A Lifetime’s work

There are certain plot points, reports the Incurable Insomniac, that are required for Lifetime Network movies:

  • If someone breaks into someone’s house and kills, or tries to kill them, it’s the husband, and he’s having an affair.
  • The only people who go crazy are the creative people. Obviously, writers, artists and musicians are dangerous.
  • And those people somehow have the money to survive without a day job.
  • There are only white people in the Lifetime world, unless it’s a police chief, then he’s always black. In addition, the housekeepers for the white people are either Latino or Asian. However, it’s okay to cast a token black couple as long as they live in a gated community.

I’ve never been inspired to try my hand at one of these. Maybe I should try driving a ’90s Jeep Cherokee.

3 comments

  1. McGehee said:

    9 September 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    Maybe I should try driving a ’90s Jeep Cherokee.

    Eek. I’m glad I got rid of mine, then.

  2. fillyjonk said:

    10 September 2008 @ 7:24 am

    Not sure I get the ref. Is a Jeep Cherokee supposed to be a “chick car”? You know, like the Dodge Neon?

    I will say a large percentage of my female friend-base has nothing but contempt for “Lifetime.”

  3. fillyjonk said:

    10 September 2008 @ 7:25 am

    Wait. Checked the ref. So it’s the “Lifetime” version of a pimpmobile?

    Now that IS jacked up.

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