Spoiler Warning for Dead to Me Season 3

Dead to Me comes to a bittersweet end with the recent release of season 3 on Netflix. Starring Christina Applegate as Jen and Linda Cardellini as Judy, the two women have been on quite the rollercoaster together, to say the least. And we are excited to explore the new twists and turns of the final season, but sadly all good things must end, even the unbreakable friendship between Jen and Judy.

Season 2 ends with Jen and Judy getting into a car accident caused by Ben running a stop sign while driving heavily intoxicated. Unbeknownst to him that it is Jen and Judy, he drives away. It is yet another hit-and-run that opens up for the final season to bring everything full circle.

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The season opens with Jen and Judy in the hospital after the accident, where Jen receives some devastating news, but it turns out the diagnosis was meant for Judy. Meanwhile, Judy runs into Ben at the same hospital where he is being stitched up. Unsure of what exactly happened to him, he claims he fell while drunk and hit his head. Then he confesses to Judy that he was drinking because the police found Steve’s body buried in the woods. This sends Jen and Judy into strategizing mode, and ultimately, the mess they have gotten into must end, one way or another.

Season 3 Sees Cancer, Murder, and Pregnancy

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When Jen finally works up the nerve, she reveals to Judy that the doctors found cancer in her scans and mistakenly told her, believing that she was Judy. Upon a follow-up consultation, Judy discovers that she is at stage 4 and cancer has spread to her liver. Her prognosis is bleak, and at first, she lies to Jen that it isn’t cancer after all, but the truth always comes out, and Jen convinces her to get treatment.

Later, Jen makes a shocking discovery of her own; she is pregnant with Ben’s child. The unexpected news evokes a mixture of emotions as Jen had believed she was entering menopause and is unprepared for another child (not to mention the child’s father is the brother of the man she murdered). The life-altering news prompts Jen and Judy to get their affairs in order.

They try to get their stories straight and make nice with the FBI agent investigating Steve’s death, but both are forced to face the impending reality of Judy’s death. The subject of cancer and pregnancy is the theme for this series and brings things full circle. Fearing the breast cancer that killed her mother, Jen had undergone a double mastectomy as a preventative measure. At the same time, Judy struggled with fertility and had several miscarriages before finding out she would never be able to have children. Now the tables have turned, Judy is plagued with cancer, and Jen accidentally becomes pregnant at age 47. And all the while, the two scramble to cover up the murders they committed.

Is Jen Finally Off the Hook for Steve’s Murder?

Unfortunately for Jen and Judy, Agent Moranis is suspicious of their story. As Judy comes to accept her fate, she decides to confess and take full responsibility for the death of Steve. But Jen, still in denial, is not ready to lose her best friend and convinces Nick not to tell Moranis about Judy’s confession just yet. Jen is able to get Judy into a trial cancer treatment that will take two weeks to complete.

However, they end up running off to Mexico instead taking a much-needed vacation. But not before they discover Agent Moranis has been killed, and it seems like the work of the Greek Mafia. Jen even witnessed the two men that entered his motel room.

It seems that Jen might finally have a way out of this disaster with Judy’s confession, her death, and the Greeks’ involvement in the agent’s death. Not to mention, if they tried to DNA test her daughter to corroborate her claim that the child is Steve’s, it would likely come back as a match since the father is Steve’s identical twin brother. Even Detective Perez steals Steve’s case file from Agent Moranis’ room to cover up for Jen and Judy and make it look even more like the Greek Mafia was involved in Steve’s death.

Everything seems to be tying up for a nice resolution, but as it happens, there is one loose end that might get Jen in trouble: the scone found in Agent Moranis’ room. If they were able to get DNA evidence from the scone, it could reveal that Jen visited the agent shortly before he was killed. We also see Jen admit she has something to tell Ben in the very last episode. It is safe to assume that she is ready to tell him the whole truth, but what Ben will do with this information, we can only guess.

Regardless, we’ve seen Jen undergo quite the transformation with the death of her husband, her chaotic ride-or-die friendship with Judy, the murder of Steve, and her new baby and blossoming relationship with Ben. We even see her leave Mexico after Judy’s death in the very same car that killed her husband, truly bringing the story to a poignant full circle. With all that has been thrown at her and everything that has happened, it almost doesn’t matter what comes next because Jen will be more than capable of facing whatever it is head-on.