Why Women Kill

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Television series
German title Why Women Kill
Original title Why Women Kill
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) since 2019
Production
company		 Imagine Television Studios,
CBS Television Studios
length 45 minutes
Episodes 10 in 1 season ( list )
genre Dramedy
Theme music LOVE - Michael Feinstein
idea Marc Cherry
production Anna Culp
music Mateo Messina
camera Michael A. Price
First broadcast August 15, 2019 (USA) on CBS All Access

First publication in German		 January 15, 2020 on TVNOW
occupation
synchronization

Why Women Kill ( English for "Why Women Kill") is an American dramedy - television series by Marc Cherry , who since August 2019 by the US video-on-demand Service CBS All Access is published and since January 15, 2020 and is available in Germany on TVNOW .

A second season was ordered while the first season was being broadcast.

action

  • 1963: After the death of their daughter, the Stantons move into a new house in Pasadena . Beth Ann, always trying to find a good wife, blames herself for her daughter's death. She tells the neighbor Sheila that she accidentally left the gate to the street open, so that the girl was run over while running after a ball. After Beth discovers that her husband Rob is cheating on her with the waitress April, she meets his lover and becomes friends with her. Beth finds out her husband's longings from April and now tries, for her part, to please Rob. Beth also finds a new friend in the neighbor Mary, who is abused by her chronically jealous husband Ralph. When April becomes pregnant by Rob, Beth decides to leave her husband. When she visits him in the office, there is a conversation with Rob's secretary. She admits that she also had a relationship with Rob. She also admits that after a shepherd's hour with Rob, while fleeing from Beth, she opened the gate of the property through which Beth's daughter could run into the street. When Beth realizes that Rob knew about this, she contacts Mary. Mary prepares a letter to Ralph pretending to break up with him because of a relationship with Rob. When her husband reads the letter, he takes his revolver , goes angrily to the Stantons' house and shoots Rob.
  • 1974: Beth sells the house to Simone, with a young girl by her side. Beth says she is moving to her friend April in New York .
  • 1984: After Simone found out about her husband Karl's homosexuality , she began a relationship with Tommy, the son of her best friend Naomi Harte. With Simone, Karl tries to maintain the appearance of a perfect marriage to friends and neighbors. When Simone's daughter Amy, recently separated from her fiancé Brad, comes to visit, she also tries to hook up with Tommy. Simone can prevent this and supports Amy's and Bard's reconciliation. At a dinner with Brad's family, Simone meets Hector, her former hairdresser and her husband's lover. When Naomi learns of the relationship between Tommy and Simone, the friendship is not only broken, but Simone is also attempted to murder. By chance Simone learns that Karl is sick with AIDS . When she realizes the terrible course of the disease in Karl's friends, she decides to stay with him. She no longer hides her relationship with Tommy and ends it when Tommy leaves town to start studying art. When Karl is severely weakened by the illness, Simone helps her husband to die .
  • In 2017, Simone, now in a wheelchair , sold the house to the Harding couple. Taylor and her husband Eli admire Simone's commitment to the AIDS foundation she founded. They also admire the paintings by the popular artist Thomas Harte from Simone's possession.
  • 2019: Bisexual lawyer Taylor and writer Eli have an open marriage. When Taylor's lover Jade is threatened by her ex-boyfriend Duke, Taylor lets them move into their apartment. Eli, who initially objected, suddenly finds himself ensnared by both women. Nevertheless, there is a certain jealousy . When Duke runs into the trio by chance, he tries in vain to persuade Jade to return to him. Jade enabled Eli to build on his past professional successes, but fell back into his drug addiction . After Taylor learns that Jade and Eli sleep together even without their presence, the two women become increasingly estranged. Through Duke Taylor learns that it is not he who is violent, but Jade, who is also wanted by the police. Although Taylor throws her acquaintance out of the house, Jade comes back and injures Eli with a kitchen knife. In the fight with Taylor, however, she is defeated and is stabbed by her former lover.
  • Epilogue: Taylor and Eli sell the house to a young couple, and when it is handed over, Eli admires the new owner's rifle collection. As Taylor and Eli say goodbye to the man at the door, his wife sees a text message from his apparent lover with clear content on her husband's cell phone. With one of the rifles she waits for her husband to return.

background

The series takes place in parallel on three different time levels but in the same place. The main actor's house serves as a connecting element. In the last episode, the events overlap, the actors move through the three time levels simultaneously in the finale.

A second season has already been commissioned.

reception

Moviepilot praised Lucy Liu's “brilliantly biting” portrayal and dubbed the show “one of the best series of the past year”.

The films.de portal praised the "authentic equipment including costumes and hairstyles" and called the series a "sensational insider tip for fans of very bad humor (...) that you simply have to see".

Julia Bähr drew a positive résumé in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and ran the headline “sheer hatred rarely looked so elegant”.

Episode list

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First published in the USA German language first publication (D) Director script
1 1 The kiss of the blonde waitress Murder Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry 15th Aug 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Marc Webb Marc Cherry
2 2 You can again? I'd Like to Kill Ya, But I Just Washed My Hair 22 Aug 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Marc Webb Austin Guzman
3 3 Threesome with jade I Killed Everyone He Did, But Backwards and in High Heels 29 Aug 2019 Jan 15, 2020 David Grossman Randi Mayem Singer
4th 4th Stoned under the table You Had Me at Homicide 5th Sep 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Valerie Weiss Greg Malins
5 5 Adultery and Kindergarten There's No Crying in Murder Sep 12 2019 Jan 15, 2020 David Grossman Jeff Strauss & Brendan Stephan
6th 6th Quickie with Hector Practically Lethal in Every Way 19 Sep 2019 Jan 15, 2020 David Warren Joe Keenan
7th 7th Coke in the trunk I Found Out What the Secret to Murder Is: Friends. Best friends. 26 Sep 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum Hannah Schneider
8th 8th Simone on the thigh Marriages Don't Break Up on Account of Murder -
It's Just a Symptom That Something Else Is Wrong		 3rd Oct 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Lucy Liu Alexa boy
9 9 The woman in our bed I Was Just Wondering What Makes Dames Like You So Deadly Oct 10, 2019 Jan 15, 2020 Dawn Wilkinson Mary Elizabeth Hamilton
10 10 The last tango Kill Me as if It Were the Last Time 17th Oct 2019 Jan 15, 2020 David Warren Marc Cherry & Curtis Kheel

synchronization

The German synchronization occurs after the dialogue books by Rebecca Balogh and the dialogue director of Frank Glaubrecht in Berlin Cinephon .

role actor Voice actor
Simone Grove Lucy Liu Melanie Hinze
Beth Ann Stanton Ginnifer Goodwin Tanja Schmitz
Taylor Harding Kirby Howell-Baptiste Anne Helm
jade Alexandra Daddario Esra Vural
Karl Grove Jack Davenport Thomas Schmuckert
Tommy Harte Leo Howard Henning Nöhren
Abby Abbie Cobb Dina Kürten
Amy Grove Li Jun Li Daniela Molina

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Why Women kill : Second season ordered , odds meter , October 17, 2019, accessed March 31, 2020
  2. ↑ Why Women Kill is the new Desperate Housewives , Max Wieseler on moviepilot , January 17, 2020
  3. ↑ Why Women Kill: Season 1 - Streaming Review , Pierre Schulte on Films.de , accessed March 31, 2020
  4. ↑ I want to see you suffer , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed March 31, 2020
  5. ^ A b Why Women Kill. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 31, 2020 .