On Tuesday night, as the temperature outside plunged down to 13 degrees and the ice continued to build up on the street outside, I watched Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict on the Lifetime Movie Network.
Why Was I Watching It?
Uhmmm…hello? Check out the title.
What Was It About?
This is one of those movies that starts with “Based on a True Story” and then continues on with “Some names and details have been changed.” So, in other words, this is all true except for the parts that are false. (Actually, this film is based on a memoir by Sue Silverman.)
Sally Pressman stars as Sue Silverman. Sue is a writer. While she battles writer’s block, her husband spends his time going to work and then coming home and whining about it. Apparently, every day, he comes home, refuses to have sex, and says something like, “You could get a job…” Or, hey, buddy — here’s what you could do: adjust your bra and stop crying like a little bitch. Seriously.
(Frequently asked question: When is the right time to call a man bitch? Any time he starts acting like one.)
Anyway, Sue responds to this by going out and sleeping with every man in Canada with the exception of her husband and who can blame her when you consider that her husband is a little bitch.
Soon, Sue is undressing whenever she find herself alone with a man — any man. Her obsession with sex soon brings an end to her marriage and eventually Sue is forced to go through one of those pain-in-the-ass interventions where everyone sits around and goes, “You’re addiction has harmed me in the following ways: 1) you borrowed money to spend on lingerie and you have yet to pay me back, 2) you missed my birthday party, 3) you fucked my husband…”
So, poor Sue ends up at the rehab place where the whole thing is like tough love and all “You will obey these rules or we’ll kick you out. So there!” Among the many rules: “No masturbation, no lingerie, no smoking, no avoiding eating, no throwing up…” Uhm, fascist much?
(And also, what type of man leaves his wife because she wants to have sex? Seriously, what a toadsucker.)
What Worked?
Oh, it all worked. This was pure Lifetime Movie goodness in that it took a whole lot of serious issues and then presented them in such a way that made it impossible to take any of it seriously. Ominous music, over-the-top dramatic line readings, and finally, a therapist who says exactly the right thing and magically makes all of the problems disappear.
Plus, I love that title.
What Didn’t Work?
Technically, the acting was pretty bad (with the exception of Sally Pressman) and the film dragged once Sue got into therapy. But who cares? Just check out that title.
“Oh my God! Just like me!” Moments
Towards the end of the film, Sue says that knowing she was desired was occasionally the only thing that she could cling to, the only thing that allowed her to maintain her fragile sense of identity. I’ve been there. Who hasn’t?
I also share Sue’s obsession with black underwear. Seriously, you can’t look bad in black lingerie.
Lessons Learned
Some men, apparently, actually do say “Not tonight, I’m tired” when it comes to sex. I’m still having a hard time buying that one.
Rehab is not fun.
Through the Shattered Lens 
I will have to say that I, too, am having a hard time with the lesson learned section. I think no man should ever say those four words ever. I mean…come on!
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You know what? People who vote thumbs down but don’t have the guts to leave a comment explaining what their problem is, theese people are worthless members of the mainstream. You can vote anonymously but you can’t stand up and openly state your opinion. You should be ashamed of yourself for wasting oxygen that could be better used by misunderstood, asthmatic redheads.
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Yeah, some of my hottie posts have actually gotten thumbs down votes. I mean come on! Even you like my hotties!
I think someone was googling for stuff on sex addicts, saw the title of your post read it and didn’t see what he was looking for. That or they were ultraconservative, Westboro Googlers.
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lol, just looking at our stats, under search terms, discovered someone was searching for “Lisa Marie Bowman sex addict.” Maybe it was Fred Phelps looking for some boob pics.
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LOL, I’m actually quite surprised we don’t have that many thumbs down. Though My review of A History of Violence and Avatar definitely got the most down votes. I think with the former it was one guy who saw the link to the review on imdb and vehemently disagreed with it. 😀
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I know, you like really pissed someone off with that review. lol. I believe that was the guy who was disguising his I.P. address and kept coming back to the site to vote like over and over and over again. What a lew-ZER with a capital L. 🙂
I’m surprised we don’t get more thumbs down since half the time, I’m specifically trying to annoy a certain type of reader. 🙂 For instance, I thought I’d get a lot more angry people with my whole “I hate Avatar” post but I only got one thumbs down. Though I think if I had written that during the week Avatar was first released, I would have gotten a lot more. 🙂
What’s funny is that, the few instances I actually have had someone leaving angry comments, it’s always been because of some little silly “throw-away” comment that usually has next to nothing to do with my actual review. Like that idiot who got all grouchy because of some comment I made about disliking a Levi’s commercial. smh. But then I’m all like, “Every movie you love sucks!” and everyone’s just like, “Okay, cool.” lol.
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Hell, it doesn’t even involve one of your reviews. Remember Vermont lady. 😛
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OMG, Vermont lady! She really ticked me off because I went through all the trouble to insult her in another post and as far as I can tell, she’s never come back to read it. I should like take her e-mail address and use it to sign up for an EHarmony account.
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Whoever it was probably got his hopes up when he saw the combination of “Secrets of a Sex Addict” and “Just Like Me Moment.” 🙂
Here, I gave you a thumbs up to cancel out the thumbs down. 🙂
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lol, I understand it now. It’s my fault for being such a tease with my section headings. 🙂
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