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As this episode reached its crescendo I was kind of scratching my head... ghosts haunting her, people that died because they couldn't get the medical care they needed because malpractice lawsuits were driving up the price of procedures.

This premise is so off the wall to me. This show is usually so universal about the gotchas, but this one seemed like it was based on a fantastical grievance from AM radio.

It was funny to see today, because I feel that this general attitude of hating / not trusting lawyers is an extinct sentiment in culture now. Maybe not extinct, people still dunk on high profile attorneys. But comedians are surely no longer doing entire "Attorneys, am I right?" sets.

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Typical brooding VC Andrews melodrama - this time without the incest, but we still get the claustrophobic horror of secrets kept among family trapped in close quarters. Or an attempt at it, at least.

It's tawdry, sensational, over the top, yet still has a sort of chill you won't understand unless you have seen one of these movies or read the books.

The actors have a hard time keeping up with the ridiculous creepitude of the material, with a few "what am I watching?" laugh out loud moments. But not quite enough oomph to make it a proper trashterpiece.

This adaptation shies away from some of the mind control and chronic illness themes of the book, only making mere allusions, but there was still enough perverse female fantasy here to keep me interested.

In a nutshell, it's daddy's little girl horror. It's like an evolved SVU episode if it got a proper gothic treatment, and nobody ever called the cops.

Lifetime has many VC Andrews adaptations, I have spent the month watching them all and this is one of the must-sees, but be prepared for a little bit of snoozing. Very high stakes soap opera shenanigans without the snail's pace of that formula and with some very welcome twists.

You can watch it for free on demand, on Lifetime's website.

>The Rev. Jerry Falwell said a quick prayer, closed his eyes and took a fully clothed plunge down the 60-foot water slide at the PTL's amusement park in celebration of a successful $22 million fund-raising campaign.

>The 245-pound Falwell, traveling about 40 mph, hurtled feet-first into the waist-deep pool with a mountainous splash Thursday and came up sputtering about television coverage of his soggy slide and the arrival of Pope John Paul II.

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Self portrait of the artist cast in his own frozen blood drawn over the course of a year. This piece is housed at The National Portrait Gallery in London. It is one in a series that Quinn began in 1991.

Grace was a member of the Westboro Baptist Church until leaving in 2012

• photo by Maxim Ryazansky - source
• article about the event - originally from Decision Magazine
• Westboro Baptist Church - Wikipedia