Omg, No Good Deed’s original ending was so much more unhinged

All the masses are totally gripped by Netflix’s new show No Good Deed. It’s about some very secretive rich families competing to buy a swanky Los Angeles house that looks straight out of Selling Sunset. But No Good Deed’s original ending was going to be wildly different. Basically nothing is the same.

The creator of No Good Deed, Liz Feldman, revealed to Buzzfeed that the Netflix show was originally going to have a totally different ending.

Apparently Liz Feldman is “always keen for darkness”. So her original vision was for the ending to be really messy and unhinged. But her team of writers felt the characters in No Good Deed had been through enough sh*t already. They wanted the show to have a clear conclusion so the characters could move on from all this drama and get happier. Nawww.

So, here’s how No Good Deed’s original ending would have gone down. Warning: It’s way darker.

Leslie and Sarah weren’t going to get their happy ending

I ship them and this house
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Er, so something way more sinister was originally going to happen to the house. Liz explained, “I had a whole other thought about what happened to the house, and then the writers were like, ‘Can’t somebody have a happy ending?'”

She eventually decided Leslie and Sarah should move into the house instead. Liz picked them so “the house does end up with the family that knows it best” and because “queer families deserve happy endings, too.” True that.

Carla and Dennis’s original ending had ‘a darker turn’

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I don’t think they ever look cheerful
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Apparently Liz planned “an entirely different ending” which “required a little bit of a darker turn”. I’m so intrigued. Carla and Dennis’s storyline was going to end with family secrets coming out. But their drama wasn’t as “edgy” as what was going on with the other couples, so their ending felt a bit flat.

The writers decided to shake things up and have Dennis mess up in his marriage instead. They kept the mystery of whether the book sales flopped or not. And Liz wrote that Dennis would take money from Carla’s rich dad, and bring up Carla’s daddy issues. If the original ending was “darker” than this, I’m a bit concerned.

Liz explained, “Dennis knowing that clearly the fact that Carla’s father is so wealthy has been an issue for her, and has created trust issues with her, especially with men. Totally understandable. And there, he has sort of unwittingly become her trust issue.”

Someone else was going to kill Jacob

They really do go through it
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Okay, here’s the big one. Brace yourselves. Margo wasn’t going to shoot Jacob. Liz originally planned an ending in which his family were all going to be partially responsible for his death. Another family member was going to kill Jacob. Yikes. but the other writers thought everyone had suffered enough and needed closure. They wanted a third party to kill Jacob. Enter Margo.

Liz told Buzzfeed, “The writers were like, ‘Come on, let’s give these people a break.’ So there was a desire to want to make it no one’s fault in the family.

“There was a feeling of like, let’s let them have some absolution and let’s lean into the fact that there is this sociopath who lives across the street.”

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