'The Woman in the House' Creators Talk About THAT Cameo and Why There Won't Be a Season 2

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Netflix series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.

The creators of the Netflix series with a name that's too long to pronounce in one breathe believe they recruited the perfect A-lister to cameo in their dark comedy thriller.

Kristen Bell plays a typically unreliable narrator in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, which is a comedy molded in a similar vein to the likes of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window, The Woman in Cabin 10 and Gone Girl.

All eight episodes of the psychological comedy thriller are available to watch on Netflix now.

Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf created the miniseries, and spoke to Newsweek to discuss THAT cameo, the big reveals, and the odds of a second season.

NOTE: Spoiler warning for major plot details about The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window on Netflix.

Q: Let's talk spoilers for The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, starting with the first big reveal that the husband is actually Anna's therapist.

Hugh Davidson: We were never sure if we can pull off that reveal. It seemed so funny to us. I don't know why? There's something stupid about it. It's like, it's so stupidly funny that he continued to be her therapist!

Larry Dorf: Because it's so inappropriate. We never comment on it as being inappropriate.

HD: They just all seem like they all have their good intentions, this gaggle of people [but] they're not the brightest ones, I guess ultimately.

Q: The final episode reveals the daughter to be the killer, which is followed by that brilliant and ridiculous fight scene. Was this concept in your heads from the inception of the story?

LD: We did know that little sweet Emma was going to be the killer from the beginning. And we did think that was going to be a very satisfying, surprising, absurd ending. Plus, having little Kristen Bell have this graphic, long, brutal fight with a little girl, that just seemed very, very funny to us. And our great director, Michael Lehmann and our great people involved, were able to pull that off.

Q: How was Kristen Bell on set that day? Did she feel terrible about having to stab a little girl?

LD: She was game. She was very into it. It took a lot of rehearsal and it was shot piece by piece. But yeah, everyone was game.

Q: The last four minutes of the entire series was another gasp moment when we met Glenn Close on a plane. Was that the pitch? That you needed an absolute star to come in at the end and raise things to another level?

Rachel Ramros: "That was certainly our hope and our fantasy, and we are still pinching ourselves that it came true. You know, someone with star-power certainly, but what made this so special is that Glenn is truly the grand don of this psychological thriller genre. You know, when you think of the first time you started seeing movies like this with a woman at the forefront, you think of Glenn. And she was so game and she had so much fun. And it was, it was a nail biter right up until the end if we were going to be able to get her. And we were so, so lucky.

Q: Like all good movies in this genre, were you intentionally whetting the audience's appetite for what's to come with a cliff hanger? Will there be a second season and will it include Glenn Close?

RR: She certainly needs it for her career [laughs]. It could be her big break. We did intend though, for this to be a limited series. And hopefully the story that we told has a nice satisfying ending. We just couldn't resist having this fun little cliff hanger at the end especially, as Hugh pointed out, some of these books will then have an excerpt from the next book by that author in them. And so that was also a nod to these books.

Q: So if Netflix say to you three, 'guys, we want another one' what would your answer be?

HD: Just to write that ending though, we spent at least two days figuring out where it would go—we had to write the ending so that it made some sort of sense. It had to somehow make you excited. So we do have a few pages written where that story goes. Who knows if anyone could ever want to hear them or see them.

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is available to watch in its entirety on Netflix now.