And then there is Shiva Baby (2020), a horror-comedy of WASP-Jewish blended anxiety. The protagonist navigates her father’s new wife, her ex-girlfriend, and a sugar daddy in a single shiva. The “family” is a knot of overlapping sexual, financial, and emotional obligations. Blood and law have no hierarchy here—only performance and panic.
More recently, (2020) uses the setting of a Jewish funeral service to explore the horror of modern step-relations. Danielle (Rachel Sennott) is an only child navigating a sea of distant cousins, ex-step-uncles, and her parents’ friends who have remarried twice over. The film’s anxiety isn't just about sex work or student debt; it’s about the social labyrinth of the blended family—forgetting names, misremembering which spouse belongs to whom, and the paralyzing fear of saying the wrong thing to the wrong step-cousin. MissaX 2017 Natasha Nice CTRLALT DEL Stepmom XX...