unreliable narrator, a missing white woman, a suspicious boyfriend, trauma, addiction and lots of wine. But how deep does the parody cut across all eight episodes screened for critics?

The series was created by husband and wife team Rachel Ramras and Hugh Davidson, along with Larry Dorf, all of whom also helmed the comedy series Nobodies. TWITHATSFTGITW is executive produced by star Bell, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Brittney Segal.

Costarring alongside Bell are Michael Ealy as Anna’s ex-husband, Mary Holland as the best friend, Tom Riley as the suspicious but hunky neighbor, and Cameron Britton, in all his serial killer-esque glory, as the always-lurking handyman.

Bell’s Anna is a divorced alcoholic painter grieving the death of her daughter several years prior. With no discernible current income, she sits in the front window of her palatial suburban home, wine glass filled literally to the brim and a perpetually unfinished crime novel that will surely be fodder for one of the aforementioned screen adaptations by her side, staring out at the goings-on of the neighborhood.

Until one evening she witnesses the murder of the girl in the window across the