5 New Dramas You Definitely Have To Watch

2. Why Women Kill

Played by Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Why Women Kill is an American dark comedy-drama web television series created by Marc Cherry. Set in multiple time periods, the series depicts the events leading to a murder that occurs after the respective husbands of three married women commit adultery.

Premise

Why Women Kill follows three women from different decades who are connected through having all lived in the same Pasadena mansion and experiencing infidelity in their marriages. Beth Ann Stanton remains content as a housewife in 1963 until she learns of her husband’s unfaithfulness, socialite Simone Grove discovers her third husband’s homosexuality and begins her own affair with a younger man in 1984, and although in an open marriage in 2019, attorney Taylor Harding finds her relationship tested when she and her husband become attracted to the same woman.

The infidelity in each marriage sets off a chain of events that ends with a woman taking the life of another.

You can catch Why Women Kill on HBO.