Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are key to Dead to Me

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As the soapy tragicomedy returns for a third and final season, the twists get bigger, the life-and-death stakes hit closer to home, and Christina Applegate undeniably shines.

Laura Bradley
Entertainment Reporter
Published Nov. 17, 2022

Partway through the third and final season of Dead to Me, Christina Applegate’s spiky anti-heroine, Jen Harding, shares a piece of evergreen advice: “Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that this is your life,” she says, “and you need to ****ing deal—no matter how much you wish things were very, very, very different.”

The sentiment isn’t novel, but the conviction in Applegate’s delivery is palpable. Much like the show that contains it, the line is sincere and deeply felt, even if Jen’s circumstances are anything but “relatable.”