This new hit Netflix show is actually super Jewish, maybe??

Liz Feldman, the creator of "No Good Deed," who once called herself "a big Jew," gave us a show filled with Jewish mysteries.

I’ve been looking forward to Liz Feldman’s new show, “No Good Deed,” since I first heard it was coming — and even put it on my list of most anticipated Jewish TV of 2024 without really knowing if it was Jewish, but just based on vibes. Feldman, a self-proclaimed “big Jew,” was previously the showrunner of the excellent “traumedy” “Dead to Me,” which had some delightful Jewish representation in the form of an adorable Jewish retiree played by Ed Asner and a wonderfully wise rabbi played by Jen Kober.

In “No Good Deed,” Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow play Paul and Lydia Morgan, a couple hoping to sell their LA house while hiding a terrible secret that happened there (no spoilers!). Among the prospective buyers are a lesbian couple, Leslie Fisher and Sarah Webber, played by “Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu; Carla and Dennis, a couple expecting their first child, played by Teyonah Parris and O-T Fabenle, flanked by Dennis’s mother, Denise (Anna Maria Horsford); the neighbor across the street, actor JD Campbell, played by Luke Wilson (swoon!) who is looking to downsize and his wife, Margo Starling, played by “Dead To Me” star Linda Cardelinni, who plays the polar opposite of her character from that show; and Dennis Leary plays Paul’s brother, Mikey, recently released from jail, one of a jumbo toolbox number of wrenches thrown into the Morgan family’s plan to make bank on their prime real estate asset.

I don’t really want to say much about the mystery of this show because Feldman makes the kind of TV that is most enjoyed when you don’t foresee a layer of the onion being peeled — and you definitely won’t with this one. But I do want to talk about the most preoccupying mystery to me. Namely: Why are there so many mentions of the Holocaust in this show? And which of these characters are Jewish??

Character 1: Abbi Jacobson’s Leslie Fisher, the prospective buyer.

Evidence she is Jewish:

• Her name is Leslie Fisher, feels like 65% Jewish.

• She is played by Abbi Jacobson, who is 100% Jewish.

• She is a lawyer, which is 100% a Jewish stereotype.

• She is compulsive about figuring out what the story of the house is, which feels Jewish-coded. (As you can see above, she takes her spying and sleuthing very seriously.)

• Calls the house that they’ve been obsessed with going on the market “bashert” within the first three minutes of the show.

Conclusion: Nobody who isn’t Jewish uses the word “bashert” like that, 100% certain she is Jewish.

Character 2: Linda Lavin’s Phyllis Adelman, the nosy neighbor.

Evidence she is Jewish:

• Her name is Phyllis Adelman, please show me one non-Jewish person with that name because I don’t believe they exist.

• Is played by Linda Lavin, who is 100% Jewish, a Broadway and TV legend, and also played Seth Cohen’s grandmother, Sophie Cohn, in “The O.C.”

• Wants to figure out everybody’s business which is 100% a stereotypical Jewish mom thing but also don’t you secretly want to figure out everybody’s business???

• Looks very well made up while walking around with her dog in a tracksuit, I mean, check out those nails! Very glamorous Jewish grandmother coded.

Conclusion: Phyllis is Jewish. There’s nothing you or I can do about it. She’s also hilarious IMHO.

Character 3: Matt Rogers’ Greg Boycelane, the Morgan's realtor

Evidence he is Jewish:

• Makes a punny joke about Auschwitz??? That had me chortling?? And says he’s allowed to because he is a quarter Jewish??? Kudrow’s Lydia is not a fan of those numbers. (Matt Rogers isn’t Jewish AFAIK but is hilarious.)

Conclusion: Greg is a quarter Jewish, and the only character who self-declares their Jewish identity.

Character 4: Lawrence Pressman’s Victor Friedberg, an elderly man who ends up buying Lydia Morgan’s grandmother’s piano and who makes a profound but brief appearance in episode two of the show:

• Lawrence Pressman, star of “Doogie Howser M.D.,” is Jewish.

• Victor is literally a Holocaust survivor who talks about killing a Nazi soldier who found him in hiding.

• Makes a super poignant observation about guns: “These killing machines we create no matter where we aim, it's always self-inflicted in the end.”

• When Romano’s Paul interrupts his musings to ask if he can buy back the piano, says he can by giving a charitable donation to the USC Shoah Foundation (an actual nonprofit started by Steven Spielberg!).

Conclusion: Yes, Victor is Jewish and possibly the first person in a Netflix show to mention the USC Shoah Foundation in that way, though definitely not the strangest Holocaust survivor side storyline in a show (that honor goes to Paul Rudd’s “Living With Yourself”).

Character 5: Lisa Kudrow’s Lydia Morgan, the owner of the house.

Evidence she is Jewish:

• We don’t know her maiden name, but it could be something Jewish?

• Lisa Kudrow is Jewish (yes!) and has spoken about having a deep connection to her family’s Holocaust trauma.

• She says words like “oy” and “nosh,” which are Jewish but also just kind of LA? Maybe?

• She is constantly feeding everyone, 100% a Jewish mom stereotype but a good one I think if done respectfully, which in this case I think it is. She does not feed them anything particularly Jewish, however.

• Absolutely slayed this particular Jewish mom with her emotional performance of a grieving mom. Lisa Kudrow is the GOAT.

• Is a concert pianist who was taught to play piano by her grandmother, who played piano for Hitler because “she had to, to survive.” This one threw me for a loop because I do not believe Jews played piano for Hitler, though there are stories of Jews who played pianos for Nazis to survive. Also her grandmother was able to bring her piano from Germany to the U.S. and hearing Ray Romano yell “the piano survived the fucking Holocaust, I thought it was the one safe place!” was kind of amazing.

Conclusion: I am like 65% sure Lydia is Jewish. Am I overthinking this? I think I need to e-mail Netflix to check!

Whew! That is a lot of Jewish and Jew-ish content in a show that doesn’t really let us know whether its stars are Jewish, but I’ll take it, since it is a show all about solving mysteries.

Either way, I do recommend “No Good Deed.” While the show is not quite as emotionally resonant as “Dead To Me,” I find it a diverting and very binge-worthy whodunit. The excellent all-star cast gives harrowing, powerful and hilarious performances. The cinematography is full of really fun and inventive transition shots. The show touches on grief, addiction and infertility in ways that I feel are touching and true. I would definitely happily accept a season two (it’s currently #2 most streamed show on Netflix in the U.S. so hopefully that’s an auspicious sign for that).

Have you watched “No Good Deed”? What do you think of my Jewish assessment? Let me know in the comments!