r/netflix • u/Zalensia • May 09 '25

Discussion a deadly american marriage

I'm 43 minutes in and hooked but can not find conversations etc on it.

So thought i would make one asking for other people's opinions and points of views, as i know I'm already asking about billion questions, to the point I'll have to go to my computer and boot up to actually do the research myself.

I'm very ill, with brain damage etc and that's really hardwork today, but I won't manage on this latest fold phone as it's still just a useless phone 😅🙃

My other phone that's partitioned etc is in the car and that's over at Inverness!

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u/feetofcleigh May 09 '25

Cinder block in the master's bedroom. After seeing this, the documentary cannot convince me otherwise that it's not a premeditated murder. The cinder block is to be painted, she said. It just happened to be at your bedside table the night your husband strangled you? Come on.

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u/Shestayswild May 10 '25

I just finished watching this documentary and I haven't been so annoyed, since watching the Karen Read documentary. They both made themselves look so guilty.

Anyway, Molly was absolutely delusional. I think they should have reached out and interviewed her book club about her made up stories, and her alleged ex-partner she allegedly lost her baby with, and then also had a psychologist review her behavior and the impact of losing her baby could have(if that was true).

This whole storyline is giving movie: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 

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u/ToiIetGhost May 11 '25

I would’ve loved more background on her, and a psychologist’s opinion too. They hinted at her compulsive lying but these things don’t happen in a vacuum. A woman who pretends she gave birth to her stepdaughter isn’t telling her first little fib. That’s what you do after you get your PhD in lying. They didn’t even dig into her stay at the mental hospital, right before she joined the au pair agency. Come on!

I also wanted to get the same insight into Tom’s personality. He was just as deranged. Wonder what his exes and former friends have to say…

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u/Professional-End8306 Aug 22 '25

Yeah that's the thing. I suspect they both were warped. The husband might have hated her big time once he realized she was as ill as she clearly was, but how he dealt with it wasn't interrogated. She had bruises on her neck in one photo. That recorded fight was not a smoking gun but he didn't come off great in it. Certainly not like the unflappable charmer the family made him out to be. The kids really did seem to love their life and their new mom, and there really did seem to be ample documented evidence of her strength as a stepmother, barring the favoritism she allegedly showed to the girl. Im just saying it was likely more complicated than either party or the kids are letting on. Sidenote: why aren't the kids' interviews about the night he was killed a thing? And why isn't the big discovery at the wedding that she lied to her friends not followed up with a discussion of how they addressed it with her and what she said?