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Christina Applegate is headed to Netflix. Recently, the streaming service announced the Up All Night star has joined their new TV show, Dead to Me.

From Liz Feldman, the dark comedy is “about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.”

On Dead to Me, Applegate will be playing Jen, a “poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn’t necessarily want to deal with.” Netflix has not yet announced a premiere date for the new TV series, but you can read more info below:

Title: Dead to Me

Series Logline: A dark comedy about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.

Christina Applegate will play “JEN”: A poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn’t necessarily want to deal with, Jen has been struggling to keep it together in the months since her husband was killed in a hit and run.

Produced by: CBS Television Studios and Gloria Sanchez Productions for Netflix

EP Credits: Liz Feldman (Showrunner), Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Jessica Elbaum, Christina Applegate”

What do you think? Are you a fan of Christina Applegate? Will you check out Dead to Me?