What I’m Watching: Why Women Kill (Season Finale)

Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 10 “The Lady Confesses” (B+)

It was hard to expect a happy ending for this episode, but I think that things wrapped up in a pretty fitting way, given the extreme nature of the circumstances in which the characters all found themselves. There are certain members of the ensemble we didn’t even get to see again, like Catherine, who went into on-the-lam mode and managed to evade capture, and both of the men that she shot ended up surviving. Rita going to confront Alma at the big event where she was being officially installed caused exactly enough attention, with Alma so intent on protecting her newfound status that she was ready to kill her in cold blood, which unfortunately ended up staying on her wardrobe and ruining her acceptance speech. It was a haunting way to say goodbye to her, seeing how she loved the attention she got even on the day that she received a death sentence, since she merely swapped out hateful protestors for adoring fans in her mind. Bertram’s fate was considerably sadder, since he tried to take the blame for it all and protect his wife only to have her end up getting arrested anyway. I’m glad there weren’t more casualties, like Dee and Vern, though this was a stressful and suspenseful right up until the end. I’m sad that we won’t get to see these characters again but I very much look forward to seeing what this show has to offer in the season three that I hope we’ll get.

Season grade: B+
Season MVP: Allison Tolman as Alma

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 9 “The Unguarded Moment” (B+)

I really did expect Dee to confront her parents about Mrs. Yost’s murder and for that to lead to some clarity, but instead all we got was more lies, resulting in unfortunate consequences for people who weren’t innocent in all this but did not deserve the fates they’ve apparently gotten. It was miserable to see Bertram moping around, trying desperately to get Dee to see him only to have her continually reject him. That she went to her mother instead, who jumped on her lie about Bertram’s infidelity to continue to mask the truth, meant that no one got the answers they needed and Bertram ended up getting struck by Catherine’s bullet while he was walking home that night. I’m not entirely clear on what Scooter’s real motivations were and if he just wanted to be human to Rita or if he had theoretically been playing Catherine the whole time, but none of that mattered given that she acted based on what she perceived, which prompted her to bring a gun to confront the two lovers on the street. Both she and Rita will now have something to unify them given that they both cared for Scooter, though Catherine is likely to be the one spending time behind bars given the fact that she shot someone in public. Alma’s power-hungry quest to rule the garden club resulted in her failing her one true ally through all of this, and though she looks poised to get away with it, she’s not going to do so without losing the person who always believed in her all along.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 8 “Murder, My Sweet” (B+)

It would probably behoove Alma to be honest with her husband since every time she lies to him and manipulates him, he grows more resentful and more remorseful, which may lead to him confessing to a crime no one suspects him of committing. All of this has transformed Alma into someone she would never have wanted to be but she can’t see that, and I did enjoy the comical nature of some of her suggestions, like kidnapping Isabel, which were considerably more entertaining than her bold and deadly move to inject Isabel in the motel room when she said she wasn’t giving them the negative. Bertram did do a good job of writing a suicide note and leaving her to be found on the bed by Vern having confessed to killing Carlo, and it tracks with all of the memories Rita had of her cousin’s gradually-built resentment of her. What will become of Scooter is a mystery since I think even he isn’t sure of whether he’d rather be with Rita or Catherine, and Otto’s plan to oust him didn’t work as he had intended. The real open thread right now is the one caused by Alma and Bertram’s lying, prompting Dee to think that her parents killed Mrs. Yost and to incriminate herself in the return of the items stolen from her home. If she and Vern do elope, she may not be around to answer the police’s questions, but her parents will certainly have plenty to say, a tiny bit of which may even be true.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 7 “The Woman in Question” (B+)

This show didn’t waste any time in getting Rita very dramatically arrested and shifting all the power dynamics in a very interesting way. Bertram’s guilt could have been a big issue since he was already haunted by what he had done and then found out Rita had been arrested, which got him upset with Alma since she had so deliberately manipulated him into doing something that he would never have agreed to do. They didn’t have much of a chance to hash it out before it came up during their first meeting with Vern, which went okay despite an awkward start where he unhelpfully clarified that the baby wasn’t his and where his reaction to Bertram asking about Rita gave it away. Unfortunately, all this lying never leads to any good, and now Vern and Dee are going to help prove Catherine’s innocence because they think that it’s going to help her parents. As we know and Bertram pointed out, the trouble is that she is innocent, and after being kicked to the curb by Catherine, Isabel knows it too thanks to that damning photo which has Alma lurking in the background. The ultimate winner of the current situation is Scooter, who was pretending to believe Rita when he went to visit her in prison and then came close to confessing to Catherine, only to realize that he could come out ahead by acting as if he too was a victim. Cozying up to Catherine and moving into the house as her guest might go well, but it’s sure not to be pretty when Rita gets released and finds out what he’s done.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 6 “Dangerous Intruder” (B+)

There are so many layers to this show that it was hard to figure out what was going on and how many things would go wrong at that giant house in the middle of the night. I thought that Vern’s camera would surely grab a shot of Alma and Bertram sneaking around, which is still possible, and that someone other than Carlo would wake up during all of the commotion. I’m now convinced that Alma’s very clever frame job of Rita is going to come back to haunt her since there will inevitably be something that can be tied to Bertram in the evidence she left, and looking into this quiet murder may open the door for his other past crimes to be investigated. Alma also doesn’t know what we do now about the connection between Rita and Isabel, whose loyalty to her cousin makes more sense than it ever did before, and shows how Rita actually has more to keep secret than anyone knows. I’m glad that Vern took a positive approach to the news of Dee being pregnant with Scooter’s baby, and I’m hopeful that Scooter took from Catherine’s comment about how she and Rita used to be friends that she’s also just using him, prompting him to consider switching sides and telling Catherine the whole plan. It’s hard to know what’s going to happen next, which is what makes watching this juicy soap opera all the more appealing. Though many of these events feel expected in some way, the manner in which they’re presented and portrayed on this show is absolutely compelling and creative.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 5 “They Made Me a Killer” (B+)

I like that things on this show are moving relatively quickly, without too much lag time in between for a subplot to fester. Rita acted immediately to embarrass Alma in the most brutal way possible as revenge for her being related to Dee, and it was truly dreadful to watch. I like that Dee quickly figured out who it was that got her fired from her job as well, and that she recognized the photo of Rita so she was able to explain why it was that Rita had it out for her. Alma’s power play to blackmail Rita didn’t go as planned, and the unnecessary desecration of her garden was the last straw, which makes me eager to see how Alma, who does happen to be married to a serial killer, is going to take down Rita. Bertram’s trip out of town to go see his old pastor, played by Dakin Matthews, who also recurred on “Desperate Housewives,” was quite entertaining, mainly because he so eagerly and freely spouted off the many murders he had committed that made him quiver every time he heard them. It’s good that he didn’t choose to confide in someone else and instead just repeated the same confession over and over to the same unwilling listener. I thought at first that Scooter was hatching a plan to get back at Rita with Catherine, but it seems like that ploy, which is working well, is all about winning her back instead. I like that Carlo is fighting back with the only method of communication he has, and he almost managed to get Rita caught, but he’ll have to keep trying to successfully outwit her.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 4 “Scene of the Crime” (B+)

I guess I just hadn’t noticed before this that Jack Davenport, who previously played Carl, is the new narrator, and I think that’s great. I do enjoy the adages this show incorporates like “good news never comes before nine” and the entire choreography of this episode, which found Alma and Bertram frantically running back and forth between their home and Mrs. Yost’s, first to steal all of her nice things and then to distract the police who came looking for thanks to the set of additional footprints they found at the scene of her abandoned car. The surprise inspection went pretty well aside from Rita taking pleasure in humiliating Alma following her Paris slip-up, and, by the end of it all, they might have been good partners for each other, if not for Rita noticing the woman walking into the house who just happened to be the same one who had been sleeping with Scooter. It’s a bad time for revenge given how happy Dee and Vern seem to be and that he managed to survive a knife attack from a vindictive target that revealed the injury that had ended a previous relationship of his and didn’t bother Dee at all. Scooter also has his own plan to get even after Rita took all of his belongings and his towel, leaving him literally naked in the street, and whatever he’s cooking up with Catherine likely won’t end up benefiting Rita in the end at all, making this interwoven mess all the more intriguing and enticing.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 3 “Lady in the Lake” (B+)

During the time since this show’s first season aired and now, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the opening narration. Learning that Mrs. Yost was finally forced to attend a party because this time she was the guest of honor was indeed entertaining, and naturally this death cover-up turned out to be infinitely more complicated than in initially appeared it would. I enjoyed how much Alma was impressed with the taste that her nasty neighbor had, and she seemed to really get into the deception of pretending to be her and driving her car away so that it would look like she had gone out of town. Running into someone she happened to have had a memorable night with in high school couldn’t have happened at a worse time, and, in addition to creating an unfortunate witness to their antics, it also made for some unnecessary squabbling between Alma and Bertram that seemed to have been resolved by him wading into the water to rescue her purse from the sunken car. A few fingernails sticking out of her garden can’t cause that much trouble, can they? Catherine clueing the club into Rita’s illicit use of club funds for her affair with Scooter served a dual purpose of tarnishing her reputation with her friends and reminding her that she was onto her, and Catherine’s story about her father not approving of her boyfriend demonstrated, as she clarified, how much she hated Rita. Having Scooter seduce her isn’t a great plan, but I can’t imagine she’ll be going ahead with that now that Dee introduced herself so memorably. Vern obviously has personal reasons for not wanting to pursue a relationship with Dee, but he should come forward with those soon before his lack of full honesty ends up ruining that prospective romance or even any hope of friendship.

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Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 2 “Secret Beyond the Door” (B+)

I did not expect that Alma would fully figure out what Bertram was up to and that he would confess to it so quickly, but this show always has surprises in store and has to keep viewers on their toes with the latest ridiculous antics. Charting back to their first meeting was helpful in underlining that Bertram is indeed a good person, and that his first inclination when he realized that his daughter no longer respected him because she thought he had an affair was to take his own life also indicated that he was not motivated by malice. Alma going out the window to get away from him was comic but not in an excessive way, which is not an easy line to navigate, though it did unfortunately attract the attention of the very nosy neighbor who ended up getting herself impaled when Alma violently closed the door on her hand without knowing she was there. I enjoyed that it came with a bold declaration of “No more death!” and now she and Bertram are going to have to cover up this latest death so that she might actually get admitted to the gardening club. I appreciated the introduction of Veronica Falcón from “Perry Mason” and “Perpetual Grace, LTD” as Catherine, Carlo’s daughter, who really hates Rita and is going to do everything possible to expose her affair. Rita is just as serious, however, and took the opportunity to supervise his bath as a way to get rid of him for good, promising that she would get the job done next time. I’m intrigued by the budding romance between Dee and Vern, something that’s sure to complicated the very tangled web of interconnected secret relationships on this show.

What I’m Watching: Why Women Kill (Season Premiere)

Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 1 “Secret Beyond the Door” (B+)

It’s been almost a year and a half since this show’s first season ended, and I’m glad to see that it’s returning with something that seems very different but which should be equally interesting. I didn’t know anything about the format for this effort, which I expected would involve three different time periods in the same house again. I’m glad to see that it’s not the case, and instead we have something altogether new and intriguing. I was curious why Bertram was so supportive of his wife’s desire to be her own person and wondering whether the inevitable affair he was going to have would ultimately hurt her, but I didn’t guess that he was going to turn out to be a serial killer intent on helping those he thought were supposed to die end their lives in a quick but clearly untimely way. I’m a big fan of Allison Tolman from her breakout role on “Fargo,” and I haven’t been terribly impressed with the quality of her follow-up roles, like “Downward Dog,” “Good Girls,” and “Emergence.” It’s great to see her here as someone who is clearly smarter and more talented than people think she is. Lana Parrilla showed she could milk villainous characters for all they’re worth on “Once Upon a Time,” and Rita seems to be much more complicated than she initially seemed, which is great. Nick Frost is a fantastic choice to portray Bertram, and I also immediately recognized Rachel Bay Jones from “Dear Evan Hansen” and “God Friended Me” as the doomed Maisie. I’m very curious to see more of the connected threads that Alma and Rita have no idea they share, particularly involving Dee, and it’s fun that Alexandra Daddario’s real-life brother, Matthew, is keeping the family on the show as Scooter. I’m officially on board for all the soapy drama to come this season.

What I’m Watching: Why Women Kill (Season Finale)

Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 10 “Kill Me as if It Were the Last Time” (B+)

Well, this was quite the finale. Showing the characters together in the same house from different time periods was a real head trip, one that worked well to capture the chaos of the moments of violence occurring for all of the couples. Opening with each of them looking at the house to buy it and then closing with them handing the keys off to the next owners was clever, and it was a cool opportunity to get to see the older versions of Beth Ann and Simone as they met with the successive couples. I’m pleased that the deaths didn’t occur as we had expected them to, and all three situations were relatively satisfying. The least creative was in the present, where Jade stabbed Eli but he didn’t die, and Taylor stabbed Jade so that it officially counted as a woman killing. I like that they came back from what they experienced, which actually made sense since their arrangement was mostly agreed-upon ahead of time even if it got a bit out of control. Simone helping Karl to achieve a peaceful death at the time of his choosing after dancing with him was sweet, and I like the idea that Tommy ended up as a great artist who may not have encountered Simone again in his very successful life. It was decidedly creepier to think about Simone and Tommy’s affair when we saw tiny Tommy tell Simone she was pretty when he first met her as a child. April showing up when Ralph was supposed to bang down the door seemed like it was going to mess up Beth Ann and Mary’s carefully-orchestrated plan, but, fortunately, it played out almost exactly as it should have. The smile on Beth Ann’s face when Rob looked at her, realizing that she had tricked him into thinking the gun was loaded, was perfect, an effective instance of revenge after she gave him one last chance to come clean about his many lies. This show has been very involving, and I feel like I really got to become invested in the characters and their drama. The very quick fourth death was, I’d say, more of a joke than anything else, and in season two I presume we’ll meet all new characters. This show was finally renewed for a second season just one day before this finale premiered, which is a relief given the strong potential here. I’m hopeful that a new storyline will help keep it fresh and that this show will continue to offer very watchable material for many seasons to come.

Season grade: B+
Season MVP: Ginnifer Goodwin as Beth Ann and Lucy Liu as Simone

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 9 “I Was Just Wondering What Makes Dames Like You So Deadly” (B+)

This show used yet another device to introduce this episode, with dead characters narrating each of the three storylines. I’m not sure quite what to make of that, though it is important to frame exactly how the villains in each of the time periods were created. As if Rob wasn’t terrible enough already, we found out just what a manipulative, controlling person he is, fully aware that the secretary he was having an affair with left the door open which allowed his daughter to run out and get hit by a car yet happy to let Beth Ann think that she was responsible. She’s already planted the seeds of doubt in April by warning her that Rob isn’t the kind of man who would let his wife have a career, and now she’s going to make him suffer in some unknown way. This would be the time for her to apologize to Sheila and beg for her help in exacting revenge on her truly awful husband. For a couple planning to get divorced, Karl and Simone are remarkably in sync, storming out of the club with a disdainful flair, and it’s really a shame that Karl is the one being penalized for Simone’s affair with Tommy. I have a feeling that, vindictive as she is, Naomi won’t succeed in killing Simone, with Tommy likely jumping in the way to save the love of his life. In the present, Eli is lucky that Lamar was willing to help Taylor try to talk some sense into him, and him going to rehab is good news, with the threat of a homicidal scorned Jade only mildly concerning. Now why hasn’t this show been renewed for a second season yet?

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 8 “Marriages Don't Break Up on Account of Murder – It's Just a Symptom That Something Else Is Wrong” (B+)

This episode’s introduction featured three regular players, all of whom are taking on much stronger roles in the destruction of the marriages they’ve entered through affairs. Of the three, Jade seems the most malicious, hearing worthwhile warnings from Taylor about what Eli does when he’s on drugs and using that information to purposely manipulate Eli into cutting Taylor completely out of his life, accepting his gift of a car and then blocking Taylor from his phone. Speaking to her ex-boyfriend and paying his bail was a smart move, but she’s likely going to regret the consequences his return wreaks. Tommy getting drunk and crashing his car after finding out that Simone isn’t coming with him to Paris so that she can stay and take care of her sick husband was bad enough on its own, but Naomi finding out about the affair is going to be really problematic since she’s sure to exact the same kind of revenge Simone would if the tables were turned. Beth Ann talking April out of an abortion so that she could raise the baby with Rob was indeed twisted, but her intentions were good, and losing Sheila as a friend and confidante won’t be good. This show’s true villain has been revealed, and that’s Rob, who proposed to April upon learning of her pregnancy because he said his marriage would be over in six months. That’s truly cruel and unfeeling, adding villainy to the already perplexing performance from actor Sam Jaeger. I suspect that he’s going to be the first to die.

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 7 “I Found Out What the Secret to Murder is: Friends. Best Friends.” (B+)

I know that the opening and ending song had to with little white lies, but I felt like this episode was actually much more about illness and how it affected the residents of this house in each generation. The truest and most concerning development was related to Karl, who had finally been headed towards happiness as he stressed over what to wear for his date with Hector, and now is dealing with news about his health that he doesn’t want to share with an otherwise very happy Simone. That dramatic turn of events contrasted interestingly with the comedy of Simone rushing over to Naomi’s so that she could distract her before she read Tommy’s diary, something that may have encouraged a romantic trip overseas for them that surely can’t go as well as it seems it will right now. Beth Ann and Sheila were celebrating the end of April’s affair, but her calling the office repeatedly and then showing up at the house were signs that she wasn’t going away. Her pregnancy is indeed worrisome, and Beth Ann lying about having cancer is certainly going to backfire and only drive her husband away more eventually. Despite Jade’s coaching, Eli did not do a good job hiding his drug use, which was initially humorous and almost slapstick in nature until it quickly got very serious. Taylor threatening to walk out was made worse by Jade deciding to stay with him, leaving her as the lone party with both her parents united against her, which definitely is not good.

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 6 “Practically Lethal in Every Way” (B+)

The device at the beginning of each episode keeps changing, and this one was more grounded by the introduction of the three characters featured at some point during the hour. I recognized Analeigh Tipton from “Hung” and “Manhattan Love Story” as Mary, who came into focus in the sharpest way, and whose role continues to support my theory that it’s not the husbands who actually die in all cases, with her husband, played by Scott Porter from “Friday Night Lights,” feeling like the surest candidate since he’s abusive and he got Beth Ann to stand up for someone in an unprecedented way. Rob responding by blaming her for the death of their child was hardly kind, and that makes me think that he is the one who’s going to bite the dust. Simone and Karl seem to be on a relatively even playing field after the disaster that was meeting Brad’s family, which also included the accidental outing of his sister. Going to her hairdresser to try to set up an arrangement of some sort was unexpected, and I’m curious to see what comes of that. In the present, the starkest development was Jade’s response to Eli begging for pills so that he could continue to write. She’s been this aloof woman of wonder up until this point, but she demonstrated a true vulnerability and dependence that seemed to shake Eli since he’s really committing to taking care of her. More importantly, Taylor was rightfully furious that Jade had become Eli’s muse and been allowed to read his unfinished work after just a short period of knowing her, and she won’t soon forgive that even if Eli brings legitimate concerns about their new partner’s wellbeing to his wife.

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 5 “There’s No Crying in Murder” (B+)

This show is clever because it follows predictable plotlines to a degree but takes them in an interesting direction that links the three time periods together to support this show’s main themes. I was actually most involved, for once, in Beth Ann’s drama this episode, as she realized that she felt bad for the woman sleeping with her husband because he was treating April even more poorly than he was treating her. Pretending to be sick so that she could go to April’s big debut without Rob being there was smart, and of course she was going to end up having to hide when he inevitably showed up. He reacted so poorly to April’s profession of love, and I’m curious what Beth Ann will do next to punish her husband. Karl seemed so delighted to confirm that Simone was having an affair with Simone, and his acceptance of her infidelity makes her angrier than anything. I caught the fun casting of Christine Estabrook, who played nosy neighbor Martha Huber on “Desperate Housewives,” as Joyce. In the present day, Eli and Jade unsurprisingly got to bond in Taylor’s absence while she got an amused warning from her sisters about the likelihood of the two of them falling for each other without her there, especially after she saved his writing career and then got him into drugs again. Jade doesn’t seem to have any culpability in this whole thing, but I suppose that’s because she was brought into this relationship instead of starting in it with expectations.

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Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 4 “You Had Me at Homicide” (B)

Things are devolving a bit in terms of the seriousness of this already over-the-top series, and while I’m still watching closely, I hope that it doesn’t get too out of control. Opening and closing with a coroner talking about what keeps him in business is a strange device, one that reminded me a lot of similar introductions and epitaphs on “Desperate Housewives.” Beth Ann was having a wonderful time with April until she offered her pot brownies, resulting in Beth Ann predictably getting high before she had to be on display in front of Rob’s work colleagues for a dinner. Challenging his boss to a napkin-folding contest didn’t end the way I expected it to, with Rob actually noticing his wife and realizing that he needed to spend time with her for the first time since this show started. Simone hilariously set herself up for real trouble when her rejection of Tommy’s attempt at romance nearly resulted in her daughter sleeping with him. Karl defending Brad made Simone keeping their troubles a secret difficult, but she’s up for the challenge. I loved her delivery of “When you drink without a glass, Brad wins” was perfect. Eli’s efforts to be manly and impress the two women, or more importantly, the newest woman, in his life failed miserably, and he managed both to upset his wife by potentially implicating her in a crime and also compelled Duke to come charging into his home to cause as much damage as possible. It looks like Jade isn’t going anywhere, though both her new partners are feeling closer to her than to each other right now.

Take Three: Why Women Kill

Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 3 “I Killed Everyone He Did, But Backwards and in High Heels” (B+)

After a series of missteps that ended up humiliating her and making it clear just how little Rob was interested in doing anything with her, Beth Ann has managed to find her footing and figure out a way to be happy as she schemes to disrupt her husband’s affair. April telling her about the public date she was going to go on with Rob resulted in a perfect opportunity for Beth Ann to catch him in a lie by taking his already-finished project and forcing him to stay late to actually redo it. I like that she’s taking advice from Sheila, who is more than happy – if a little out of breath – to be her co-conspirator and bring her the phone when April called her. Simone’s plotline reminded me most of “Desperate Housewives” as Tommy couldn’t stand the way that Karl was treating Simone in public and wasn’t shy about showing it, spilling on him and even getting himself fired just to be able to exact some form of vengeance on him. Interestingly, Eli didn’t seem to be the problem this time with Taylor, even if he did invite himself along to their two-person clubbing date. Eli and Taylor might have an unconventional marriage, but Jade is far too fleeting for them, ready to disappear at the drop of a hat and travel around the world because that’s her nature. Asking her to move in permanently is a band-aid and nothing more, and it’s going to end up hurting both of them in the long run more than anything.

Round Two: Why Women Kill

Why Women Kill: Season 1, Episode 2 “I’d Like to Kill Ya; But I Just Washed My Hair” (B+)

In its second outing, this show demonstrates that it is following three equally interesting and distinctly different storylines. The most uncomfortable one to watch is that of Beth Ann, who wants nothing more than to be looked at by her husband who, even after falling out of the shower during an ill-fated sex act, wanted to go out and engage in an affair under the guise of a necessary business dinner. April was eager to befriend Beth Ann but revealed that she was well aware that Rob was married and that he must just be bored by his unexciting housewife. Beth Ann should really spend more time with her neighbor Sheila, played by Alicia Coppola from “Jericho,” even if some of her advice isn’t exactly right for Beth Ann’s situation. Lucy Liu is obviously relishing the opportunity to play a different role than the one she’s been occupying on “Elementary” for years, and her character’s concern is most about not being embarrassed. I was pleased to recognize another neighbor in the form of her best friend Naomi, played by Katie Finneran from “Brockmire,” “Wonderfalls,” and much more. Tommy’s catering-truck tablecloth bed may not be the most romantic place for passion, but his youthful sex drive and her anger at her husband seem to have her convinced. In the present, Jade was perfectly into the idea of a threesome with Taylor and Eli, but the closeness between Jade and Taylor is most going to be a problem since, even if Eli’s gotten over it for the moment, Taylor is realizing who she really wants to be with, and it’s not her husband. The opening scene seemed to confirm that these women do indeed kill their husbands, though it’s not entirely apparent who the murder victim is in each case, something I’m sure we’ll discover eventually.

Pilot Review: Why Women Kill

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