Secrets on Sorority Row 2021
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Michelle (Kristi McKamie) is excited for her daughter, Quinn (Kate Edmonds), to pledge the same sorority she and her best friend, Stacey (Lauren Buglioli), pledged when they were in college. She is especially happy when Quinn becomes friends with fellow sorority recruit, Lucy (Taylor Hanks). But when Michelle starts receiving anonymous threatening letters, she worries a dark secret she shares with Stacey has come to light: When Michelle and Stacey were in college, they forced one of their sorority’s members to drink an excessive amount of alcohol, causing her to fall to her death. Michelle and Stacey have upheld their pact to keep the incident a secret, but what they didn’t realize is the woman who died had a secret child. After a series of deadly events, Michelle learns Lucy is the woman’s daughter determined to avenge her mother’s death
Lifetime movies just get better and better! One of the best I’ve seen so far.
…than most Lifetime movies. But not by much.
Other reviewers here talk about the “double twist” ending. But please, if you didn’t know immediately who sent the threatening letters to the moms, you haven’t been paying attention to the Lifetime movie formulas. And you apparently didn’t know one of the primary rules of all movies (and mystery books, for that matter), which is that the bad guy is never someone who is not already known to us. It’s also not the character that is made to look guilty right away. That would be too easy, and not lend any supposed mystery to the story.
As soon as I saw the first letter, I knew who sent it. To me, it was painfully obvious. It could only have been that one person. For that matter, it was pretty much evident as soon as the person was introduced. There was no reason for that character to be in the film except to fulfill that role. Later on, the identity of that person is made even more obvious when another secret about the dead girl is revealed.
Even the final twist wasn’t totally unexpected; it was apparent something was up there all along (I’m purposely trying to be vague here because I don’t like writing reviews with spoilers).
So, the movie gets 5 stars for being a little bit better than most of these movies. But the usual quick, easy ending spoiled it, keeping it from getting a higher score from me. As did the identity of the bad guy being telegraphed about a half hour into the movie, if not earlier.
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