https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7cyCuMcU8k&feature=youtu.be
This Saturday night at 8p be prepared to have your world rocked by A Deadly Adoption on Lifetime. The telemovie stars Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Jessica Lowndes and it is yet to be determined if it is a comedy or a drama. What seems to be evident is that the comedic actors had a great time getting serious for it. Maybe the two actors, who are consistently nominated but never winners, will finally win an award for their work in it.
Seriously, doesn’t it look like the ultimate Lifetime movie?
Finally, who else is blown away by Hidden Citizen’s version of Mike & the Mechanics’ Silent Runnings? I never thought that song would work like that, but it is actually better that way than the original.
Even since April 1st, people have been talking about the fact that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig made a movie for Lifetime. As soon as it was announced, the two denied it and said they were no longer making it because the news had been leaked. Then a few weeks ago the rumors started again and today the network released the teaser trailer for A Secret Adoption.
So is it a comedy or a drama? It’s hard to tell from those :30 seconds. Let’s see if the description from the press releases gives us more answers. They wrote, “Inspired by a true story, A Deadly Adoption is a high-stakes dramatic thriller about a successful couple (Ferrell and Wiig) who house and care for a pregnant woman (Jessica Lowndes, 90210) during the final months of her pregnancy with the hopes of adopting her unborn child.” That didn’t help. I guess we will just have to tune in June 20th to find out.
The first cast photos are out for Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Full House Story and if there weren’t kids in it, it would like the pornady version of Full House. I mean it’s so cheap looking, it looks like the basic cable version of the show. Shall I go on?
Seriously though, even though it looks horrible and there’s no need for a scandalous movie about a squeaky clean cast, I can’t wait to see it on August 22nd. Are you going to watch it with me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj6x1WcLNcs The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe is going to be told tonight and tomorrow at 8p on Lifetime and you don’t want to miss this bioflick!
Tonight’s episode starts off with her visiting a doctor and telling him all about her life. Marilyn Monroe (Kelli Garner) starts from the beginning of her life when she used to go by Norma Jean. You see a young girl taken away from her mother (Susan Sarandon) who is mentally ill. The dreamer goes from foster home to foster home, until one day she is married off to save her from the system. As soon as she can, she tries to get into the movie business. The rest of tonight shows you how hard she had to work to become the actress we know her as today.
Tomorrow, we learn about her love life with Joe DiMaggio (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Arthur Miller (Stephen Bogaert) and the Kennedys. While looking at the men that were in love with her, you start to see her slipping away and becoming dependent on drugs an alcohol. Those substances lead to her early demise at the early age of 36.
Marilyn’s story has been told time and time again, but this one is different than the rest. I feel like in this one you get to know her the best. I think because it focused so much on the first part of her life as compared to just focusing as her life as a star. The other thing that makes this movie so lovable is that is exactly how Kelli Garner plays her. Monroe was loved and I think Garner captured that essence of her the most out of all of the other actresses who have played her in the past.
Lifetime has been plagued with some really hideous biopics in recent years, and The Secret Life of Marilyn looks to be turning things around for the network.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQjCdVGkGI
Lizzie Borden took an axe, killed her father and stepmom, got acquitted and now what? That is what Lifetime’s mini-series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles is going to tell us beginning tonight at 10p.
Now that the trial is over, Lizzie (Christina Ricci) and her sister, Emma (Clea DuVall) are trying to get their lives back to normal. Only problem is everyone is trying to get a piece of their money. Without money, how will they be able to do that? To make matters worse, where ever they go people seem to die. Even though Lizzie has been cleared of her parents’ murder, cops are wondering if she is the suspect in these latest crimes? Is she or is it just a coincidence? You will just have to tune in to find out.
When I heard about this mini-series I was looking forward to see what they were going to do with it. While I enjoy the story, I hate the editing. It feels like an artsy independent horror film and I am not a fan of those type of movies. If you can get past that, then you will enjoy the story loosely based on one of the most notorious females of the late 19th Century.
