‘Dead to Me’ creators explain why final episode’s ending was ‘ambiguous’

**WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the Dead to Me season 3 finale.

“Dead to Me” creator Liz Feldman talks about the final episode of her Netflix show.

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Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) travels to Mexico after Jen is diagnosed with terminal cancer.Jen wakes up A farewell note from Judy, she goes to the beach to find the yacht gone.

Feldman explained, “I intentionally obscured things in some respects.” deadline. “You’ve spent a lot of time with these characters. I feel like our audience has an almost unique relationship with Jen and Judy. I wanted to be able to interpret it myself.

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She continues:ships, and then one day they’re gone and you’ll have to assemble the pieces yourself.

In the show’s final moments, Jen admits: She has something to tell Ben (James Marsden), but viewers don’t know exactly what it is.

many fans thought so She was going to tell him the truth about killing Steve.

“I just wanted it to be satisfying. I wanted it to be cathartic,” Feldman added. There is a lot of pressure to end the series, so I took the emotions I wanted to create in the audience and worked backwards from there. ”