Compelling and powerful sequel. Betty Broderick(Meredith Baxter)is behind bars waiting for her second trial; the first ended in a hung jury. Killing her ex-husband, a powerful San Diego lawyer, and his pretty new wife just doesn't satisfy the proud, spoiled and narcissistic woman trying to avoid embarrassment. This is like looking at a horrific accident...you can't help but watch this woman unravel in her own confusion. This story focuses on the court battle between the assistant D.A. Kerry Wells(Judith Ivey)and Broderick's next attorney in line Jack Earley(Ray Baker); one of many she hasn't fired yet. Betty still believing the world revolves around her and her wishes. Her children and friends appear in court only to show how erratic and confused she is in striving for freedom and the justice she feels is owed to her. The original director Dick Lowry returns as well as most of the cast of A WOMAN SCORNED. Ivey is outstanding; but Baxter is just exceptional and memorable. Other players include: Kelli Williams, Ralph Bruneau, Christine Jansen, Joan McMurtrey, Stephen Root, Clayton Landey and Aaron Freeman.

Meredith Baxter miraculously makes us feel some sympathy for the spoiled former wife of attorney Daniel Broderick even in this sequel to the original television film. Betty is now in prison for murdering her husband and his new wife in their bedroom. It's hard to feel sympathy for a woman who was getting $16,000 a month in alimony and living in a million-dollar home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Regardless, Betty was determined to win the divorce even if it meant killing Dan and his wife and going to prison for the crimes. She wasn't going to be embarrassed but she did the same to her husband and her own family. Judith Ivey plays the prosecutor in the case. Kelli Williams returns as does Stephen Collins. I get the feeling that they had so much fun making the original that they returned to the sequel. Most of the original cast is back in the sequel.

This is definitely a great movie. I have seen this and the first one entitled "A Woman Scorned". This story interested people so much that they had to make a sequel. I think this movie is well made and acted.Spoilers Ahead Betty, was not just a woman scorned though. She was also a killer who went over to her exhusband and his wife Linda's house and broke in and shot them while they were sleeping. She then pulled the phone out of wall so Dan could not call for help. Then when Betty is still in the county jail awaiting her second trial she is disciplined for a scuffle that she had with an inmate earlier. But Betty won't coroparate so the guards have to carry her down to solitary. I saw the real-life incident on TV and the funny thing about it was that they showed her in her green panties. Which teaches a good lesson that if she would have just kept her mouth shut and did what she was told instead of fighting and arguing then she would have spared herself the aggravation, embarrassment and trouble. She is a spoiled rotten brat who definitely needs to grow up.

She's a good TV actress, but women scorned seem to be her genre. I'd like to see her work in some better quality productions. She's the darling of Lifetime TV (that someone I know of calls the "Stayfree Channel"