We have seen the cliché plot (woman marries perfect husband but turns out to be a psychopath) many times.
In the 70s, 80s and 90s we were inundated with this theme in the true stories category, in which the story was almost always told one-sidedly from the female perspective and in which the perpetrator was usually portrayed in a very two-dimensional way without a satisfactory backstory.
This was of course to demonize the perpetrator as much as possible and to portray the victim character as sympathetically as possible.
But why not some more backstory for the perpetrator? That could give the story a lot more depth and make for a much interesting film.
Here too it is actually very cliché. The fact that the couple gets married after 4 months does not make it much more believable.
Of course this is a 13 in a dozen thriller, but still, there were moments in the film where I thought: boy, is this all you could come up with in terms of text dialogue? Such as in the dinner scene in which TY shows up uninvited and they ask him how he comes up with his characters in his books.
Funny that Michael Riley plays this role, I had seen him play alongside Brian Dennehy in To Catch a Killer and he played really well in it, even though Dennhy was superior as gacy.
