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Netflix 5: Lifetime Movies for Your Lazy Saturday

My love of the LMN genre is well documented on this site. There’s nothing like turning your brain down to 1 and watching a parade of marginally pretty people do really dumb things, or formerly famous actors tackle lurid true crime tales while you lump around on the couch. It’s easy. It’s comforting. It goes […]

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5 More TV Movies to Stream

Our love of Lifetime Movies is well-documented here on Persephone. One of the big losses of my new living abroad lifestyle was the loss of these cheesy, melodramatic, overwrought TV movies, which were a weekend staple at my house. It was to my delight that I discovered a virtual slew of old-school, based-on-a-true-story LMN movies […]

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This Lizzie Liveblog Took an Axe

And wrote witty comments, really fast. The live blog starts in five minutes, at 8PM, EST. Grab your favorite mixed drink, your best campy gifs, and your commenting A-game, and join us right here.

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We Can’t Wait For: Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic

Word of some remakes causes me to rend my garments and shake my balled fists at the sky in betrayal. Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic remake? Bring me all the box wine, the remote, and some powdered sugar doughnuts, please.

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What I Watched This Weekend: A Walkabout With The Family Slay

For your entertainment but not edification, we present to you, without commercial interruption, A Weekend With the Family Slay.

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Feminism

How Lifetime Movies Helped Form My Feminism

I love Lifetime movies. I’m not going to deny that, shameful as it might seem for a radical feminist such as myself. I grew up with these movies, spending hours laying in bed or lounging on the couch with a book and a Lifetime movie (I have never been able to just watch television). You […]

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William & Kate: Not My Kind of Lifetime Movie

Sometimes there’s nothing better than kicking back at the end of a long day and watching one of the ridiculous and convoluted movies that Lifetime is famous for. I usually just stick to watching Unsolved Mysteries and How I Met Your Mother re-runs on the channel