Kristen Bell

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

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Kristen Bell joins the show this week to talk about her new series The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window. It's a parody of domestic thriller movies like The Woman in The Window and The Girl on the Train. Kristen plays the character of Anna in the show, a woman who lives in an upscale suburb and is having a rough go of it lately. Anna does not do much other than drink lots of red wine and stare out her window from a comfy looking chair. That is until one day when she witnesses a horrific crime across the street, or at least she thinks she does. Interviewing Kristen this week is our friend Helen Zaltzman. Helen hosts the language and linguistics podcast The Allusionist and Veronica Mars Investigations, which recapped Kristen Bell's breakthrough show of the same name. Helen talks with Kristen Bell about the new show and what it was like not only starring in it, but also to produce it. Kristen also talks about some of the extreme things Veronica Mars fans have done in the past to get the show renewed. Plus, she shares the name she preferred to go by when she was growing up.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.2	From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:23.1	Kristen Bell is our first guest this week.
0:25.2	She's the star of a new series called The Woman in the House Across the Street from the
0:30.0	Girl in the Window.
0:31.6	That is the real title of the show.
0:34.6	In it, Bell plays Anna, Anna lives in an upscale suburb, just having a rough go of it lately.
0:41.2	Her young daughter has died tragically.
0:43.5	Her husband left her.
0:45.0	She doesn't work, really.
0:47.2	She actually doesn't do much other than drink lots of red wine and stare out her window
0:52.9	from a comfy-looking West Elm chair.
0:56.0	And it's from that chair that she witnesses a horrific crime across the street.
1:02.2	Or does she?
1:04.3	Anna's life is maybe a little too chaotic for her to be a reliable narrator.
1:08.5	I should be clear about one thing at this point.
1:10.9	This show is a comedy.
1:13.0	It's a pastiche and parody of a very specific type of movie and television show.
1:18.4	Maybe you've seen them on lifetime or Netflix.
1:20.6	Maybe you've heard a version on a true crime podcast.
1:23.9	I guess you could call them domestic thrillers.
1:27.8	What makes The Woman in the House work is its tone.
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