Woman in the House: What Happened To Anna’s Mailbox & Why Buell Never Fixes It
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Netflix's The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window makes a point to repeatedly show Anna's broken mailbox; here's what might have happened to it and why Buell never fixes it. As a parody of the dark thriller genre, Kristen Bell's new Netflix series plays with many tropes as it attempts to subvert audience expectations. However, the comedic elements of The Woman in the House also mean a few unusual elements, such as ombrophobia (a fear of rain) and ventriloquism, are included in the main murder mystery story to find Lisa's killer. However, although many key elements of the plot are clearly answered, Anna's broken mailbox remains something of a mystery.
As Kristen Bell's Anna spends most of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window trying to discover who murdered Lisa, the show also spends a great deal of time exploring her personal life. This includes revealing how Anna's daughter Elizabeth died in the past, which led to Anna losing her love for painting and splitting up with her husband Douglas. While Anna spends most of her days drinking wine and hunting down leads about what happened to Lisa, there is one other element of her life that persists throughout the show: a broken mailbox. But, the show doesn't focus on the mysterious running gag or resolve it with The Woman in the House's finale.
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Anna's broken mailbox is established in The Woman in the House's first episode, as her handyman Buell is shown trying to fix it. However, the series never actually explains what happened to the mailbox
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