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iariaaka All My Husband's Wives
Enjoyable TV movie.
+ I loved the reveal that Allison actually did kill Dominick. It made me want to rewatch with this new information. Because she was the main/pov character I just assumed that she couldn't have been the one so it was a great twist. I like that looking back they laid out tons of clues and hints that she was actually the killer. I loved how she set up a separate suspect to clear her name from the suspect list. I also loved how it changed Allison's confession from a lie done to protect Cheryl to Allison being a good enough person that she couldn't let Cheryl die for what she did and confessing to protect her which is just different enough to be an interesting character beat. Also I love that she completely lacked any remorse or guilt over his death.
+ I ended up loving how little this movie was about Dominick himself and was about the wives reacting and interacting. That said I did find it weird that nothing was done with the mysteries of who Dominick really was. What the hell job did he do that allowed him so much free time that he could juggle three wives? That he could afford to live three different lives? That he could have over four million in a bank?! And yet it never comes up and never impacts the story in any way. That's a little weird.
+ I did love that it ended rather happily for all the wives. Them being in a good place with each other at the end. The visit to the grave site was good and I loved their choice of headstone for Dominick. Marla having checked herself into a psychiatric institution to get some mental help. Allison getting away with the murder. I'm glad they agreed to share the money equally. I like to think they remain friends. At the very least that Allison and Marla get close and stay close.
+ Marla was so aggressive and obviously unstable, and she tried so desperately to attach herself to Allison that she immediately became the obvious suspect and I totally fell for it. I felt bad for her, and in hindsight even more so, but was still silently urging Allison to back away from her crazy clingyness while she could.
+ I wish we'd gotten more about Cheryl. By the end she still feels very much like a cipher than a fully realised character. We know basically nothing about her or her life or interests.
+ Allison is trusting Gabby a hell of a lot. Yes, Allison didn't confess to killing her husband but she did get Gabby to shoot at her and then illegally take money out of the bank as a way to create an alibi for her, which if it came out would probably make her the lead suspect. Gabby must really be hella guilty about what happened with Graham to do something like this. At the very least instead of holding it over Gabby's head you'd think this potential leverage would be enough to wipe the slate clean between them.
+ Detective Strickland asking Allison out for a date at the end was pretty awkward. As a potential relationship I actually kind of like it but the way it was thrown out there was so weird.
+ I can see how Allison let the situation with Marla escalate so much. It’s like Marla became this little voice on her shoulder encouraging her to make the most suspect choices – go to Dominick’s apartment instead of giving the information to the police, get a fake id and search the safe deposit box themselves and split the money just between them, sneak into the apartment to get blackmail materiel. She knows that these aren’t the choices she should make but she’s curious, she doesn’t like or trust Cheryl, she’s angry at Dominick, she wants to protect herself and her business. To be fair to her – Marla is the one who took the video while Allison tried to discourage her (but then she did agree to use it) and she didn’t attack Cheryl and got between her and Marla when Marla did.
+ One thing I found very weird was that Allison was supposedly the normal down-to-earth wife living an average life and yet she seemed just as alone as Marla. She has the food neighbours and others brought over but we never actually see her with anyone or talking to anyone (other than her ex-fiance). Where are her friends and family? Sure she wants to keep the bigamy on the down low but she doesn’t have one friend/family member she could or would want to lean on and talk too? Even without the bigamy her husband just died so where is all her support for that? I guess the situation between her and Gabby (and Graham) caused her to pull away and puts walls between herself and the other people in her life?
+ The casual way Allison lowered her knife and asked ‘Cheryl what are you doing here” showed that she clearly wasn’t worried/afraid of Cheryl despite apparently thinking she was Dominick’s killer and had taken a literal shot at her and I found it very weird but brushed it off as maybe a wrong acting choice. I love that after the reveal it seems like an obvious clue.
Enjoyable TV movie.
+ I loved the reveal that Allison actually did kill Dominick. It made me want to rewatch with this new information. Because she was the main/pov character I just assumed that she couldn't have been the one so it was a great twist. I like that looking back they laid out tons of clues and hints that she was actually the killer. I loved how she set up a separate suspect to clear her name from the suspect list. I also loved how it changed Allison's confession from a lie done to protect Cheryl to Allison being a good enough person that she couldn't let Cheryl die for what she did and confessing to protect her which is just different enough to be an interesting character beat. Also I love that she completely lacked any remorse or guilt over his death.
+ I ended up loving how little this movie was about Dominick himself and was about the wives reacting and interacting. That said I did find it weird that nothing was done with the mysteries of who Dominick really was. What the hell job did he do that allowed him so much free time that he could juggle three wives? That he could afford to live three different lives? That he could have over four million in a bank?! And yet it never comes up and never impacts the story in any way. That's a little weird.
+ I did love that it ended rather happily for all the wives. Them being in a good place with each other at the end. The visit to the grave site was good and I loved their choice of headstone for Dominick. Marla having checked herself into a psychiatric institution to get some mental help. Allison getting away with the murder. I'm glad they agreed to share the money equally. I like to think they remain friends. At the very least that Allison and Marla get close and stay close.
+ Marla was so aggressive and obviously unstable, and she tried so desperately to attach herself to Allison that she immediately became the obvious suspect and I totally fell for it. I felt bad for her, and in hindsight even more so, but was still silently urging Allison to back away from her crazy clingyness while she could.
+ I wish we'd gotten more about Cheryl. By the end she still feels very much like a cipher than a fully realised character. We know basically nothing about her or her life or interests.
+ Allison is trusting Gabby a hell of a lot. Yes, Allison didn't confess to killing her husband but she did get Gabby to shoot at her and then illegally take money out of the bank as a way to create an alibi for her, which if it came out would probably make her the lead suspect. Gabby must really be hella guilty about what happened with Graham to do something like this. At the very least instead of holding it over Gabby's head you'd think this potential leverage would be enough to wipe the slate clean between them.
+ Detective Strickland asking Allison out for a date at the end was pretty awkward. As a potential relationship I actually kind of like it but the way it was thrown out there was so weird.
+ I can see how Allison let the situation with Marla escalate so much. It’s like Marla became this little voice on her shoulder encouraging her to make the most suspect choices – go to Dominick’s apartment instead of giving the information to the police, get a fake id and search the safe deposit box themselves and split the money just between them, sneak into the apartment to get blackmail materiel. She knows that these aren’t the choices she should make but she’s curious, she doesn’t like or trust Cheryl, she’s angry at Dominick, she wants to protect herself and her business. To be fair to her – Marla is the one who took the video while Allison tried to discourage her (but then she did agree to use it) and she didn’t attack Cheryl and got between her and Marla when Marla did.
+ One thing I found very weird was that Allison was supposedly the normal down-to-earth wife living an average life and yet she seemed just as alone as Marla. She has the food neighbours and others brought over but we never actually see her with anyone or talking to anyone (other than her ex-fiance). Where are her friends and family? Sure she wants to keep the bigamy on the down low but she doesn’t have one friend/family member she could or would want to lean on and talk too? Even without the bigamy her husband just died so where is all her support for that? I guess the situation between her and Gabby (and Graham) caused her to pull away and puts walls between herself and the other people in her life?
+ The casual way Allison lowered her knife and asked ‘Cheryl what are you doing here” showed that she clearly wasn’t worried/afraid of Cheryl despite apparently thinking she was Dominick’s killer and had taken a literal shot at her and I found it very weird but brushed it off as maybe a wrong acting choice. I love that after the reveal it seems like an obvious clue.
