It was aired on prime time NBC in the late 90s as "A strange affair". The network marketed it as a damsel in distress who found true love.
I'll watch, sure!
I started watching this also because I really like Jay Thomas and I've always liked Judith Light.
I suspect the actors played the characters as they were supposed to be. Needless to say, those characters are morally corrupt. ALL OF THEM!
This was a tit-for-tat marriage. "You wronged me so I'm gonna show you and wrong you back" that doesn't make you right, it debases you down to their level. And that's what Judith's character does.
She doesn't take the highroad by taking care of her husband, no, she sees it as a way to get him back. That's narcissistic manipulation, dare I say abuse?!. She gets a boyfriend and uses him to get back at her husband. Their argument, when she's cutting Jay's hair, is proof she's a narcissist user abuser. She gets him to apologize for her cruelty. Narcissist.
Her husband cheated on her. Not a good quality man, for sure, but he never brought those women home to *live* with them.
But she goes to find a boyfriend and convinces him to move it with her and her husband. Sick boyfriend with no morals. Who can even think of doing such a thing?
That makes her the heroine? That makes her the victim?
In this twisted movie, that's the claim
This is one of those movies that I just had to see to the end! It was like watching a car accident.
Unfortunately the ending was so bad! Such a gag reflex! Her husband dies, she starts necking her boyfriend, and they leave a picture up in the house of him. Focus on picture of Jay Thomas. End scene.
So cringe.
This has a mark of a lifetime movie, but this was not a lifetime movie. I'm sure the people involved with it may have a part in the lifetime network now, as this movie appears to be their moral compass.
I'll watch, sure!
I started watching this also because I really like Jay Thomas and I've always liked Judith Light.
I suspect the actors played the characters as they were supposed to be. Needless to say, those characters are morally corrupt. ALL OF THEM!
This was a tit-for-tat marriage. "You wronged me so I'm gonna show you and wrong you back" that doesn't make you right, it debases you down to their level. And that's what Judith's character does.
She doesn't take the highroad by taking care of her husband, no, she sees it as a way to get him back. That's narcissistic manipulation, dare I say abuse?!. She gets a boyfriend and uses him to get back at her husband. Their argument, when she's cutting Jay's hair, is proof she's a narcissist user abuser. She gets him to apologize for her cruelty. Narcissist.
Her husband cheated on her. Not a good quality man, for sure, but he never brought those women home to *live* with them.
But she goes to find a boyfriend and convinces him to move it with her and her husband. Sick boyfriend with no morals. Who can even think of doing such a thing?
That makes her the heroine? That makes her the victim?
In this twisted movie, that's the claim
This is one of those movies that I just had to see to the end! It was like watching a car accident.
Unfortunately the ending was so bad! Such a gag reflex! Her husband dies, she starts necking her boyfriend, and they leave a picture up in the house of him. Focus on picture of Jay Thomas. End scene.
So cringe.
This has a mark of a lifetime movie, but this was not a lifetime movie. I'm sure the people involved with it may have a part in the lifetime network now, as this movie appears to be their moral compass.