Why Linda Cardellini Relished That Last, Nasty ‘No Good Deed’ Twist

This article contains spoilers for the season one finale of No Good Deed.

When Linda Cardellini asks to play a “badass bitch,” there’s only one writer she knows will listen. The ER and Freaks and Geeks alum earned her first lead-acting Emmy nomination for her warmly funny performance as the good-natured, gently homicidal Judy Hale in Liz Feldman’s Dead to Me. So when Feldman let Cardellini know that she was at work on another darkly comic series and asked the actor what kind of…