Footballer's Wives - Season 2

footballers wive$ (2002)

Directors: Various

Starring: Zoe Lucker, Alison Newman, Gary Lucy, Susie Amy, and Cristian Solimeno

Description: Married to the stars of the Earls Park soccer team, Tanya, Chardonnay and Donna are provided with everything money and fame can buy. They should be enjoying their lavish lifestyle of couture fashion and champagne on ice. However, maintaining their husbands' celebrity status isn't easy. If their darkest secrets become public scandals, it could destroy everything. Set in the flashy, trashy world of sex, drugs and soccer stardom, Footballers Wives is guaranteed to keep you hooked from start to finish.

Review: If you think the first season was outrageous, just wait till you see this one. The crazy storylines get even carzier (if that's possible) with this second season. There are some real surprises in store for your favorite footballers. The creators of the show definitely kept up the feel of the first season. The show just gets better and better. A definite must see.

Score: 5 out of 5

The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl (2000)

Director: James Ivory

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Anjelica Houston, Nick Nolte, Jeremy Northam, and Uma Thurman

Description: Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep it secret from Maggie that they know each other, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?

Review: This is the first time I've seen the movie from beginning to end. Now that I've seen the whole thing, I really like it more. I really dislike the character of Amerigo. He just seems like such scum. I feel bad for his wife, Maggie. This Merchant/Ivory production is somewhat different, to me, than their other productions. It just had a different feel. I did like how they shot the footage at the end to look like it was archival images. The acting was done well and overall I liked the movie.

Score: 3.5 out of 5

Book Connection: The favorable case asserts that the novel is a superb dramatization of the stresses inherent in any marriage and the sometimes circuitous methods required to overcome them. James' presentation of Maggie's subdued but desperate struggle is much admired for its insight and precision. The dialogue is often brilliant in its delicate indirection, and many scenes are realized with the full impact of James' most mature technique.

The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)

Footballer's Wives - Season 1

footballers wive$ (2002)

Directors: Various

Starring: Zoe Lucker, Alison Newman, Gary Lucy, Susie Amy, and Cristian Solimeno

Description: Married to the stars of the Earls Park soccer team, Tanya, Chardonnay and Donna are provided with everything money and fame can buy. They should be enjoying their lavish lifestyle of couture fashion and champagne on ice. However, maintaining their husbands' celebrity status isn't easy. If their darkest secrets become public scandals, it could destroy everything. Set in the flashy, trashy world of sex, drugs and soccer stardom, Footballers Wives is guaranteed to keep you hooked from start to finish.

Review: How I missed this show is beyond me. From crazy storylines to outlandish acting, this show has it all. The first seasons focuses on three couples and how they deal with the fame and lifestyle of being footballers and footballer's wives. This show is just great fun. True it is very adult content, but I just love it. I think if you want to have fun while watching television you need watch this show.

Score: 5 out of 5