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Top 10 Lifetime Villainesses of 2022 (Part 1: #10 - #6)
Wow! This is my second year doing this list on Vocal, and as amazing as 2021 was, 2022 truly gave us some immensely memorable and awesome Lifetime film villainesses! I did have a devil of a time devising this list, as there were so many I could feature, so whittling it down to the top 10 was quite a task, but I managed to do it. Regarding this year's list, I decided to do something different this year. How different? Well, I can't tell you that. You'll just have to read on and see. One similarity: the top 1o list will be split into two parts, and Part 1 goes as follows:
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Chelsey Parker (Blue Bloods)
If there's one thing I've learned while binge-watching the long-running CBS series, Blue Bloods, it's this: the series is chock full of deliciously sinister villainesses. My story collection on Vocal is proof of that, as I've done profiles of four different villainesses from the series, which has aired on CBS since 2010 and is ongoing. The villainess count has been quite low in recent seasons, but it's still pretty high overall, and it includes quite a deranged one in the episode, "Lonely Hearts Club."
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Ann Merriweather & Virginia Grant (Thriller)
The late 1950s-early 1960s featured quite a trend on TV: horror/suspense anthology series. It was the period that gave us the original Twilight Zone, as well as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but the show that I'm focusing on in this review is the underrated series, Thriller. I had been familiar with the show, it popped up in reruns on all sorts of channels, but I didn't actually watch this show until two years ago--August 2020, to be exact. The pandemic was at its highest peak, and the sports pause allowed me to watch a lot of other things, including doing some binge watching. Among the number of shows I did enjoy watching was Thriller, which aired for two seasons between 1960 and 1962.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Rose (Supernatural)
Season Eleven of Supernatural had quite a memorable storyline, and that's an understatement. Not only did it kick off what would be the final one-third of the series, but the season's centerpiece was The Darkness, which was released after Sam and Dean actually killed Death in the tenth season finale. Yes, you read that right. The Winchesters actually eliminated Death, and that led to The Darkness being released. So the brothers and their allies had a lot on their plate during the 2015-16 season, which I enjoyed watching every Wednesday night. Even with all of that, as we've seen in every season, we still had the "monster of the week" episodes, with one of them being "Red Meat."
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Alex (Dhar Mann Studios)
You know, I've been watching Dhar Mann's films for just over two years now, which is about right because it was right when the pandemic was at its highest height, and those vids (among others) got a lot of attention. I have enjoyed a lot of Dhar Mann's vids, but in recent months, I've had the same thought: "You know, some of these vids need the Lifetime approach." Dhar Mann's vids have the family friendly approach, but other platforms who have "borrowed" from that same diagram have told darker stories and featured some immensely heinous villains.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Brianna (It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder)
Weeks ago, I went on The Futon Critic (a site I've gone to for a long while regarding info on upcoming Lifetime movies), and saw this title for an upcoming film: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder. I had to do a double take. A Lifetime Christmas thriller film?! Those don't happen. Granted, Lifetime Movie Network does air the typical thrillers while the main network celebrates the holidays with sweet-natured films. But I think this is a first: a Christmas-centered LMN film that is also one of our deliciously wicked thrillers! An absolute miracle!
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Linda Fusco (Monk)
One of the craziest developments and swerves in Monk's eight-year history occurred during the show's sixth season, but to properly tell this, I have to go back to Season Five. The episode, "Mr. Monk, Private Eye," centered on just that: Natalie had coerced Monk into going into the private eye business, despite Monk's aversions to the idea. Sure enough, the pair receive their first client, a realtor named Linda Fusco, who hired the pair to investigate a minor accident involving her car. Sure enough, the accident ends up evolving into a case regarding an unrelated murder, and Linda is along for the ride, which included her first meeting with Capt. Leland Stottlemeyer.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Jennifer O'Brien (Supernatural)
The eighth season of Supernatural was quite a crazy one; for one, it was coming off Dean and Castiel ending up in Purgatory after eliminating Dick Roman (couldn't stand those damn Leviathans). While they do emerge in Season Eight, the home stretch of the season has Sam going through trials in a quest to keep all demons locked in Hell permanently. So this was quite a big year for Team Winchester, but that didn't mean we wouldn't see some wonderful one-off cases during this wild season.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Wendy Bouchard (Fatal Family Reunion)
I was quite elated when I learned that this film, Fatal Family Reunion, would hit Lifetime Movie Network on Thanksgiving weekend, which has featured its share of amazing thrillers over the years. Another classic from Marvista, I learned about this film on their site a few months ago, and of course, it comes just two weeks after we were treated to one amazing villainess, and regarding this film, it also delivered.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Game Changer OTT Release Date . AI-Generated.
Enigma me this: how would you make a film for an age familiar with consuming Instagram reels yet create a film that endures 2 hours and 45 minutes? That is 165 minutes—identical to around 330 reels, assuming that a reel holds consideration for 30 seconds. For the more sensible range of 10 seconds for every reel, we're checking 990 reels out. As per a concentrate by MS College's Branch of Measurements, Gen Z consumes somewhere in the range of 360 and 480 reels in two hours every day. The speed of their visual utilization is directed by the swipe of a thumb, an unending stream of movement and dopamine hits.
By Tanushree Dasabout a year ago in Geeks
Top Dramas That Will Have You Hooked From the First Episode!. AI-Generated.
There is something transcendental about those initial minutes of a drama series. the lot leading the expectation the call of the electric elements to get. If well Rund a drama can draw you in extremely in the most visceral way and not let you hit pause. the top seconds are the about important—it need hand you lot the look or good get you curious inch the characters. If that's the case then for dramas that will guys right off the bat here are some dramas that will hold you captive. bank me you work binge-watching ahead you love it. 😎📺
By Charlotte is Here!about a year ago in Geeks
Villainess Review: Tara (Mother's Deadly Son)
November is a familiar month for Lifetime movie fans such as myself; while Lifetime focuses on the holiday themed movies, we do get treated to the usual thrillers on Lifetime Movie Network on Fridays. In the case of the latest film, it was Mother's Deadly Son, which centered on Marianne Davis, a divorced mother of two who tragically became a mother of one, when her older son, Ayden Davis, tragically fell to his death off a the top of a rock mountain. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that Ayden's younger brother, Jacob Davis, finds himself accused of killing his brother, having spent two years being under the cloud of suspicion.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
