Murder at the Merriweather(2026 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Haley Lohrli, Taylor Anne Danehower, James Chrosniak
Director: Danny J. Boyle
Writer(s): Alyssa Kramer, Troup Wood
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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
The movie stars at a manison/hotel and the help. Dasha is the maid. Rena and Sophie are best friends who work in the spa and get sexually harassed by their boss, Alec.
Guests arrive for a wedding, and a guy named Sam, who looks like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast after he turns into human form. He went to high school with Sophie and has a past with Rena. Sam invites the girls to party in his hotel room, which seems like a basic conflict of interest. Don’t fraternize with guests.
Sophie wakes up the next morning after she passed out in the hotel hallway with a cut on her arm and Rena nowhere in sight. Well, they find her pretty quickly, she fell off a balcony and died! Sophie doesn’t remember anything, the police don’t seem to care, and neither do the wedding guests or Sophie’s boss. The wedding is still on, and Alec tells Sophie she is still expected to work it. (WTF, I’d be so out of there.)
Kelly, the bride, arrives and is sad to hear about Rena’s death and everything, but is even more upset that her room isn’t ready. Then Sam’s creepy brother and father ask Sohpie for things for the wedding. It is actually pissing me off that no one cares about Rena dying. It is super messed up.
Kelly and Sophie team up to figure out what happened. They hack into the security system’s cameras and don’t find anything except footage of Rena falling. Detectives tell them that Rena was depressed and struggling with her mental health, but Sophie says that is a lie. The Sheriff closes his investigation at the request of the very wealthy family.
Inexplicably, Sam and Kelly are still planning their wedding details. Like they haven’t picked a cake, seating arrangements, or flowers?!!? Sam’s mother is particularly awful, undercutting Kelly’s decisions and fatshaming… in 2026!
Memories come flashing back to Sophie. She finds Rena’s phone and a broken lightbulb in Sam’s room. She confronts him after Sam finds her under his bed, and he just moves on as if she were snooping through his room!!! Kelly finds out that Rena and Sam spent a late-night room service party the night she died. She worried she could be marrying a murderer. Kelly quickly talks herself out of it and reasons that Alex had a motive to kill Rena because she was going to report his sexual harassment.
Alec fires Sophie for snooping around the hotel. He is going to be REALLY short-staffed for this wedding now. Of course, Sophie doesn’t leave and just keeps snooping around and making unauthorized hotel keys. Sam’s older brother has footage from the night of Rena’s death, and it shows Sophie fighting with her BFF. Did she kill her best friend?
Dasha, the maid, says she saw something and sets up a meeting with Sophie. Kelly takes Sophie to the meeting place, and as Sophie waits alone, she is chloroformed and passes out. When she comes to, she is lying with Dasha’s dead body. The police arrest Sophie for both murders. There is a lot of evidence planted to make Sophie look guilty AF.
The police release Sophie after her toxicology report shows she was chloroformed. Sam picks Sophie up from jail and admits that she slept with Rena the night she died. Sophie gets out of the car and finds a doctor’s RX pad, which makes him look even guiltier than he already did.
Kelly tries on her wedding dress, and it is tragically ugly. Sophie looks at Kelly’s laptop, which also contains her text messages. Kelly killed Rena in a fit of jealousy.
The ladies struggle, and Kelly goes flying off the same balcony, but a table of flowers breaks her fall, and she is carted away by the police. The end.
STRAY Thought
If one more person says “Crystal” after “Do I make myself clear?” I’m going to scream.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪( 2 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷 (1 Glass of Wine)
Lifetime Tropes: High School friends, Cheating,
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