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Why Dead to Me’s Creators Decided to Leave So Many Things Unexplained in the Finale · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. The popular Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini
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Speaker 1: drama Ye Dead to Me just ended its run after
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Speaker 1: only three seasons. The series creator Liz Feldman opted for
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Speaker 1: a finale that doesn't give fans all the answers. This
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Speaker 1: might be a spoiler alert, so if you haven't watched
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Speaker 1: Debt to Me yet season three, cover your ears. But
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Speaker 1: Linda's character Judy is terminally ill and disappears on her
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Speaker 1: own terms, leaving much to interpretation, and Liz wrote it
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Speaker 1: that way to mimic losing a loved one in real life.
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Speaker 1: Telling Deadline, I left things ambiguous in certain respects on purpose.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel I needed to hit you over the
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Speaker 1: head with it or have any sort of formal ceremony
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Speaker 1: to mark a closure. I wanted it to feel like
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Speaker 1: grief itself, feels you love someone, You have these beautiful relationships,
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Speaker 1: and then one day they're gone. Debt to Me's final
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Speaker 1: season is streaming now on Netflix that's direct from Hollywood,