Why are Lifetime movies so terrible these days?

[Anonymous]

I saw one the other night where a guy had two wives/families and decided to leave one family because he couldn't afford two anymore. A chick from party of five was the lead character and Parker Stevenson was a cop investigating the case. It was awesome. The acting was awful. The plot line was as well. But it's a lifetime movie...what do you expect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw one the other night where a guy had two wives/families and decided to leave one family because he couldn't afford two anymore. A chick from party of five was the lead character and Parker Stevenson was a cop investigating the case. It was awesome. The acting was awful. The plot line was as well. But it's a lifetime movie...what do you expect?

I liked that one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're so bad and it's great. I wandered in half way through a movie the other day about some guy who was obsessed with the 50's and kept kidnapping women and locking them up in his perfect 50's bunker.

This sounds amazing. I must watch.

I prefer the Christmas Lifetime movies because they are usually lighter and the woman is not in constant danger of being murdered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always loved them for their blatant awfulness. Kind of the same reason I like a McChicken now and then.

What, precisely, is wrong with with a McChicken (besides, arguably, the ridiculously high sodium content)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw one the other night where a guy had two wives/families and decided to leave one family because he couldn't afford two anymore. A chick from party of five was the lead character and Parker Stevenson was a cop investigating the case. It was awesome. The acting was awful. The plot line was as well. But it's a lifetime movie...what do you expect?

Was that with Hailey Duff? And the son had some medical issue? Asthma maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always loved them for their blatant awfulness. Kind of the same reason I like a McChicken now and then.

holy shit! i nearly spit out my coffee

and now i want a mcchicken

[Anonymous]

Ugh they are updating "Mother May I Sleep with Danger?" and it has a lesbian vampire theme. No. Just no.

[Anonymous]

I had a client telling me about her crazy life, then she digressed, talking about a friend... and just when I started to think 'this sounds like a lifetime movie...' the client was like...' wait... which friend of mine was that....' freezes and blushes 'oh, nevermind I think that was a lifetime movie'...

I LOL so long and hard... so clearly someone somewhere is watching and buying into the plot so strongly she thinks it's real.... probably remembered Valerie bertinelli or Hailey Duff wasn't her friend....

[Anonymous]

I think Lifetime movies deteriorated rapidly in the last 6-8 years. Last time I watched a bunch of them was 7 years ago while heavily pregnant and they weren't that awful! For some reason, the majority of plots were related to high school drama: bullying, cliques, pregnancies.. I remember the one where a girl was a track athlete and the coach was sexually abusing her; back in the day, those movies weren't half bad! At least they were somewhat grounded in reality, and the viewers could actually imagine events like that happening in real life.

These days the plots are completely off. About a month ago I stumbled upon the movie where this young guy shows up at this woman's doorstep and claims to be her son who was kidnapped as a child. When the family orders a DNA test, he forces the younger child in the family to give a sample, then walks in a lab that, of course, is empty, and switches his swab for that of the child.. I mean, c'mon!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lifetime and Hallmark christmAs movies are the best. and I'm Jewish.

Agree. I can watch marathons of them!

Both my Jewish mother-in-law and my priest uncle have DVRs full of these movies.

OMG, I love them all. And also ABC Family channel. I love when they do their 25 days of Christmas. My family thinks I'm totally weird because we do not even celebrate Christmas. lol

[Anonymous]

I havent really watched a lifetime movie in years but just so happens I watched 2 in the past week and they were both really good. One was about a newly married couple that moves back to his hometown into a home he inherited from his prior wife. The maid who has always worked in the house is super weird and was a big fan of the first wife so she wants the new wife gone.

The other one was about 3 high school girls who try to get revenge on another girl for sleeping with one of their boyfriends. They take her to this remote location to scare her and end up accidentally killing her.

[Anonymous]

I'll DVR a bunch only when I see they were made in the early/mid '90s, then have a Lifetime Movie binge watch. They were so serious and earnest back then!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They used to be so good in the 90s. What happened??!!

Please tell us more about yourself. I don't think I've ever met someone who watches Lifetime movies.

[Anonymous]

I look forward to my "Lifetime Weekends" as nothing is better than popping up some popcorn & lying in bed watching a good suspense/thriller.

Last night, I saw "Killing Mommy" which actually had a surprising twist involved.
*No Spoilers!*

Even though the final acts are usually the same, I still love these darn cheesy films.

I grew up a huge fan of the incomparable V.C. Andrews and appreciated their trilogy of movies from the books.

And the Lifetime movies I really enjoyed best are "Nanny Cam" & "The Housesitter."

Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Even as a kid I thought they were bad. I remember Nancy McKeon playing a battered wife and thinking "Jo would never let anyone hit her!"