‘Why Women Kill’
The newest CBS All Access series comes from Marc Cherry, the writer behind the long-running hit Desperate Housewives — and it shows. Three more extremely desperate housewives show up in Why Women Kill, played by a so-brittle-she-might-break Ginnifer Goodwin, an over-the-top Lucy Liu, and the always excellent Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The twist this time is they live in the same house in three different decades, and all become — somehow — involved in the death of their significant others. Though the murder plot, to be frank, isn’t as twisty or as fun as the show thinks, and the characters are pretty much all arch archetypes, the cast makes the show watchable, including the titular women who kill, and their opposites, played by Sam Jaeger, Jack Davenport, and Reid Scott. Just, don’t get too invested in anyone because, you know: murder.