Series Details & Credits
| CBS | CBS All Access | Paramount+ | Release Date: August 15, 2019 |
Summary:
Beth Ann, a 1960s housewife (Ginnifer Goodwin); Simone, a socialite in the '80s (Lucy Liu); and in 2019, lawyer Taylor (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) discover they each have been cheated on by their respective partners in the Marc Cherry dark comedy-drama.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama
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Positive:
11
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
Aug 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The tongue-in-cheek tone can be tricky. But beginning with the opening credits, which is set against the Frank Sinatra classic “L.O.V.E.” and pulpy comic book scenes, Why Women Kill gets the tone just right. Cherry knows how to make social commentary while making us laugh and take a discerning eye to our lives. The series is funny. ... And the stellar cast pulls it off.
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Aug 26, 2019
Season 1 Review:
“Why Women Kill” feels more comfortably familiar than recycled or old. There’s never a question of why we should care about any of these characters. Cherry and the performers make us care about all of their fates, even that of uptight, prissy Beth Ann and shallow, self-centered Simone. Goodwin and Liu may be camping up their performances, but they also take care to grant them enough humanity for the viewer to invest in what happens to each, or in what they do. Howell-Baptiste is also wonderful, although she purposefully makes Taylor harder to read than her co-stars’ women.
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Aug 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While Why Women Kill has nuanced leads, the show stumbles in its use of high camp. It’s a stylistic choice that adds levity but that allows the show—at least in the first two episodes made available to critics—to avoid interrogating the realities that drive its characters to take extreme measures.
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Aug 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Why Women Kill is akin to an overly complicated craft cocktail, boasting an intriguing brightness, namely in the form of Goodwin’s performance, but lacking balance in its competing flavors. It’s full of baffling tonal and narrative decisions that undermine what does work about the show.
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Jul 15, 2021
Wickedly entertaining! Sure it's a more of a guilty pleasure, it's not a high-brow TV show by any means, but oh boy it's so fun to watch! Lucy Liu's character and performance was such a delight!
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Sep 21, 2019
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Sep 16, 2019
Love this take on telling these types of stories with a rise of the criminal doco series its creative and fun
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Oct 7, 2019
Love this show! Ingenious the way they tie the three decades together with comparisons and big differences in woman’s rules through the years.
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