- No Good Deed has an all-star cast
- It shares a creator with Netflix’s Dead To Me
- There could be more episodes coming
No Good Deed is the latest star-studded series to drop on Netflix. The dark comedy has been created and executive produced by Liz Feldman.
Sitcom legends Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano top the cast list as Lydia and Paul Morgan, a couple who put their Los Feliz home up for sale after suffering a tragic family death. However, three other couples compete for the property.
Feldman has previously made her mark on the streaming service with her hit series Dead To Me. It ran for three seasons and starred Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini.
In the show, they played friends Jen and Judy who bond over mourning their dead husbands. However, their new relationship becomes more complicated when Cardellini’s character might have been at the wheel during the hit-and-run that killed Applegate’s character’s husband.
Will there be a second season of No Good Deed?
Feldman has spoken about her desire to make more episodes of the show. She even shared her “clear idea” about what direction to take the show.
“Oh, please. Of course. All I think about is a potential season 2. I have a really clear idea of what I’d like to do. I think it’ll be really informative for the show to come out and see how people react and who people are rooting for. But yeah, I have a really clear idea and I would love to do it, ” she told Entertainment Weekly.
What is the plot of No Good Deed?
Warning: No Good Deed spoilers follow…
Kudrow and Romano’s characters are three years out from the death of their teenage son Jacob, who in flashbacks is played by Wyatt Aubrey. They waited that long to sell their house so they do not need to disclose it to future buyers.
Through going back in time, details emerge around Jacob’s death. They completely disprove his parents’ theory. They were under the impression their daughter Emily shot and killed her brother. However, it revealed that Chloe East’s character might not have been the one to pull the trigger.
Who else stars in No Good Dead?
The three couples are made up of big names with a long history of working in Hollywood. There is fading soap opera star JD and his wife Margo, played by Luke Wilson and returing Feldman fave, Cardellini
Joining he duo is lawyer Leslie and her wife Dr Sarah, who are brought to life by Abbi Jacobsen and Poppy Liu.
The third couple is novelist Dennis and his wife Carla, who are expecting their first baby. They are played by O-T Fagbenle and Teyonah Parris.
What drew Linda Cardellini to play the villian?
Feldman revealed that Cardellini was interested in playing someone totally different to her character on Dead To Me. This prompted the executive producer to really have a think and reflect about what to do next. The outcome was producing the sociopathic and narcisstic Margo.
The show’s creator told Netflix’s Tudum, “I thought, ‘That’s really interesting. What would that look like?’ I had already started dreaming up this world of Los Angeles real estate and thinking, ‘Why hasn’t there been a show about the buying and selling of one house and all of the people that revolve around that one location?’ I thought, ‘Who would that badass bitch be in this world?’”
She was inspired by lockdown real estate browsing
Along with chats with Cardellini, Feldman shared that she was also inspired by her constant thoughts of home during the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
“I guess in some ways No Good Deed is personal. But I also think it has more of a universal motif to it. It’s the only place we were, like, legally allowed to be, it was the only place where we knew we were safe. That was a little bit where my mind was for at least a few months there at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. And at night, I would doom surf on Zillow. Just like, let me look at another house. I can’t go to my friend’s house or leave my own, but it would be nice to at least feel like I was at somebody else’s house,” she told Buzzfeed.
“So I really was looking at real estate as a means of escape.”
