The Woman in the House Across the Street
from the Girl in the Window
features a lot of wine,
a lot of broken casserole dishes,
and a lot of shocking revelations.
This video is here to explain
all those twists and turns,
so make sure you've watched the series first.
There are lots of spoilers to come.
No!
With that in mind,
time to pour two massive glasses of red
and get down to business.
Anna sees a woman being murdered
in the window in the house across the street -
don't worry, I won't keep saying that.
The woman is Lisa Maines,
the air hostess girlfriend of Neil,
who is the handsome dad who has just moved in
to the house across...
No. The property opposite Anna's.
Anna is settling in for her nightly pint of wine,
when she sees Lisa with her throat cut.
Problem is, when the police turn up,
there's no blood or body,
and Neil says Lisa is out of town
in her job as an air hostess.
What follows is six episodes of red herrings,
to go with all that red wine.
Neil's past is littered with dead women,
which we'll explain in a second,
but he's also seen carrying a body in a sack.
Oh my God.
Which turns out to be a ventriloquist's dummy.
Might actually be more creepy than a body.
It's my ventriloquist's dummy.
What?
Then there's Rex, arrested in episode six,
once the police find Lisa's body.
Turns out he was under surveillance
for a different crime
and was recorded threatening to kill Lisa.
I swear to God, Chastity, I'm gonna fucking kill you.
I'm gonna cut you into little pieces
so they can't find--
Again, we can explain that one in a minute.
The biggest red herring of them all is Anna herself.
Lisa's body was found
near one of the painter's palette knives.
And to make matters worse,
she had accidentally brandished the knife
at Carol in an earlier episode.
You stop telling people that
-I have a drinking problem. -Anna!
And was seen having an argument with Lisa.
You know what? Let me call you back.
We know it was about her throwing away
smelly colouring pens,
but to the outside world, it looked like a threat.
This in turn unlocks a memory in Anna
of stabbing Lisa with the palette knife.
And there's blood dripping down from the attic.
The solution is a bit more innocent.
Oh my God.
The blood is red paint,
and her memory comes from slashing
at a painting of Lisa.
As we see early on,
Anna's trauma prevents her from finishing any painting,
and makes her destroy her half-finished attempts.
She no more murdered Lisa
than she murdered these flowers.
I didn't stab her.
I didn't kill anybody.
Okay, maybe it's a bit sinister
that she was painting pictures of Lisa
in the first place,
but it's better than being an actual murderer.
No, the shocking reveal
is that it was Neil's daughter Emma
who was responsible all along,
driven to a murderous rage
by Lisa's refusal to buy her chocolate bars.
Emma?
People always underestimate children.
Underestimate what they're capable of.
We can't be the only ones who got chills
from her transformation,
from young entrepreneur to violent maniac.
Emma then stole Anna's palette knife
when she was distracted getting her chequebook,
and used that to frame her.
And if you're wondering
why Neil didn't suspect anything?
Well, he missed the murder itself
because he was practising ventriloquism
in the bathroom.
But what about her absence after that?
As Detective Lane explained earlier,
it would be easy for someone to take Lisa's phone
and text fake messages to Neil.
I'm sure he has a phone somewhere.
Texted himself an alibi,
sent all those texts to Neil.
Neil also thought Lisa was flying to Seattle
as an air hostess.
But, as we discover, she wasn't an air hostess.
The airline in question, Olympia,
doesn't even fly to the West Coast.
And because Lisa was lying about her job,
it made it all the more easy for Emma to hide her murder.
Of course, that first question
should maybe be, "Who killed Chastity?"
Yes, it turns out Lisa was living a double life,
working with her partner in crime, Rex,
to scam rich men.
And Neil was just their next target.
Anna had her suspicions way back in episode two,
where she discovered that Lisa was being followed
by a mysterious account on Instagram
called Sexy Rexy.
Look at this. Fire emoji, fire emoji.
Eggplant emo-- Eggplant emoji?
Do you know what an eggplant emoji means?
-Yes. -It means a dick.
At the time, Anna thought Lisa was having an affair,
but it's more complicated than that.
Lisa is actually Chastity,
a bartender at the strip club
where Rex works as a dancer.
When the two meet, she draws him into a scheme.
She targets recently widowed men,
and tricks them into starting a relationship,
before introducing Rex as her sick brother
in order to scam money out of them
for a fake operation.
They're pulling off the scam with Neil
when Lisa/Chastity is murdered,
which is why Rex turns up on Anna's doorstep,
before moving to Anna's stairs,
shower and kitchen worktop.
One reason Anna is suspicious of Neil
is because when she looks into his past,
she finds a trail of bodies.
-Oh my God. -Well, two bodies.
I think that counts as a trail.
There's Neil's wife, Meredith,
allegedly drowned in the lake,
and Maxine, Emma's teacher, who fell off a cliff
during a school trip chaperoned by Neil.
Neil was the only adult present
at both crime scenes,
which leads to Anna picturing him as the killer.
Of course, the only other person at both scenes
was Emma herself, and as we now know,
this kid is not as sweet as the chocolate she's selling.
Jealous of the second child on the way,
she killed her pregnant mum by sabotaging the lake pier.
She also pushed her teacher from the lighthouse
for reasons unknown.
There's a surprising amount of upper body strength
in that tiny kid.
Throughout The Woman in the House,
Anna is convinced
there's something bad happening in the attic.
Hello?
She hears creaks,
and we see a shadowy figure
at the end of the first episode.
Again, it's all a harmless misunderstanding.
Well, as harmless as having a handyman
secretly living in your loft can be.
Buell has been living up here.
Yes, turns out that
friendly Buell has been sleeping in the rafters.
It's easy to suspect the DIY expert
of being up to no good.
Not only has he spent several years
fixing that mailbox,
but he's played by Cameron Britton,
forever associated in our heads
as the terrifying Ed Kemper
in Netflix serial-killer drama Mindhunter.
Thankfully,
his only crime here is being a very slow worker,
and maybe some inappropriate taxidermy.
The show ends with a final twist
as Anna flies out to New York one year later.
-Red or white? -Oh.
No, thank you. I don't drink wine anymore.
I'll have a vodka.
She sits next to a mysterious businesswoman,
played by film legend Glenn Close,
and accidentally drinks herself into a stupor
by mixing vodka with a Xanax prescription.
She wakes up,
finds Glenn Close's body in the toilets,
only for the body to vanish when she alerts the crew.
Yes, it's almost the same setup as the murder
that kicked the show off.
Let's get you back to your seat.
Though this time, not only has the body gone missing,
but the crew claim
there wasn't a passenger in the seat
to begin with.
There was no one in seat 2A.
Just as the police thought
Anna was imagining Lisa's murder,
based on the book she was reading at the time,
The Woman Across the Lake,
Anna is now reading the sequel,
The Girl on the Cruise.
If you look carefully at the blurb on the back,
it's the same story as hers.
Having survived one mystery,
the heroine takes a trip,
only for a lady to vanish from the boat she's on.
Is this Anna's mind playing tricks,
or a setup for a sequel?
One thing is for sure:
after eight episodes of pitch-perfect parody,
we'd devour some more.
Bingo.
And so we reach the end of - deep breath -
The Woman in the House Across the Street
from the Girl in the Window.
Who knew a comedy could keep us this gripped?
If you're looking to see how accurate the parody is,
you could check out
The Woman in the Window on Netflix.
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