Lifetime Television for Women

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Nov 16, 2009 19:20:47 GMT -4 @neonjungle said:

and the other is "Gospel of Deceit" with Alexandra Paul who plays a preacher's wife who has an affair with a rugged handyman about 20 years her junior, and it turns out he was hired by the preacher in order to prove adultery because he didn't want to be married to Alexandra Paul any longer. The preacher also is being courted by another church or either has asiprations for a tele-evangelism show, I can't remember which, and he wants his wife out of the way. But the wife prevails in the end (after a few mental breakdowns, including one in her nightgown outside on the front lawn in the wintertime and the preacher husband just leaves her there). And the implication is that she and the 20-year-younger hunky handyman will be together forever.

Ah, Lifetime: Where even preacher husbands are evil. It makes you wonder what type of man they don't consider evil.

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We watched Mother May I Sleep With Danger yesterday, which has got to be one of the greatest titles of all time. I was surprised in the beginning how well done it was as far as the way the relationship unfolded. It was somewhat realistic. It all fell apart once Tori Spelling woke up and smelled the crazy.

She went back to their remote cabin by herself with not even a can of pepper spray to get her precious stuff, you know, like ugly yellow plates. Crazyboy caught her and she got away....then she goes back again alone with no weapon of any kind in a crappy unreliable car to get those plates safe and sound.

Meanwhile, her mom convinced the cops in Colorado to look into an old murder and they came up with plenty of evidence to suspect crazyboy. When they call Washington to get the guy for questioning Washington is all "there's not enough evidence. we can't do anything." Yeah, right! They'd be all over it. Instead mom finds out where crazyboy took her daughter, which is another remote cabin, and goes there all alone without a weapon of any kind to save her. Brilliant!

The best part is when Tori Spelling runs off to a lake and tries to get away in a canoe paddling her little heart out with one oar. As it turned out she knocked him out with an oar and got away. COD - oar whack. Crazyboy was dead....or was he?

The most tragic part of the entire tale was that the color, cut, and style crazyboy insisted Tori Spelling get was a really good look for her. If they wanted a sad ending all they had to do was show Tori trying to move on with her life with dull brown hair in a ponytail.

[twopfan]

Did you watch The Pregnancy Pact last night? It was awesome. Thora Birch was in it, which, really? I thought she had a better career than that. It was still awesome, about 5 girls who get pregnant at 15 & 16 and how incredibly stupid they are. A Lifetime classic. It was just misisng Tori, Kellie or Tracy Gold to make it perfect.

[dwanollah]

If we had cable, I totally would've watched that! Details, details!

[twopfan]

It was pure Lifetime. A high school has a pregnancy rate 4 times that nat'l average. Turns out it's Thora Birch's old school so she goes to investigate. In order to make her 'relatable' they made her a web video blogger on teen issues. There a bunch of her 'blogs' where she states the obvious. Anyway, she meets this girl, our protagonist, who had a baseball-playing boyfriend and they are all in love and whatnot. Her mom is head of the 'family values counsel' (no, I am not making this up) where they raise money for the school DAYCARE and preach about abstinence, which they don't find to be a conflicting message at all. So the girl gets knocked up and it turns out that these five friends made a pact to get pg and raise their kids together after the first one gets knocked up. The boyfriend finds out and the girl gets dumped. But not before her dad and boyfriend get arrested for assaulting the reporters that are camped out at their house. At the end you find out Thora got knocked up at 16, lied about an abortion and gave the kid up for adoption. And she is still glad she did it. The end.

Doesn't it sound awesome? Oh, and the pg girls drink and smoke and talking about wearing matching outfits with their kids. I wanted to punch them all, many, many times.

[chonies]

I missed that, but I wonder how close it was to news item it was based on[/color].

I hope they re-run it!

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I am such a Lifetime dork that I set my DVR to record this weeks ago, when I saw an ad for it in a magazine. And I haven't even watched it yet--I'm saving it for an afternoon when I don't have any plans or distractions.

[prada]

It's playing right now, and it is as awesome as twopfan says. Wow! And yes chonies, it is based on that.

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Jan 24, 2010 16:38:01 GMT -4 chonies said:

I missed that, but I wonder how close it was to news item it was based on

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I hope they re-run it! [/quote]

The locals would have us believe it wasn't at all close to the reality, they've been bitching about this movie for a while. There's no credible evidence that there was any such pact. Just a whole lot of idiot teenagers.

[dwanollah]

It may not be close to the news item, but one of my cousins' and her hs friends did something similar immediately upon graduation: got married and crapped out baybeees b/c they wanted to raise their kids together. Fuckwits.