'Dead to Me' Season 3 Won't Address the Pandemic—But It Will Figure in Allegorically
Devotees gobbled up Dead to Me's second season like Jen and Judy consume wine: a lot at once. Now, fans are left waiting for more (and wondering what will happen with the finale's myriad cliffhangers).
Here, everything we know about Dead to Me's third season.
Netflix has officially renewed the show.
About two months after the streaming service released Dead to Me's second season, it confirmed that a third is in the works—and that it will be the series's last run.
It seems like the showrunner is on board with wrapping it up.
Series creator Liz Feldman—who, Netflix revealed, has also signed a multi-year deal with the streamer—appears to be happy with ending the show after a third season. "From start to finish, Dead to Me is exactly the show I wanted to make," Feldman said in a statement. "And it’s been an incredible gift. Telling a story sprung from grief and loss has stretched me as an artist and healed me as a human. I’ll be forever indebted to my partners in crime, my friends for life, Christina [Applegate] and Linda [Cardellini], and our brilliantly talented writers, cast and crew. I am beyond grateful to Netflix for supporting Dead to Me from day one, and I’m thrilled to continue our collaboration."
Even before the third season had been confirmed, Feldman expressed a desire to keep the series short. "I don't want it ultimately for this to be a 30 season long soap opera," Feldman told Refinery29 in May. "We're not The Bold and The Beautiful." She added, "I do think that I always want the show to be surprising and delightful, and I don't know if you can still be surprising and delightful seven or eight seasons in. You might run out of surprises and delights by then."
It will address the ongoing pandemic "in allegorical terms."
Feldman told Salon that our current emotional landscape will figure into the series, but not COVID-19 per se. "We are all facing an existential crisis and something that feels incredibly present but invisible. We're finding a way to try to encapsulate some of those feelings while telling the story at hand, which is certainly not about people living through these exact times," she said. "But they're living through their own existential crisis. We talk about it in more allegorical terms rather than in literal terms."
It's not clear when the new season will debut.
Dead to Me seasons one and two premiered in May 2019 and 2020, respectively. But given the ongoing pandemic, it seems highly unlikely that Netflix will be able to release the newly-announced third season in May 2021. As of yet, there's no timeline confirmed for the show.
Feldman has been working with writers in a virtual writing room, though (an experience she described as "doable," but "not how I would ever prefer to do it" in the Cut)—so progress is indeed being made on season three.
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