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Why Women Kill

  • TV Series
  • 2019–2023
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8.3/10
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Allison Tolman in Why Women Kill (2019)
"Why Women Kill." The hit anthology series is back with a new cast, season & story. Exclusively on Paramount+.
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An anthology series that follows three women in different decades all living in the same house, as they deal with infidelity and betrayals in their marriages.An anthology series that follows three women in different decades all living in the same house, as they deal with infidelity and betrayals in their marriages.An anthology series that follows three women in different decades all living in the same house, as they deal with infidelity and betrayals in their marriages.

  • Creator
    • Marc Cherry
  • Stars
    • Jack Davenport
    • Lucy Liu
    • Allison Tolman
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    8.3/10
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    • Creator
      • Marc Cherry
    • Stars
      • Jack Davenport
      • Lucy Liu
      • Allison Tolman
    • 357User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Jack Davenport
    Jack Davenport
    • Karl Grove…
    • 2019–2021
    Lucy Liu
    Lucy Liu
    • Simone Grove
    • 2019
    Allison Tolman
    Allison Tolman
    • Alma Fillcot
    • 2021
    Ginnifer Goodwin
    Ginnifer Goodwin
    • Beth Ann Stanton
    • 2019
    Lana Parrilla
    Lana Parrilla
    • Rita Castillo
    • 2021
    Kirby Howell-Baptiste
    Kirby Howell-Baptiste
    • Taylor Harding
    • 2019
    B.K. Cannon
    B.K. Cannon
    • Dee Fillcot
    • 2021
    Alexandra Daddario
    Alexandra Daddario
    • Jade
    • 2019
    Jordane Christie
    Jordane Christie
    • Vern Loomis
    • 2021
    Sam Jaeger
    Sam Jaeger
    • Robert Stanton
    • 2019
    Matthew Daddario
    Matthew Daddario
    • Scooter Polarsky
    • 2021
    Sadie Calvano
    Sadie Calvano
    • April Warner
    • 2019
    Nick Frost
    Nick Frost
    • Bertram Fillcot
    • 2021
    Reid Scott
    Reid Scott
    • Eli Cohen
    • 2019
    Virginia Williams
    Virginia Williams
    • Grace Berk
    • 2021
    Veronica Falcón
    Veronica Falcón
    • Catherine Castillo
    • 2021
    Alicia Coppola
    Alicia Coppola
    • Sheila Mosconi
    • 2019
    Leo Howard
    Leo Howard
    • Tommy Harte
    • 2019
    • Creator
      • Marc Cherry
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    User reviews357

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    10ahmar_shad

    Damn the finale is just perfect!

    This is a 7/10 show but what a wonderful direction and camera work in the finale 10/10 for that.
    9Sara_Tor

    Slowburner In the Best Way

    This was a slowburner for me.

    When I started the show I wasn't sure, and by the end I thought it was one of the best I've seen. It's funny, original, and heartwarming (but not cheesy). Lucy Liu and Ginnifer Goodwin are absolutely fantastic. Watch it! You will be glad you did.
    9sophia55

    Keeps getting better

    This show started out strong and continued to improve, culminating in an absolutely breathtaking season 1 finale. This show took cliched subject matter and turned the "women who kill" trope completely on its head by creating incredibly nuanced female characters. Initially, I found the Lucy Liu storyline to be the weakest, relying too heavily on stereotypes. But over the course of a few episodes, her storyline quickly became the strongest, and was expertly acted by both Lucy Liu and Jack Davenport. I laughed, I cried, I'm waiting with baited breath for season 2!
    9phd_travel

    Great formula and cast

    For all those people who have missed Desperate Housewives, this wonderful series fills the gap. The three time zone formula is delightful and has keeps things from getting stale. Eye opening contrast about how fidelity an unfaithfulness are handled in the 60s, 80s and now.

    The cast is well suited to their roles. Ginnifer is cuddly as the initially doormat 60s housewife and Lucy is good as the status conscious 80s woman with a gay hubby. In the present day Alexandria Daddario is quite pretty as the bisexual temptress.

    This show really fills a void.
    7ramair350

    If you like Desperate Housewives, you will love it (EDIT - SEASON 1 ONLY)

    EDIT: My original review was for the full season 1. Loved it. My wife and I watched season 2 ... well, half of it anyway, and just could not keep going. For me personally the magic was completely gone. Hard to pinpoint why, but I missed the clever narrative devise of multiple timelines from the first one. It wasn't terrible, but with so much great content available these days it simply was not worth my time to continue watching. The critics have the opposite opinion of mine, so obviously some people may love season two, good for you, glad you enjoyed it :-)

    My new rating of a 7 reflects a 9 for season one, and a 5 for season two.

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    ORIGINAL REVIEW

    I enjoyed Desperate Housewives (yes a guilty pleasure) when it was on, and nothing has quite filled that "dramedy" niche for me since. Well, the same creator rolled out Why Women Kill, and it feels completely the same (pacing, filming style, writing, humor). But it is freshened up a bit and has the multiple storylines across different eras, plus has been retooled as anthology style with independent seasons (I love this trend by the way). But if it had a woman narrating the beginning and end you would swear you had just watched Housewives! Anyway, that's it ... plain and simple, if you loved Housewives then this show is for you. And if you never saw Housewives and enjoy a fun and quirky comedy show (almost a comedy soap opera in way), then go watch that first!

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    • Trivia
      Every episode title in Season 1 is a parody of a movie line or catchphrase. Every episode title in Season 2 is named after a 1940s or 1950s film noir.
    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits for season one are animated in a comic book style and feature women from different time periods killing their husbands for various reasons. The song "L.O.V.E" plays for ironic effect. (1) A man in the 1950s is drinking and smoking in the bathtub. His wife, annoyed by his boorish habits, enters the bathroom holding an electric fan. She plugs the fan into a nearby socket and tosses it into the tub, electrocuting her husband to death. (2) A 1920s man yells at his wife. The woman, fed up with his verbal abuse, pushes him down a flight of stairs. The man dies at the foot of the stairs, having broken his neck from the fall. The woman, initially shocked at the outcome, soon smiles at the idea of ridding the world of her insulting husband. (3) A couple in the 1990s is celebrating their anniversary with a romantic dinner. The husband pushes a present towards his wife. After opening it, the wife is angry and offended to learn it's a clothes iron. She hits her sexist husband on the head with the iron and he dies of blunt force trauma. The woman then finishes her meal. (4) In the 1980s, a man is watching sports on TV. He is shouting, eating messy food, and wiping his hands on the chair he's sitting in. His wife enters behind him; she is sick and tired of his slovenly ways. She pours gasoline around her oblivious husband, lights a match, and throws it onto the gasoline trail. She watches in twisted delight as her slob of a husband burns to death. (5) In the 1970s, a woman in a car sees her husband kiss a younger woman. Furious at his infidelity, the woman drives her car toward him. The husband tries to run away, but is hit by the car. He is sent flying and lands on his head, dying immediately.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Why Women Kill: Truth, Lies and Labels (2019)

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    • Release date
      • August 15, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Frank's Coffee Shop, Burbank, California, USA(Jansen's Diner 1963)
    • Production companies
      • Imagine Entertainment
      • CBS Television Studios
      • Acme Productions
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