Can we NEVER Escape Motherhood, or Way to Disappoint, Lifetime

I need to stop expecting Lifetime movies to entertain me. They are among a slew of indulgences I commit when sad/feeling bad about life.  My niece died this week, so I’ve been indulging in quite a bit of Judge Mathis, shitty Lifetime movies and cookies.

Around 2 AM this morning, I thought I was in for a pleasant surprise from Lifetime.  The movie was called “One Hot Summer” and is about a Latina woman (Vanessa Marcil – an ACTUAL LATINA for once) who had just made partner in a law firm (at age 34!!) and was happily married to another Latino, also a lawyer.  Of course, her ex comes back into the picture because its Lifetime, but I was loving this movie because she was adamant against having children until she was ready to take some time off of work (and she says she wants to experience being a partner in a law firm on her own time, not her husband’s).  Her husband kept pressuring her throughout the movie, and she engages in a brief affair with her ex (ALSO a successful lawyer, though not Hispanic). I also was infatuated because she was representing a Cuban family (pro bono) who were contesting the Wet Foot/Dry Foot legislation which was allowing their son to remain in America but not them.

This movie had SO many things going for it – 3 close Latina women who were friends, managed to have a conversation about something OTHER than the men in their lives (including facing their internalized discrimination against “ethnic looking Cubanas” and choosing single motherhood), political commentary about immigration policy, etc etc.

Then, the ending FUCKING SHOCKED ME.

Vanessa Marcil learns she is 6 weeks pregnant and confronts her pharmacist about her pills.  He says something strange which leads her to question her husband, who admits to conspiring with Marcil’s mother to replace her birth control pills with placebos.  You know what she does?? Instead of divorcing his ass and suing the shit out of him (and not even CONSIDERING an abortion), she instantly forgives him (possibly because of the guilt over the affair), ends her affair, and FORGIVES HER MOTHER.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.  Anyone who sabotages my birth control for ANY REASON when I have EXPLICITLY STATED I am not ready for a child is NO FAMILY OF MINE.  She even says at her baby’s baptism “Mom I understand why you did what you did because I’m a mother now.”  Are you kidding me?

I’m just wrecked from seeing that movie.  I might be done with Lifetime forever.

Any thoughts?