Super duper long overdue again. It’s 4am on a workday and I’m still awake cos dem thoughts are haunting me again. Anyway,

Just (like 2 months ago!) Finished Why Women Kill. Came in wanting to see Lucy Liu but only realised that it was the wrong season about 4 episodes in (don’t ever trust non official sites haha)

But I stayed on to finish the wrong season anyway haha. Season 2 of Why Women Kill was still about women killing but there was a more focused storyline about this lady called Alma who was portrayed as fat and stupid (sorry for bluntness), or rather a simple housewife who had lofty dreams of entering some elite gardening club.

Despite her neighbour warning her to snap out of her fantasy because it’s just a lame club where Tai tais gossip about each other and that she was not atas enough to be a part of it, she was still determined to get into it. But along the way she got caught up in her lies to act like one of the uppers; she let her jealousy take over and she started killing to get what she wanted.

At first she was just silly to me. And naive. Like just an obiang housewife with no dress sense and worst of all, not smart. And with her husband’s secret revealed, it did look like her husband was the bad guy and she was a victim. But things really took a turn when she made use of her husband (and her hold of him) to get what she wanted. I seriously began to hate the character and wanted to skip all her scenes. (Oh ya her daughter was also chubby like her and I hated her guts to chase after guys?) The girl not impt but anyway

I was reminded of Ronald Dahls famous quote from Twits where “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

Initially Alma was just unpleasant to me, look and character wise, but after she started killing and doing all those disgusting things it was clear to me that she was just ugly. Same like her daughter but at least she had some saving grace.

On the other hand, the original antagonist Rita, (rich 60s mean girl) though she did some pretty (no pun intended) scheming stuff like sabo-ing Alma and embarrassing her in front of the other Tai tais, she never took her pranks further by involving murder. Perhaps she was like what Ronald Dahl said too, compared with Alma the stuff she did was considered pretty mild and with her pretty exterior it made it easier to watch her.

But in the end she was killed by Alma and didn’t manage to elope with her bf *cries* despite that it’s a good ending though, Alma got jailed for all the bad stuff she had done but all the nice people were killed by her 🙈

I particularly liked how Rita reflected at the end before she was killed. She said this:
”No one is truly beautiful until they learn to love unselfishly. And those who receive such love are the richest people of all.”

Aww. Pity she didn’t get her happily ever after with Scooter but still you go girl. Proud of how you didn’t forget your roots ((:

P.S. Season 1 was way way way better. Won’t give spoilers here but with Lucy Liu you know it’s good haha