Plot Synopsis

From Blumhouse Television, WORST ROOMMATE EVER is a one-hour documentary series that highlights four harrowing tales of seemingly harmless roommates turning into real-life nightmares for their unsuspecting victims when their malevolent and sometimes violent intentions are revealed. These unsettling true stories chronicle the masked menace that can be lurking right down the hall. All five episodes of WORST ROOMMATE EVER's first season dropped on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 on Netflix:

"Call Me Grandma": A woman known as Dorothea Puente runs a boarding house for those less fortunate, but her seeming benevolence belies motives that are much darker.

"Be Careful of the Quiet Ones": When college student Maribel Ramos goes missing, detectives turn their focus to her roommate, K.C. Joy -- the last person to have seen her alive.

"Marathon Man": Charismatic athlete Youssef Khater commits fraud across several countries -- a series of schemes culminating in violent attacks on multiple people.

"Roommate Wanted (Part 1)": Former roommates of "serial squatter" Jamison Bachman discuss how this dark, dangerous man conned his way into their homes and then refused to leave.

"Roommate Wanted (Part 2)": Bachman's old roommates recount the steps they took to try to force him from their homes, his harsh retaliations, and the painful saga's tragic end.
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The sophomore season of WORST ROOMMATE EVER debuted on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 on Netflix, which released all four episodes of the new season. Desperation leads to danger -- and even death -- in one's own home as real-life nightmares of con artists, criminals and killers unfold. The four episodes of Season 2 are:

"My BFF Tried to Kill Me": Rachel and Janie were longtime best friends turned roommates. But as Janie's obsession with raising Rachel's young son grew, so did her killer instincts.

"Housemate from Hell": Seeking tenants for her Palm Springs home, retiree Anita Cowen takes in charming lawyer Scott Pettigrew, but the arrangement takes a terrifying turn.

"Burning Down the House": Veteran James "Bo" Bowden moves in with his army friend's widow, Tammy, to help care for her son and soon experiences a series of deadly "accidents."

"The Lethal Landlord": A viral TikTok video sends detectives to the home of Michael Dudley, a Seattle man who rented out a room to a young couple never to be seen again.