Dead to Me Season 2 premiere recap: Does Steve have a [spoiler]?!

Dead to Me Season 2 wastes no time in jumping back into the action. Jen and Judy reunite, and the episode ends with a shocking twist regarding Steve!

In the last season of Dead to Me, Judy became friends with Jen while grappling with a dark secret that she was involved in the murder of Jen’s husband. In Dead to Me Season 2, Jen is lying to Judy about the circumstances of Steve’s death! The two have swapped places, and now we get to see how the consequences of Jen’s actions will play out during the second season of this fantastic series.

Dead to Me Season 2 begins not long after Jen and Steve’s violent showdown in her backyard. Steve is dead, and Judy and Jen are in a weird place regarding their friendship. Despite the fact Jen called Judy to help her deal with Steve’s body, she’s not 100% ready to accept Judy back into her good graces just yet.

She tells Judy that she burned all of her stuff and only speaks to her so they can get their story straight regarding Steve’s death. She wants to make sure Judy doesn’t get all “confessy” and spill the beans. Judy needs to pretend that nothing is wrong, and Steve is still alive, at least as far as she knows.

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But there is one key element to Jen’s story missing, the truth. Jen tells her former best friend that she shot Steve in self-defense because he tried to strangle her.

In reality, Jen had lowered her gun but was still holding Henry’s bird statue that once had a cashier’s check from Judy stuffed inside.

Steve suddenly started having a go at Jen’s husband and her marriage, saying some pretty inflammatory stuff. Overcome with rage, Jen bashed Steve’s head in with the wooden bird.

Of course, she doesn’t tell Judy any of that. By episode’s end, the two women are back together again. As Charlie puts it, they just can’t seem to stay away from one another!

How do they end up back in each other’s arms? Jen realizes she can’t handle covering up a murder all alone. Judy is the only person that she can depend on to have her back.

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One thing this episode does is express Jen’s desperation to keep her children safe. In the middle of the night, Henry awakens from a nightmare showing Jen being taken away by an unseen person in a dark room.

Well, Jen is terrified of that happening. She doesn’t want to leave her boys without a mother or father. Keep in mind, Jen went so far as to get a double mastectomy because she had the breast cancer gene (a storyline that rings true to life for actress Christina Applegate) and did not want to risk her sons having to watch her die like she had to watch her mother. Jen will go far to keep her family together.

It makes sense why she would call Judy, and it couldn’t have come at a better time since Judy was preparing to sleep in her car in front of her old dentist’s office.

Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate Dead to Me Season 2

(L-R) Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate in Dead to Me Season 2 – Courtesy of Netflix /

Judy had asked her boss at the Beach Haven retirement center if she could stay in Abe’s old room. Not only would it be weird for Judy to sleep there, but the administration already reassigned the room to Flo Gutierrez, who we meet alongside Natalie Morales’s new character, Michelle, Flo’s granddaughter.

Michelle and Judy seem to have some significant chemistry already. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a relationship blossom between these two women before the season ends.

Michelle also earns points in Judy’s book by returning to her an old cigar box tucked into Abe’s boxsprings. A photo she once painted for him is stuck inside, along with some weed and keys to a car.

Since Judy has nowhere else to go, Jen tells her that she can start living with them again “temporarily,” but we all know Jen isn’t going to kick her out. The question is, how will Judy take it when she inevitably finds out what really happened to Steve that night?

Vulture pointed out how the episode tackles the complexity of Judy’s grief. Sure, she and Steve were not on good terms when he died, but she still loved him.

Before the episode ends, we get another shocking twist — Steve has a twin?! At the end of the premiere episode, Jen and Judy open the door and see James Marsden in the flesh!

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Odds & Ends

Another potential problem in Jen and Judy’s plan to hide Steve’s murder is Jen’s neighbor, Karen. Karen has state-of-the-art security cameras installed around her home, and she captured footage of Steve and Judy arriving at Jen’s house on that fateful night via her street cam. Jen gets her hands on the footage but has no way to delete it yet since Karen claims she saves everything on the cloud.
Where is Steve’s body? Dead to Me Season 2’s premiere did not answer that question just yet. While we anticipated it being in the pool, Karen pulls back the cover. All that’s floating in the pool is the wooden duck.
Charlie is beginning to learn how to drive. He has his learner’s permit, but Jen begins helping him practice to prepare for his eventual driver’s license test. He also has a potential new girlfriend named Parker, who we haven’t yet met.

Dead to Me Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.

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