The next article accommodates SPOILERS for No Good Deed, which premiered as a part of the 2024 Netflix schedule. If you would like to catch up, you possibly can try all eight episodes with a Netflix subscription proper now.
In relation to poisonous relationships, I am positive there are lots we might all consider. In 2024 although, the primary TV couple that involves my thoughts is JD and Margo from Netflix’s No Good Deed. Nevertheless, JD’s actor, Luke Wilson, really had a shocking tackle their relationship after I spoke to him – and it makes me wish to rewatch the sequence.
No Good Deed comes from Liz Feldman, the creator of Lifeless to Me, who isn’t any stranger to writing up characters that get your blood boiling, which Margo and JD definitely accomplish. On the finish of Episode 8, we see that JD and Margo’s home has burned down, however each are nonetheless alive – JD is appearing once more and Margo is arrested, with the 2 supposedly main separate lives. I knew I needed to ask Luke Wilson if he believes that if there have been to be a Season 2 or a continuation of their story, did he assume their paths would ever cross once more. His reply was a sure, with a stunning take a look at their interactions – that JD really wants Margo:
I feel JD wants Margo. That is my tackle it. I feel I used to be telling Linda, I’ve a good friend who his spouse’s like, ‘Okay, right here, put this shirt on, put these slacks on, and you are going to must get a brand new haircut. The brand new hip haircut is one which’s brief on the perimeters and lengthy on the…’ I feel that is the form of relationship that JD and Margo have, the place she’s just like the Colonel Parker to his Elvis. She’s the one which tells this man methods to dwell his day-to-day life.
It is not that shocking if we’re being sincere. Regardless of Margo being the epitome of a gold digger in No Good Deed, sufficient to make Luke Wilson ask, “Who the hell is that this individual?” when co-star Linda Cardellini acted as her, a co-dependent relationship the place somebody wants the opposite to simply purely perform is kind of frequent, particularly with their shared lives.
Wilson commented on that as effectively, saying in the event that they have been fortunate sufficient to proceed the story, these two needed to work together sooner or later – whether or not it is over sharing custody of a kid or one thing else:
I feel you possibly can’t have a season two and never have these guys not less than sharing custody of their youngster in a good way and coping with the opposite individual’s important different.”
Now that I give it some thought, there’s actually no good relationship in No Good Deed that is utterly wholesome. From the huge struggle scene in Episode 7 between the Morgans, to Dennis and Carla maintaining secrets and techniques from one another to a lot extra, it actually takes the identify of the present – No Good Deed – to coronary heart.
It does make me wish to rewatch the sequence now, particularly to essentially look into Margo and JD’s relationship extra. Possibly I might perceive the place they’re coming from slightly higher with Wilson’s feedback in thoughts and see how they might perform collectively… or maybe I am going to find yourself simply hating them extra. Who is aware of?
Even so, No Good Deed earned good critiques from critics and have become a giant hit on Netflix, so persons are loving these unhealthy {couples}. And if Season 2 occurs, we’d get to see manner extra of them – and all their loopy (and poisonous) shenanigans.