Season 1

Season one introduced us to Jen Harding (Applegate), a recent widow and real estate agent who was grappling with the shock death of her husband, Ted, at the hands of a hit-and-run driver.

When she attends a grief support group meeting, she meets Judy Hale. Judy has also lost her fiancé and seems keen to start a friendship with Jen. Although Jen is initially hesitant towards Judy’s quirky personality, the two bond quickly over their mutual grief and end up spending time together.

Things take a whiplash turn, though, when Jen finds out that Judy’s fiancé, Steve, is in fact very much alive.

Jen confronts Judy and tries to have her kicked out of the support group; however, after hearing Judy’s traumatic story of suffering five miscarriages and the disintegration of her relationship as a result, the group decides to let her stay.

Later, Jen visits Judy, and after the two make up, Jen invites her to come and live in her guest house. Jen soon reveals to Judy that she has been secretly looking into Ted’s death due to what she feels is an unreliable police investigation.

Her mission? To search for cars with dents on the hood.

This information ends up a shocking development as we see Judy, in her garage, staring at her own car. You guessed it: a Mustang with a dent on the hood.

As their friendship deepens, both women experience traumatic turns. Jen uncovers that her husband was having an affair, while Judy briefly reunites with her fiancé, Steve, only for her to find out that she will never be able to have children.

Whilst the investigation of Ted’s death goes on, a new person of interest comes into the picture: Shandy. Shandy is a neighbourhood girl who is found to have kept a piece of the wreckage as a memento. When it’s discovered that this piece comes from a Mustang, Judy panics and liaises with Steve, who tells her that he took care of the vehicle, revealing that he knows about the accident.

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