Tag Archives: Lifetime

Tread Perilously — Blue-Eyed Butcher

Tread Perilously closes out the year with a special Lifetime TV Movie event: Blue-Eyed Butcher. Based on actual events: Susan Wright is a young, blue-eyed woman with seemingly everything going for her. So what would compel her to murder her … Continue reading

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Tread Perilously — TalHotBlond

Tread Perilously concludes its TV Movie month with a real treat: the Lifetime movie TalHotBlond. When former marine and abrasives factory worker Thomas Montgomery (Garrett Dillahunt) learns about online poker from his friends, he quickly meets someone new: a young … Continue reading

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A Lifetime Roundup

It’s the week of Comic-Con and I’ve got stuff to do. It sounds to me like it’s time for everyone to learn a few lessons about life, taught by the network who took that as their name. That’s right. It’s … Continue reading

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Yakmala: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

No one movie exemplifies the Lifetime brand in the popular imagination more than the 1996 thriller/melodrama/Tori Spelling vehicle Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? But like any great story, the facts have gotten muddled along the way. The most important … Continue reading

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Lifetime Theater: Amish Grace

Certain things are intrinsically funny. Marching bands. Things getting trapped in wells. The Amish. By that metric, the funniest thing in the world would be an Amish marching band trapped down a well. I’ll stand by that. So when Mrs. … Continue reading

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Lifetime Theater: Liz & Dick

Maybe the most damaging thing to the Lifetime brand is that every Lifetime movie looks, well, Lifetimey. The oversaturated colors, the wide frames, the sunlight streaming in through a McMansion’s palatial windows, and even the fortysomething actress who’s been forced … Continue reading

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A Lifetime Roundup

It’s the week after Comic-Con and I’m still recovering. It sounds to me like it’s time for everyone to learn a few lessons about life, taught by the network who took that as their name. That’s right. It’s time for … Continue reading

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