User reviews

With a tint of Detective and a pinch of Autopsy, Deadly Wives (LMN) has given us a limited series in an otherwise drought genre of killer wives.

Reminiscent of the series Autopsy (HBO), we have the ominous narration, plethora of witnesses and first-hand accounts, actual interviews, and forensic science.

Do we really know any one that well?

A short-lived series, Deadly Wives proves that a book cannot be judged by its thinly-pressed cover. The series shatters the one-way-glass stereotype of first appearances as we traverse the lives of from passive grandmas, sweet soccer moms, church leaders, to outright very hard-hearted black widows.

This is one of the best True Crime documentaries that I've watched in a while. With just 1 season and 11 episodes, I only wish that Lifetime had decided to continue this series.

The dramatizations were well done. I really don't like when documentaries have over the top acting and Deadly Wives does a good job of getting the point across without overdramatizing. The one exception to this is in episode 8 (my favorite of the series) but the wife herself was overdramatic.

The witnesses that were interviewed by the show also did a good job and helped give the show a feeling of the audience getting the complete story.

The one issue I had is that there was one episode where I knew the case. In that particular episode, a large detail of the case wasn't mentioned and the witnesses on the show weren't that close to the case. I won't spoil here which that was or what happened, but that one episode is the reason I gave this 9 instead of 10 stars.

What really made this show a winner for me was the sassy comments from the narrator. There were a few times I laughed at what she said. Again, my favorite episode was #8 and there was a line from the narrator that had me laughing so hard I had to pause the show.

Watching the show makes me think of the true story of: Blanche Taylor Moore. She was definitely a black widow on so many different level!!!!! All she mostly thought of was money. I guess that was more important then human life itself! She had no compassion towards anyone else at all except herself. It's like no one really knew her! All her background stories that was told was differently each day that went by!! If anyone got in her way it's like that person might as well labeled themselves with a tag price! Unfortunately her husband's paid the price! No one even mattered even if it was family!