Deceitful Dating

3 attractive/semi attractive women one married to him the other two totally into him made absolutely zero sense. Derek Hamiltons acting skills aren't even there. He looks and acts like a bumbling father who has this "I'm the rooster in the hen house" attitude. Alice seems helpless. Chelsea is a teenager who you'd like to punch. I didn't mind her. Being bad is sometimes a good thing. She was an ok character. The father is the major issue. What a tool. Old man sweaters. Old man walk. Just a total bore. Should've of killed him off with a heart attack and kept his wife alive to make a womens love triangle. That would've saved this mess.

Watching this movie on Lifetime Movie Network, I finally realized why these LMN movies are mediocre at best: there are so many commercials that the effective running time of the movie is maybe an hour to an hour and ten minutes, so there's no time to develop a plot. Thus, things happen so quickly that it's hard to see how parts of the plot work together.

Early in the movie, Chelsea, the oldest daughter, laments to both Alice (the dad's new love interest) and Jillian (her late mom's best friend) that her boyfriend Derrick has been cheating on her with her best friend, Rose. Both Alice and Jillian tell Chelsea not to take it. Then, in the next scene, Rose - who has never been shown before in the movie, so the viewer doesn't know who she is - gets mugged. We learn who she is in the next scene, when Chelsea visits her in the hospital. Rose mentions she thinks her attacker was a woman because she was short and had long dark hair. That immediately makes the viewer realize the villain has to be either Alice or Jillian!

Chelsea does all this sleuthing to find out Alice isn't who she said she is (but there's a reason). We also find out Alice's ex-husbabd is murdered. Yet the murder is yet another disparate part of the plot - there is no scene, or appearance of the ex-husband; the viewer is simply told.

Chelsea continues her amateur detective work, finds the true villain, gets pursued by her, until a freak accident occurs which kills the villain cold, just as the father and the other woman come to Chelsea. The movie then has a cold end.

Lame-O.

Logan (Derek Hamilton) is a struggling single dad to two girls, Chelsea (Karis Cameron) and Sophie, after recently losing his wife six months earlier. Alice King (Christine Chatelain) is the intriguing new neighbor. As she gets closer to Logan, Chelsea and family friend Jillian get more suspicious. And then the police informs them that her ex-husband suddenly turns up dead.

The ex-husband story should come in a lot sooner. Alice is not suspicious enough for too long. Maybe the angry ex-husband can show up at the door. There needs to be more back and forth. This Lifetime movie is doing a very slow boiling drama. It's too slow for too long.

John is a widow with 2 teen daughters, Chelsea and Sophie. Alice, a single woman moves across the street. John and she have an instant connection but is Alice who she says she is? Chelsea is suspicious but should she be? You'll have to tune in to watch. This movie dragged and was a little uneven in terms of pace. It could have been better but it was OK. Watchable one time.

Not that they care, but this is it: I'm giving up on Lifetime. I've taken long breaks from their formulaic juvenile dime-a-dozen turkeys a few times over the years, and unfortunately they seem to be getting worse with each new 2021 movie. This one not only was slow and boring, but the title (Deceitful Dating) has nothing at all to do with the storyline. LMN seems to think its viewers are idiotic children - enticing them with such horribly lame, pandering titles and plots.

Or maybe it's the writers and producers who are the true idiots.

Good riddance, Lifetime garbage.

Grade F- / 1 out of 10 (would be 0 out of 10 if possible)