| Kim
Basinger, Robert Culp, Steven Macht, John Rubinstein
Kim Basinger, who can sometimes look as expressive as
a mannequin, does an admirable job here as the fun loving Laury, a rich
girl who frequents the local hospital visiting her fiancé, Dr.
Max Heller (Steven Macht) and her best friend, Dr. Paul
Trenton (John Rubinstein). Laury’s perfect world
is shattered when she finds a note for Dr. Max from someone named Joy.
Laury heads over to Joy’s, only to find an empty house with a few
mementos of her love affair with Max. Undaunted, she confronts Steven
only to get a fairly reasonable excuse (well, reasonable in a MOTW meets
Soapdish kinda way), but Paul is determined to make this
bend in the road lead Laury all the way back to him. Partly because he’s
secretly in love with her and partly because his domineering mother is
desperate to see her son married to the daughter of the chairman of the
board of the hospital (oh, what a tangled web we weave…). And during
this flurry of subplots, Robert Culp appears out of nowhere
determined to find out exactly where Joy disappeared. You do remember
Joy, don’t you?
Amidst
all the betrayal, lies and intrigue, Killjoy is a sometimes
confusing, but indisputably fabulous mystery that throws everything in
the pot except the kitchen sink (including an appearance by the sultry
Ann Wedgeworth!). This is the kind of MOTW that attempts
to throw its audience into a tale-spin by every commercial break and succeeds.
Well crafted in a noir-ish style, where everyone has a secret or two and
the one-liners fly by faster than Janet Jackson’s
nipple at a Superbowl game, Killjoy is a must see for those of us in love
the more soapy days of TV. And let’s face it, you wouldn’t
be reading this if you weren’t. Yet another magnificent job by John
Llewellyn Moxey.
Recap
by Amanda By Night
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