Main cast: Joan Severance (Jane Ambergris, Holly May), Ron Lea (Vic), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: René Bonnière

Watching shows from the 1980s and 1990s can be interesting, because sometimes I can spot folks that are bigger stars today showing up in unexpected places on those shows. Pierce Brosnan, Brad Pitt, and now, Carrie-Ann Moss. She’s credited as “Lookalike” on My Enemy, but these days, her name is far more recognizable than those of the folks getting the main billing here.

Holly May is a small town gal tired of how her man keeps lugging his parents along with him on everything, even during her birthday—the old folks even pick where they should eat, and Holly’s man doesn’t take it nicely when she snaps at him about how she doesn’t feel “special” when she’s with him.

Meanwhile, Jane Ambergris is a hot shot movie star that tires of her life. When her management organizes a lookalike contest (one of them being Ms Moss in a role that you’ll definitely overlook if you didn’t know she’s somewhere in the episode, heh), she gets an opportunity to get what she wants. You know what they say about getting what one wishes for.

Oh boy, this one. I suppose it is trying to be something more than a generic Lifetime thriller, by introducing some mind games and such, but it’s hard to care when the main characters are so bloody obnoxious to watch. I don’t know whether Joan Severance is just being horrible here, or she’s playing too well her roles that are written be horrible, but the end result is like watching a show that gives me a bad allergic reaction every three minutes.

All the cringe-filled drama, for a bizarre message encapsulated by Mr Hitchhiker as how a woman that wants too much ends up losing touch with her true self, or something like that.

I’m not sure if that would be the take home message I get from this episode, though. Jane is a whiny, petulant drama queen that just likes to be difficult on set. Holly May is tad more sympathetic, but she too is annoying every time she is on screen with all that overacting on Ms Severance’s part. Hence, my take home message from this episode is that high-maintenance drama queens are all cray cray, and it’s best to stay away from them as far as possible.