# I watched three Lifetime movies in a row last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594 "2013-07-26T15:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/1 "2013-07-26T15:38:00Z")
and lived to tell about it. Which is more than I can say for the unfortunate individuals in the movies. In the first one, the town’s preacher is suspected of murdering the abusive husband of a congregant with whom he was having a relationship. John Stamos was the minister. In the second, Adam Arkin, who plays fringe-y wierdo types better than almost anyone except Christopher Walken, is suspected of murdering his wife and possibly previous wives, too. “Based on a true story.” In the third, _Murder in the Hamptons_, which was the most satisfying of the three, a crazy blond opportunist marries a self-made rich nice guy and proceeds to get crazier and crazier to the point of gratifying (to the viewer) absurdity, and then meets poetic justice after her husband is murdered. Also “based on a true story.” I had fun. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/2 "2013-07-26T15:45:04Z")
Ahhh, I see The Victim Channel is still going strong. I love how they present the main female characters as either being abused saints or flawed people driven to the brink of insanity because of forces out of their control. It doesn’t really matter which it is because you know a man is still going to pay for it with his life or go to prison forever at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/3 "2013-07-26T15:45:34Z")
A few years ago, I got sucked into Lifetime for the day. It was a movie about an abusive boyfriend, a woman who’s a sex addict, and then an actual studio movie I’d never heard of - Mimi’s First Time. Nikki Reed decides to become a hooker, and her first client is her stepdad, and they start a relationship and murder the drunken mother, played by Carrie Ann Moss (or whatever her name is from The Matrix). It was actually really good. ETA - Alec Baldwin played the stepdad. Really really good movie, as B movies go! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/4 "2013-07-26T15:50:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I watched three Lifetime movies in a row last night > and lived to tell about it. Does that mean you then spent triple the usual amount of time sadly rocking back and forth in the shower with your arms wrapped around your knees? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/5 "2013-07-26T16:38:48Z")
I hear there’s a “Storage Wars” marathon this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/6 "2013-07-26T16:47:08Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Does that mean you then spent triple the usual amount of time sadly rocking back and forth in the shower with your arms wrapped around your knees? Damn you, NSA!! _\_ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/7 "2013-07-26T16:56:24Z")
Did you eat anything appropriate while watching - empowering yougurt energy bars, or decadent chocolate minis? ETA, I think I’ll let the typo “yougurt” stand. It’s a branding concept that may have legs ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/8 "2013-07-26T17:32:32Z")
I mostly ate Werther’s butterscotch hard candies. I also ate a peach. Pretty lame, I know. ETA: I would have liked some yougurt, as I tend to be self-centered. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/9 "2013-07-26T17:49:40Z")
They used to play “The Rape of Richard Beck”, which is now available on DVD under the title “Deadly Justice”. It’s about a male police officer who has a really bad attitude about rape victims…until he becomes one. :eek: It was made about 30 years ago, and the lead actor, Richard Crenna, won an Emmy. It’s very powerful and thought-provoking. There’s another movie they show occasionally called “The Cover-Up” which had a limited theatrical release. That one is about one of my high school classmates; there were over 500 in our class and while I knew his sister, I never heard of him until after his death. Long story made short: In 1983, when he was 20 years old, he was arrested for DUI in a city 40 miles from our hometown, and found the next morning dead in an alley between the 4-story police station and another building. He’d clearly been beaten, and the debate is still raging as to whether he was jumped or pushed. IDK if this is actually true, but the movie said that he made frequent trips to this other town, unknown to his family and friends, because he had a boyfriend in that town and his family and friends did not know he was gay. He was known to have a very serious drinking problem, and there were implications that he was also going there to make a drug connection. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/10 "2013-07-26T18:43:19Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Does that mean you then spent triple the usual amount of time sadly rocking back and forth in the shower with your arms wrapped around your knees? [For those who need a visual](http://sites.psu.edu/passionalaina/files/2013/02/kermit-shower-01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/11 "2013-07-26T18:59:53Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > They used to play “The Rape of Richard Beck”, which is now available on DVD under the title “Deadly Justice”. It’s about a male police officer who has a really bad attitude about rape victims…until he becomes one. :eek: It was made about 30 years ago, and the lead actor, Richard Crenna, won an Emmy. It’s very powerful and thought-provoking. I’ve never seen this but feel like I have. When it came out one of my aunts was blown away by it and explained it in great detail. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/12 "2013-07-26T19:50:38Z")
Awhile ago my daughter worked for Charter Cable, and after a recent channel shuffle she got a call from an irate customer wondering how to get Lifetime Movies channel back. She said _he_ was very upset, and that it was _his_ favorite movie channel and had to have it back! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/13 "2013-07-26T21:35:32Z")
I haven’t watched Lifetime in awhile but does anybody remember when they used to show **Goodfellas** on a regular basis? I wondered why they thought that film fit in with their usual fare. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/14 "2013-07-26T21:38:01Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Ahhh, I see The Victim Channel is still going strong. OP should take a break and watch the Murder and Ghost channel. (BIO) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/15 "2013-07-26T22:57:07Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > OP should take a break and watch the Murder and Ghost channel. (BIO) That would balance things out. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-three-lifetime-movies-in-a-row-last-night/664594/16 "2013-07-26T23:01:41Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I haven’t watched Lifetime in awhile but does anybody remember when they used to show **Goodfellas** on a regular basis? I wondered why they thought that film fit in with their usual fare. Because the main character had a mistress, I guess.