The Woman Before Me (2026 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Tayler Hamilton, Phillip Andre Botello
Director: Ian Niles
Writer(s): TBA
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When Zoe wakes up to find her husband murdered beside her in bed with no memory of anyone entering their home, she becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must uncover the real killer and stop them before they finish what they started.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
A businesswoman with insane hair extensions and work fit talks frantically on the phone to Caroline before dropping papers and meeting her untimely demise. Before she is offed, she asks her killer if this is about “Lena.”
Cut to a new couple, Jenna and Grant, moving into town for his job. Grant has an unhealthy relationship with his boss, Matt, and worries he is going to mess up his promotion. At a work dinner, Matt’s wife confuses Jenna for whoever Lena is, and her husband tells her to lay off the “vino.” We learn that Matt and Grant are working on a case in the best interests of the big corporation. This doesn’t sit right with Jenna, who runs a small baking business. They get into a drop-dead drag-out fight at the dinner table. IT IS GREAT!
Grant doesn’t think so and begs his wife to apologize. Jenna reluctantly agrees before asking how scarce she can be, and she compromises that Grant will do the dishes for life. On their way, our Matt’s wife calls Jenna “Lena” again. She apologizes because she swears Jenna looks exactly like his DEAD EX-WIFE. The one he didn’t tell his current new alive wife.
Jena is understandably upset. They just moved in together, and Jenna is discovering Lena. Grant says he kept it from her because it is too painful to talk about, and he deleted all her pictures so Jenna can’t even see if they do look alike.
Meanwhile, Matt’s wife goes home, pours some wine, and dances around drunkenly. Someone throws her down and kills her.
The next day, Jenna and Grant are still fighting, but they both go to work. Jenna’s small business is expanding to 600 stores, and her business partner wants to change the name from her grandfather’s to his. Jenna gets a call telling her she is “barking up a dangerous tree.” She should stop looking into Lena and Grant’s previous marriage. When she calls Grant to tell him, she shows no concern at all. There is also a 30K piano delivered from an anonymous
Jenna’s parents arrive, and they are in a completely different movie. Overacting, nonsensical dialogue, and goofy music. The one goes back to Lifetime when a detective shows up and wants an alibi for Grant for the night of Matt’s wife’s murder. Jenna can’t give one because they are sleeping in different beds.
While Jenna and her mother go out for a hike, she comes clean about receiving a death threat. They come home to find the piano deliveryman lurking around the house, taking measurements. They kick him out, and they think the deliveryman killed her dad, but he just ate too many jelly donuts and passed out. Cue goofy music. (Seriously. WTF.)
Caroline, who was on the phone with the messy businesswoman, is at Matt’s wife’s funeral and confirms that Jenna looks just like Lena. She gives Jenna her card. While everyone is distracted by Grant playing a keyboard like it is a baby grand piano, Jenna sees a photo of Lena, and they look exactly alike. Jenna breaks up with Grant and kicks him out of the house.
The detective questions Grant and is convinced that he killed Lena, Bridget, and Rini. An accent comes out of nowhere here during the interrogation, and I love that this Detective is pulled right out of Law and Order: The Musical. She is so over-the-top in the most fab way. Grant explains that Jenna and Lena are long-lost twins. He intentionally replaced Lena with Jenna.
Caroline calls Matt, and he tells her that she is ‘Barking up a dangerous tree, one that could fall on you.” She is the next to go.
Jenna’s parents tell her that she has a long-lost twin, and he dad screams, “MY SWIMMERS DON’T SWIM!” They claim they did not know until later and thought it was best to keep it from her. She kicks them out. Jenna angrily smashes her wedding photo and finds a hidden camera in the frame. It is one of eight that the Detective finds.
The Detective traces the feed to Matt’s house and searches it with probable cause. Then she finds Matt is dead too! That takes the kill count to FIVE. The killer sneaks behind the Detective and kills her? THAT IS SIX.
The piano delivery guy is back, this time without glasses, and he pretends to be the chief of police to get into the house. Jenna lets him in, and the man immediately acts insane. He was Grant’s piano teacher and did whatever it took to ensure Grant would stop being a lawyer and return to playing the piano.
The piano man goes through his villain monologue to a tied-up Jenna. He talks about Beetovan and Bach, his perfect pitch, and how he is framing Matt for the murders. Jenna distracts him, tells him she is a better player, and asks him to untie her. He does, and she stabs him with a pitchfork.
Two months later, Jenna moves out to Chicago. She will name her Cookie shop after her sister Lena and her grandpa, Wendelle. Grant is still MIA, and their wedding is annulled.
STRAY Thought
Is Andy Cohen a producer on this?
The tone of this movie was so inconsistent and weird. I LOVED it.
I appreciate how sassy Jenna is throughout the movie.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 (7
knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Lifetime Tropes: Twins? Check. Over-the-top family antics? Check. Identity crises? Check!
Should you watch it?
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