‘The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window’ review: Kristen Bell dials ‘S’ for ‘silly’ in Netflix series spoof

Other than creating headline writers unquestionably bonkers, the title is certainly intended to evoke feelings of the rightfully derided movie “The Girl in the Window” (itself a “Rear Window” homage), and any number of other comparable thrillers, a la “The Female on the Coach.”

The basic conceit is that Bell’s Anna, still working with the tragic decline of her youngster and demise of her marriage, finds consolation gulping down wine and staring out her suburban window, right up until the arrival of an beautiful neighbor (“Da VInci’s Demons” star Tom Riley) with a younger daughter begins to shake her out of her stupor.

Anna’s clumsy flirtation with the dude turns into even additional uncomfortable when she catches sight of his product-quite, flight-attendant girlfriend (Shelley Hennig), till Anna witnesses what guaranteed looks like a brutal murder — except, of study course, she by some means drunkenly hallucinated the full detail.

Bell as a result joins a long line of protagonists who are unable to solely have faith in their have senses, whilst her tries to influence the police, mates and her ex-partner (Michael Ealy) that some thing happened primarily drop on deaf ears. In its place, her alarms provoke much more concern about regardless of whether she could possibly be getting rid of her grip on fact.

Made by Bell and Will Ferrell along with collection creators Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf (whose credits include the cheeky Grownup Swim animated spoof “Mike Tyson Mysteries”), the series does a moderately good job teasing out the mystery and suspects but starts to operate on fumes ahead of the eight episodes are above.

That’s an unavoidable obstacle when hoping to concurrently spoof the genre and tease out an precise secret about this episodic format, but it requires a far more sensitive contact than the exhibit regularly reveals.

Thanks to Bell, “The Girl in the Property” (and so forth., etcetera.) is a little bit extra pleasing than just sipping wine and idly surveilling one’s neighbors. Just not plenty of to generate a great deal enthusiasm about the prospect of boarding this teach yet again.

“The Female in the Property Throughout the Street from the Woman in the Window” premieres Jan. 28 on Netflix.