I'm generally not a fan of programs with long, drawn out titles like this because they tend to be pretentious at best. Not knowing what we were getting ourselves into, the wife and I decided this would be something to breeze through over a couple of nights, particularly with the short chapters. Approaching this series as a straight drama is probably the wrong thing to do, since there's a quirky twist in every episode, and it appears that the film makers were goofing on the audience with things like the character of handyman Buell (Cameron Britton), who wound up fixing the mailbox for days on end. If you're attentive enough, you'll note that there's a different inscription on Anna's (Kristen Bell) daughter's gravestone in chapters one, two and six, so if you missed that, you need to go back and take a look. I don't know if anyone watching this will be prepared for the final episode in which the killer is revealed, because that's when the story takes the most far out and wildest turn imaginable. I guess if you're looking for something a little offbeat, this might do the trick for you, but realize that the story line is playing with you while you're watching it. Like in the second chapter, when Anna fills her wine glass right to the top, by the time she walks over to her living room, it's an inch short of full.
Review of The Woman in the House
