This movie was very easy to watch albeit predictable and nothing new. Bonnie is probably the most played straight villain of 2022 Lifetime. This lady is crazy and she had no redeeming qualities which made her easy to hate.
I appreciate the "creativity" with the main conflict of the movie being an Avon/Mary Kay type of business lol. I don't think Lifetime has done that before. I usually like to know why villains are the way they are, but knowing how Avon/MK/etc work, it's not a stretch to believe Bonnie was overly competitive and would use and strong-arm her "friends" to help her sales numbers. The backhanded compliments and subtle shade were well done by the actress.
The acting was the most iffy part of the movie. It was a bit stiff and some of the dialogue was kind of on the nose in some places. I thought the movie was a lot of tell not show, so a montage of both Bonnie and Charlotte actually being seen selling the products would have been nice. I think Bonnie cared about winning more than she cared about her husband's infidelity, so in some ways the opening scene was overly violent considering how the movie played out.
I do wish they'd told us definitively what happened to Bonnie. A cast iron to the head is probably fatal, but being that this is Lifetime, it would be nice to know for sure. Although I will say Bonnie was the type of villain that it would have annoyed me to see alive and manipulating the prison guards in the end like in most of these movies. I also wanted to know what happened to Christian. They never actually said what crooked things he did in his business, so what was his fate in the end? Jail? Nothing? With Bonnie dead, who was going to tell?
One of the better 2022 ones. Bonnie was like the adult version of the mean girl from Psycho Sweet 16, another movie from this year. I'd recommend at least one watch.
