Audiences React to Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever Season 2

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Netflix series Worst Roomate Ever.

As the sophomore season of Netflix‘s true-crime docuseries Worst Roommate Ever dominates the streamer’s charts, rising to the top in Canada, the US, Denmark, and several other countries, it continues to spark intense viewer reactions. As the title implies, the series details horrific, real-life situations with nightmarish roommates. The show’s second season, released more than two years after the first, premiered on June 26, with four episodes detailing the crimes committed by Janie Ridd, Michael Dudley, Scott Pettigrew, and Tammy Fritz.

While the show’s first season featured a range of terrifying stories, viewers on X argued that the cautionary tales featured in the second season “are worse than season 1.”

The second season’s first episode follows the story of “friends” and roommates Rachel and Janie Ridd, longtime friends whose relationship soured after Rachel fell ill and Janie tried to gain custody of her son. When Rachel received court documents that Janie was suing for custody, she moved out of their shared home but eventually moved back in after Janie apologized.

Things only got worse. As it turned out, Janie had been poisoning Rachel; authorities started looking into Janie’s activities after they discovered she had contacted a seller on the dark web who offered a dangerous bacteria called VRSA. Janie was arrested in 2019 and charged with three felonies: aggravated intentional abuse of a disabled adult, attempted abuse of a disabled adult (intentional), and attempted possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Janie pleaded guilty to abusing a disabled adult and attempted possession of a weapon of mass destruction. She received two to five years for abuse and one to 15 for the latter crime but was paroled in January 2022 after serving just 25 months in prison.

Several aspects of the story shook viewers: the fact that Rachel moved back in after Janie’s legal threat and that Janie was released after just 25 months.

Worst Roommate Ever’s Season 2 Delivers Shocking True Crimes

The “worst roommates” covered in the remaining episodes also stirred a lot of emotions in viewers: Michael “The Lethal Landlord” Dudley, who murdered two tenants and then stuffed their bodies into suitcases; Scott Pettigrew, who murdered his landlady Anita Mamie Cowen after she petitioned the court to evict him (they did not); and Tammy Fritz, a woman who attempted to murder a family friend (and brother figure to her son, Christian) in hopes of collecting a fraudulent life insurance policy.

Check out some reactions to Worst Rooomate Ever‘s second-season episodes below.

It’s hard to disagree that if there’s one lesson to be learned from the Netflix series, it’s that living alone may be the best option possible.

Worst Roommate Ever‘s sophomore season is a Blumhouse production directed by Cynthia Childs. There is currently no confirmation of a third season for the series, but given the show’s growing popularity, and audiences’ thirst for more true-crime stories, we would not be surprised if we get more harrowing tales of criminal roommates via a third season. There’s also, as X user @SoftKittypaws points out, those rising housing costs.