We all know Lifetime. For some of us it's like watching The Comedy Channel. The formula is always the same: young, attractive people you've never seen before in one of the two or three plots Lifetime uses.This one, The Good Mistress from 2014 is one of the pack. Sandy Cooper (Anne Heise), a recovering alcoholic on five years probation, who has a beautiful figure and beautiful hair, moves to a small town and takes a job at her best friend's (Kendra Anderson) law firm. She meets a guy (Antonio Cupo) right away and sleeps with him on the first date (if you don't count him running into her at the coffee place a date).Just one small problem, which she finds out later. Her best friend is married to him. It gets worse. Okay. First of all, why she would take an apartment with that sleaze landlord is beyond me. Second, she meets her best friend's husband who asks her out on a date? Sing one verse of "Small World, Isn't It." And of course there is the ubiquitous parking garage scene. We all know how women like to go into them alone.At the last minute something elevates this film from a D to a C-. And for Lifetime, that's not bad.

This was pitiful. A suspense thriller riddled with bad acting, bad script, unbelievable scenarios and an over-the-top climax. Sandy, a woman haunted by her tragic past and lingering demons moves to a new town where she runs into and old friend who helps her get back on her feet by finding her a job and a good place to stay. She (Sandy) meets a mysterious man with whom she has a brief but intense relationship and soon after finds out that this man is actually her friend Karen's husband. Things in town begin to go awry when another woman linked to Karen's husband turns up dead and Sandy begins to suspect that her ex-lover might be a serial killer. The film's only saving grace is its attractive cast and maybe the fact that it was a made-for-television fête which hopefully kept the budget low.

This is an utterly undistinguished Lifetime movie, the same one you've seen many many times if you watch Lifetime. The actors are uninteresting, the direction is pedestrian and the writing is bland and amateurish. This movie could be the template from which all Lifetime movies are made. The relatively high rating is almost certainly due to one or both of two things: either some reviewers were associated with the production, and/or some were impressed with the twist which was truly unexpected. The question is: was the movie good enough to make the twist worth watching the film? I say NO. You will find the film tedious in the extreme, you will not expect the ending, and you will still regret having watched this howler.

This movie totally sucked and there was no plot. there was a bad acting job. where did they come up with the storyline? the storyline was totally awful, and the wife committed all the crimes? Who would believe that? and who would make the husband the fall guy for all of the problems? That is just totally awful. To make everyone believe that you didn't know anything and that you act like nothing is wrong when in reality you know about your own husband's affairs. No wife would ever do anything terrible such as this. Save your time and don't watch this movie, this is a bunch of crap. This movie should not even be put on DVD, and if you thought safe haven was so bad this is worse than Safe Haven. this so cliché, the same storyline over and over? oh get a new theme people, like the wife don't know anything? get a new storyline people.