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<\/p>\nSituational comedy of a different kind, Why Women Kill is not at all what you might expect from its title.\u00a0 Why is it that three murders have happened in the same house, all in different eras?\u00a0 Don\u2019t blame the house.<\/p>\n
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Relationships are hard, and the reasons why they fail for the couples (and in one case, a throuple) of one Pasadena mansion are essentially all the same over the decades. Someone is always wanting more. \u00a0Bloodshed is inevitable.<\/p>\n
In the glorious pastel technicolour of 1963, bubbly Beth Ann Stanton (Ginnifer Goodwin) is trying to be the best darndest wife that she can be to her husband Rob. Rob sadly though is a cheater, and he\u2019s not being terribly original about it either.\u00a0 Beth Ann is determined that the way to save her marriage is to cosy up to the unsuspecting waitress her husband is banging.<\/p>\n
In 1984, Simone Grove (Lucy Liu) is on her third husband and desperately trying to maintain her status as the most envied woman at her country club.\u00a0 Learning of her husband\u2019s gay betrayal during her own house party, Simone takes a little comfort in the arms of the night\u2019s bartender, the eighteen year old son of her best friend.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Taylor (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) and Eli (Reid Scott) maintain an open marriage with uneasy memories of Eli\u2019s past troubles with addiction.\u00a0 The rule of not forming emotional connections and keeping their hookups out of the marital home goes out the window when Taylor brings home the free-spirited Jade (Alexandria Daddario) who has a history of attaching herself to couples.\u00a0 Jade though is not as uncomplicated as she appears.<\/p>\n
Why Women Kill is bitingly funnily mix of generational satire and campy frolic filmed to extract maximum drama out of every single situation. There is plenty of teasing as to what we might expect the spurned women to do, and how the men might react\u00a0\u00a0 What the viewer never knows though is who has been killed, and who was the killer? So many possibilities. The neighbours to the most impressive house in the street are all bystanders when the sirens and flashing lights inevitably arrive.<\/p>\n
For her fans, the prospect of Lucy Liu doling it out 80\u2019s style in shoulder pads and stilettos should be enough to bring them to Why Women Kill and for everybody else, may we present Lucy Liu and Ginnifer Goodwin, and Reid Scott. \u00a0\u00a0This show is billed as the stories of three women, but it is more the story of three marriages; in the 2019 story, the husband is more the focal point as he negotiates living in a relationship with two women. \u00a0It\u2019s car crash level anticipation as we know it\u2019s all going to fall apart, we just don\u2019t know though as we watch what the tipping point to murder will eventually be.\u00a0 But it\u2019s coming!<\/p>\n