Pool Boy Nightmare (2020 TV Movie)
6/10
The pool boy nightmare
22 September 2023
Still fresh from a divorce from her cheating husband, Gale Foley (Jessica Morris) hopes that her new house will mean a fresh start for her and her teenage daughter Becca (Ellie Darcey-Alden). Her new home also comes with a pool, which is how Gale meets Adam Lance (Tanner Zagarino), the pool cleaner for the home's previous owner. Charmed by Adam's good looks and suave personality, Gale takes on Adam as her own pool boy--and ends up sharing a passionate fling with the young man. However she immediately regrets her action and breaks it off with the pool boy, saying that it was a mistake and can't happen again, but as this is a thriller - and a Lifetime thriller more accurately- the Pool boy doesn't accept this and shows a vengeful side by romancing her daughter as a means of getting back at her. As Gale tries to get Adam out of her and her daughter's lives, her former lover's obsession proves more twisted than she could imagine...

A fairly formulaic "Scorned Lover" drama that Lifetime can do in its sleep, but it's still fun with adequate bouts of suspense and thrills, if a little tame. It's well acted, especially by the pool boy who switches from romantic to psycho with ease. You do sort of feel sorry for him but his penchant for pouring bleach in a swimming pool burning his girlfriend's dad and self inflicting injuries so the dad can take the blame shows how ill he is.
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