There's a twisty, hilarious new dark comedy series on Netflix from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman called No Good Deed a house that has some proverbial skeletons hidden in the closet and the families trying to move in. For those of you who like to skip to the last page of the book, or feel like you missed something, here's how No Good Deed on Netflix ended.
What should have been an easy, albeit competitive, house sale in Los Feliz uncovered secrets and lies from the owners and the three couples vying for the property. Struggling former soap opera star JD (Luke Wilson) and Margo (Linda Cardellini)'s marriage fell completely apart as the latter's manipulative ways, spending habits, and more unraveled. Sarah (Poppy Liu) and Leslie (Abbi Jacobson) leaned into their darker instincts as they became morbidly curious about a murder that happened in the house three years prior. The pregnant Carla (Teyonah Parris) learned how close her new husband Dennis (O-T Fagbenle) is with his mother Denise (Anna Marie Horsford) the hard way. And the afore-mentioned murder continued to weigh on the owners Paul (Ray Romano) and Lydia (Lisa Kudrow), the victim Jacob's parents, especially when Paul's brother Mikey (Dennis Leary) got out of prison and came looking for help... and blackmails them?!
How did everything shake out? Did anyone else die? Here's what went down in the No Good Deed season finale.
In the penultimate episode, we learned that Paul, Lydia and Mikey have been keeping evidence and covering up their son's murder not because one of them did it, but because Paul and Lydia's teenage daughter Emily shot her own brother. Jacob, who had been robbing houses in the neighborhood, scared his sister by trying to break into their own home and she killed him. Or so they thought!!!! The past came back to haunt them, but things were not adding up. The evidence Mikey had in storage revealed that there might have been a second gun fired that night. Then Leslie, a lawyer, got a little too into the true crime background of her dream house and opened up the autopsy. When Lydia confronts her about this, Leslie tells her what kind of gun killed Jacob - and it's not the kind that Emily used. It is, however, the kind that JD and Margo have across the street. Then, Paul and Leslie learn that Jacob wasn't really giving JD's daughter piano lessons. Paul and Lydia confront JD and Margo separately about this. Only Margo knows that Jacob stole the fake Rolex from JD, which proves to them that she's the one who did it.
Here's what happened: Jacob had been hanging out with Margo for several weeks. Whether or not they were actually having an affair, or he just had a crush on the older woman as she claims, is left up in the air. But we do know that he was stealing jewelry to give to her. On the night he died, he broke into the house to steal it back. When Margo caught him, he threatened to tell her husband what was going on and ruin her life. She chased after him with her husband's gun, and her shot killed him.
All three couples got their offer accepted before the season ended, technically. The first was JD and Margo, but the soap star and his trophy wife didn't have the funds. That was a whole thing. Then, Dennis and Carla went all in - until Sarah told Carla about the murder and scared them away. That wasn't the nicest thing to do, but everyone broke bad a little in this series and it does mean that Sarah and Leslie got the final offer on the house.
Thanks to a little arson, Dennis and Carla ended up moving across the street. JD burned down his own house in order to get a clean slate (and some insurance money, I'm sure), and the expecting couple bought the lot to build their own dream house on the property. We must assume that Paul knew this was going to happen, and that's why he let JD go after confronting him about Jacob.
There's just one loose end. Dennis pocketed a multimillion dollar check from Carla's billionaire father and told the family it was an advance on his book when he cashed it. At the end of the season, the dad texted wanting to check in. Why did Dennis lie to his wife, the one person who's been honest with him? Is he actually upset with her that she told him his mother to him about his father's identity? I don't know, but it'll be interesting to see what happens if the show returns for a second season.
Six months later Margo, who got badly burned but survived the fire, was arrested by Mikey's son in the final moments of the season. The two couples settled into their new lives. Dennis did publish a new book, even if the advance was a lie. JD got a starring role in the Yellowstone spin-off he was dreaming about. And the Morgan family finally reunited. Emily even played some of her brother's music with her mom. (It's so crazy to see a Lisa Kudrow character perform at a coffee shop and not be the one on guitar, am I right?) And when a light flickered at the coffee shop, Paul gave in to the spiritual and said "hi" to Jacob. All is more or less well that ends well.