Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story

Starring "One Tree Hill" alumni Jana Kramer and Austin Nichols, and also featuring Kramer's real-life daughter, "Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story" is very well done. It's actually quite a chilling and disturbing story. Kramer plays the titular role, and she is slowly but surely being gaslit by her husband/childhood sweetheart played by Nichols.

Both Kramer and Nichols put in solid performances. Nichols deserves particular kudos given the monster of a character he had to bring to life, and he does so plausibly. It must have been a tough shoot for the actor, having to slip routinely into that role. It's really an uncomfortable watch, the way Nichols' Rodney goes about making her think everything his her fault.

There are some very uncomfortable scenes focusing on domestic and sexual violence (though not too graphic, thankfully) throughout what is one of Lifetime's best offerings in a long while.

Kramer has done good awareness work around the subject of domestic violence through her strong social media presence, too.

As far as I can ascertain this story was based on a true event. However it was obvious from the beginning that the writer did not really know how to take the truth of this event and formulate it into a coherent watchable story. It jumps around all over the place from the present back then 8 yrs on then who knows where. There is no cohesiveness and it appears very rushed through making it hard to believe at one point I thought both lead characters could do with psychiatric help. The ending was abrupt and matter of fact.