Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-03 (Monday)

On 2/4/2025 11:08 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/4/25 8:17 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
 

On 2/4/2025 7:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/4/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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After an arduous workout, I watched:
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Nothing.
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What did you watch?

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Monday's are going to be my longest workdays (by far) this semester. So yesterday, all I got through was DOOL and a Lifetime flick I had missed:
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The Sunday before last, I just plum missed a Lifetime flick - didn't record it; forgot it was even on! So that meant:
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Match, Meet, Murder (OnDemand) - This flick I had to pull off OnDemand (which meant it had the usual commercial load, and 2-hour runtime) because I forgot to record it.
    This flick was just OK, if that.
    Lingerie(! 'cos, of course!) fashion designer (Stephanie Sy) uses a dating app and is matched with a "millionaire" (Jacob Blair, who usually plays baddies in Lifetime flicks). Her friend quickly shows her that the dude was previously on a reality show (something like "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire"!) - the friend then reports that the winning woman/ fiancee "disappeared" (we see her get murdered in the film's opening), and this doesn't set off any alarm bells about the "millionaire" dude!!??!!
    We also meet the reality show's producer/host (Lisa Marie DiGiacinto), a smarmy piece of work.
    The film pretty quickly reveals that the dude is at least some kind of con man.

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He was a fake millionaire on the millionaire show?

 SPOILERS:
Yes. And the producer covered that (and his crimes!) up after she found out, lest the scandal tank her reality TV show and her industry credibility!!
 

I wasn't even thinking in terms of scandal or coverup.  Some of these millionaire matchmaker shows have fake millionaires as part of the gimmick, and the women have to guess which one of the men has money. Then there was one where the show flat out lied to the women about the guy being a millionaire.  But I guess this puts a new twist on things if even the show didn't know.

Which pretty much means he also has to be a murderer.
    This flick pretty much goes exactly where you expect it to.
    The only thing I really kind of liked here was the film's implication that the real villain of the piece was the reality show! producer! (Reality show's producer = worse than murderer! Ha!)
    But as Lifetime flicks go, this one definitely belongs in the bottom half.