Main cast: Joanna Cassidy (Grace Wallace), Lisa Bronwyn Moore (Beth Stone), Nicholas Campbell (Robert Wallace), and Terence Stamp (The Host)
Director: George Mihalka

Hey, it’s the guy that played The Hitchhiker for three episodes before they replaced him with a guy with a much better rear end!

No, really. He bares his rear end here, and I can see that he has been neglecting his squats because I can iron my clothes on the absolute flatness of his bum. 

Anyway, looking far older than I recall, Nicholas Campbell plays Robert Wallace. No, not the poet, but rather, a fashion designer with a very jealous and vengeful wife that promises to rain violence and brimstone on him if he ever even looks at another woman.

Naturally, he just has to hook up with his brilliant assistant designer Beth, because it isn’t fun unless it’s dangerous and forbidden.

Thing is, Beth is crazily infatuated with him—emphasis on “crazily”—and his wife Grace is crazily jealous. This fellow is hopping from crazy to crazy, so it’s tough to see a happy ending for him here.

The bulk of The Other Woman is made up of the two women glowering at one other while Robert walks around acting like a commanding yet somewhat pretentious fellow. Well, he is a designer after all. 

During this time, the Lifetime movie feel is in full bloom. Whether it’s small touches such as Grace deliberately touching Robert’s face while making sure that Beth sees it to Beth’s voice-overs that show just how deep she is wading into Fatal Attraction territory, there is a catty, bitchy soap opera feel to the whole thing that encapsulates the trashy TV feel of the 1990s perfectly. 

Once again, this is another absurd episode with an unintentionally hilarious tone, whether it’s the flat arse of the lead male character to the over the top orgasm faces of the lead female characters. So there’s that, at least, as while nothing interesting happens for much of the episode, there is still plenty to point and chuckle at. 

Plus, the cheating husband and his floozy are pretty dumb. They, especially he, know that the wife is a violent, jealous creature that comes with her own firearm, so of course they decide to shag in the very spot that they can discovered by the wife in question. Gee, I wonder what will happen to them…

Yes, this is not a good episode, but if the whole “If we can’t impress you, we’d do things so dumb to make you laugh!” approach the show seems to have taken recently is deliberate, I heartily approve. I am amused, and sometimes, that’s good enough for me!