The Other Wife

Series should have been cut to one episode If the cliches and plot twists that weren't needed were cut it would be a cleaner plot with a tight 90 minutes of run time. Of course the overdone music is too much also. So much of the acting is either over the top or completely flat. Clean up all the plot/ script/setting goofs of which there are many would have helped also. Of course the question remains on how so many people are clueless over so many thing and make so many bad decisions.

It is kinda sad. The basic story had promise but was destroyed by a bad director and producers that tried to turn it into something it isn't.

With fast forward to turn it into one hour of total run time it was sort of fun.

This is an excruciatingly boring 2 episode movie with very pretty scenery and locales and bad acting. Perhaps I should cut them some slack - maybe the screenplay/dialogue was a collaboration written by the 9th grade creative writing class of 2010. Rupert Everett, however, presumably could have risen above his portrayal of a cartoonish stoop shouldered Snidely Whiplash. Horrendous performance. He has forever tainted himself.

Rosamund Pilcher is an entertaining author and I hope she did not live to see this rendition of her book. I struggled through it on 4 separate occasions, just to get through it for Rosamund. In the first episode, I longed for the plane crash. Just SOMETHING interesting. And it wasn't. Going forward, I longed for the stiff and awkward ballet scenes to end quickly. They didn't. Terrible, very predictable movie.

Didn't realize this was a mini series because I watched it on Tubi but oh my word this goes SO slow with a lot of extra fluff added in that is not necessary for the plot. I can't see how anyone will care about the daughter's ballet career or half the other stuff written into this plot to make it longer. I forwarded through a lot of it to get to the meat. Not sure how to wrap this up except to say I'd pass if I were you.

This is a really bad movie, but it's so bad it's fun and good for doing "stuff".

There are the prerequisite spoiled children,of all ages. The young boy is the one that could have been seen less of and it would have been easier on us. There's nothing like a precocious child to drag down a movie.

This is a two parter and this review is based on the first part. I'll watch part two just to see how this plays out. But I think I know.

Sadly, as other reviewers have said, the acting is flat from everyone - even Rupert Evertts.

So, if you need to do the dishes or do some work on the computer, this is the very mini-series to do it to. You won't miss you and can easily catch upon what's happening in a New York second.

If you are looking for a deep intellectual, well-acted show - skip it.

I clicked on this to read the synopsis but accidentally purchased episode 1. I was annoyed at myself but thought.... John Hannah, Rupert Everett- intriguing sounding story.....I'll give it a go and not waste the money spent.

Unfortunately within 10mins i was wanting to back out due to the dated and 'straight to TV' quality, plus the cringeworthy acting. THAT little boy????!!! Gawd!!!!! I tried to continue. Give it a chance but after another 20mins i was concerned my toes would never uncurl again. Even though money is tight, life is too short and there are so many other things that are free to watch that are way better than this. I also was definitely not going to pay the £2.49 for the 2nd part so what was the point? I cannot really fairly review this because I didn't see it through but based on the 40mins I sacrificed to watch what I did, this is my summary.