The movie focuses on a suburban family made up of mother, father, and son that has issues, to put it mildly. Kendra, the mom, has been flirting with the a younger man, who ends up dead. Her husband knows about her seeing him but so do other people and that's where the movie starts to get interesting. Who killed the guy and why? Definitely worth a watch and recommended! Jessica Morris as the mom does a good acting job!

This film had an intricately conceived narrative design in which nearly all of the characters were liars. At heart, they all seemed like decent people, but they were not communicating honestly among themselves. The result was outstanding dramatic tension leading to the surprise ending.

The action centers on Kendra Davis, who went out for drinks with Nick, her contractor. Nick was quite the charmer, and he was unusually busy with amorous connections to Kendra's best friend, Samantha, and another acquaintance, Heather.

It would be an understatement to say that the young son of Kendra and Peter is in the center of things. The kid is adept with technology, and he has been spying on his parents. He now finds himself enmeshed in adult problems.

When the contractor Nick is murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. Any one of the characters could be sleeping with the enemy. There was an effective build to the action that had a dynamic payoff. Even the shrewd detectives seemed stumped on the case. The locations, the acting, and, above all, the script were superb in this suspenseful yarn set in suburbia.

"Secret Lives of Housewives" doesn't fit the movie hardly at all, since there were only two characters who were messing around with the single guy before he was murdered, and neither of them were leads. The lead character stopped just before succumbing to an affair, so the "secret lives" part didn't really apply to her.

"The Making of a Serial Killer" would be the perfect title since that's what the ending consisted of: the parents covered up the murder and the killer by getting rid of the evidence instead of doing the right thing, which would've been to take the kid to the police and tell the truth, and then to a good therapist. And not surprisingly, the last scene showed him standing over his next victim (?) with a butcher knife.

Speaking of titles, Jessica Morris seems to be going for the title of "Actress Who's Been in More Lifetime Movies Than Any Other Actress". At least in this one - (what, her twentieth LMN part?) - she attempts to act, unlike the others she's been in.

It wasn't until Peter went to leave with the wrench that it finally hit me that the son was the murderer. But how long ago had he found it before finally attempting to get rid of it? Of course his wife had to wake up and catch him as he was leaving, which led to the climax...

Also, the son was too smart to have been so careless with his victim's cell phone as to forget it was in his dirty laundry. But at least it gave the audience the rare chance to see Morris' character actually do something she never does in Lifetime movies: housework.

Grade D / 3 out of 10.