TV-MA | 3h 16min | Drama, Black Comedy, Satire, Thriller | 28 January 2022 (USA) It should be made clear from the start that the copiously titled “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” [WHASGW] certainly isn’t for all tastes. Instead of being a straight-up mystery thriller or full-on satire of the same, the new eight-part, 196-minute limited series from Netflix is equal parts of both. Presented through the eyes of unreliable narrator and lead character Anna (Kristen Bell, in a career defining role), “WHASGW” brazenly pilfers from “The Girl on the Train,” “Gone Girl,” “House at the End of the Street,” “Identity,” and not one but two Alfred Hitchcock classics (“Rear Window” and “Vertigo”). In a bit of cheeky, self-aware, uber-meta, it also acknowledges the similar 2021 Netflix feature clunker “The Woman in the Window” starring Amy Adams. The once-promising artist Anna is going through an extended rough patch. …
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