That accent was just....*shudder*

I haven't watched Lifetime in probably just over a decade so I was hoping that perhaps they'd finally moved beyond the Woman the Victim, Man the Victimizer formula. Once I accepted that I was to be disappointed, I could relax and enjoy the train wreck.

There is something to that old chestnut about misery loving company because knowing that jalabert was watching it, even if she was cheating and watching that Fake Archaeologist Josh and only peeking into the MS train wreck, made it better. "Oh! I thought he was a gigolo in this but he just raped her! Oh! He's a stalker, too! And a blackmailer!" By the time he got to murder, well, I was gleefully along for the ride. :)

Within the first twenty minutes, jalabert said to me, "You know he has to die, don't you?" Which, of course, I did but I was hoping for maybe a good death scene for MS to sink his acting teeth into but, alas, we didn't even get that.

On the shallow end, whoever did his lighting lighting an hair dye should be drawn and quartered but the person responsible for dressing him in yummy clothes (at least at the beginning) deserves kudos.

"Oh! I thought he was a gigolo in this but he just raped her!

Er, re-reading that now I thought I'd clarify "just raped her" was meant as "he just now raped her when I thought he was going to be a gigolo" not "Oh, he's just a rapist rather than an evil gigolo."

::nodnod::

I was kind of hoping for a minute there -- and I think we were supposed to be suspicious for a minute -- that the person who set the judge up was her old (female) friend. That would have been a somewhat interesting twist. But I gather that it would have subverted the Lifetime-movie formula a little too much. Ah, well.

::grins:: at you and jalabert. These things are definitely more fun with company. And I was surprised too, after hearing that he was going to play a 'male prostitute' (and I forget where that information came from now, but maybe it was deliberate misdirection away from the incredibly obvious set-up *g*).

Heh, about his death scene, I wondered if getting shot was as annoying as getting zatted. *g*

Yes, yummy clothes!!

I had so hoped they were going to leave the rails and have the female friend be one of the Bad Guys. Or turn the Victim of the Evening Movie into a personal growth as her judicial philosophy changed as a result of her experience or...something. Sadly, it was not to be. Perhaps my second clue -- after the network airing it -- should have been the casting choice of Anne Archer.

I think they deliberately misled us about his role. My cable DVR description described him as a gigolo. Now, yes, he hired himself out to put her in a compromising position but if Cancer Man is to be believed, the rape wasn't part of the deal so I suppose I'm supposed to believe Jack's comment about "You're so beautiful" is supposed to mean that he was so moved by her unconscious form that he raped her? Um, ewwww, and no, men don't rape because the woman is just too sexy to resist, and, and...damnit, this is why I don't watch their movies. They get this stuff all wrong.

What was my point? Oh yeah, the gigolo thing was a ruse. I anticipated an entirely different kind of movie but, hey, I'm shallow. I can enjoy the nice clothes, the little bit of skin (very, very little), and the opportunity for Michael Shanks to go wacko.

(And I am so not making the whole, "Michael is Jack and going wacko" jokes. Really. ;-) )