The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Windowreview: As exhausting as its title

Back in 2015,Will FerrellandKristen Wiigstarred in an actual Lifetime movie calledA Deadly Adoption.

It was not supposed to be funny and that, Ferrell later explained,wasthe joke.

“We played it totally straight.”

Mary Holland and Kristen Bell in ‘The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window.'.Netflix

Audiences wereunderstandably disappointed they came for a parody and instead got performance art.

Anna Whitaker (Kristen Bell) doesn’t have a lot to live for.

That’s the joke, on paper at least.

Michael Ealy as Douglas in ‘The Woman in the House…'.Netflix

And the biggest risk you’ve got the option to take is to risk nothing.

And if you don’t get to the bottom of something, you risk everything."

Woman in the Houseis funniest when it gets truly, unexpectedly weird.