Lila (Ciarra Carter) has just broken up with her boyfriend and desperately needs a new job to take her mind off of things.  Luckily, her friend Robin (Vivica A. Fox) comes to the rescue.  Robin not only tells off Lila’s ex but she also gives Lila a job.  At work, Lila meets Mark (Matthew Pohlkamp).  One one night stand later, Lila is pregnant and moving into Mark’s surprisingly large house.  (It’s a David DeCoteau film.  All of the houses are surprisingly large.) Mark’s ex-wife, Julia (Jamie Bernadette), shows up and is surprisingly helpful.  Meanwhile, it seems like everyone who questions Mark’s motives either disappears or is discovered dead.  Is it all a coincidence or should Lila be worried?

Oh, you just have to love the Wrong films.  A lot has changed over the past few years and Lifetime’s programming and movies have changed as well.  Whether they’ve changed for the better or for the worse depends on how you look at things and what you prioritize.  For someone like me, who detests change and wishes that time could be frozen for just a few years or so, it can be difficult to accept that it’s not the 2010s anymore.  But the Wrong films have remained consistent for ten years.  David DeCoteau directs.  Handsome men of a certain age are not to be trusted.  Everyone lives in a big house that there’s no way they would be able to afford in real life.  The melodrama is embraced.  The violence is often bloodless.  The main character is usually a woman who really should know better.  Vivica A. Fox plays the no-nonsense authority figure who, in most cases, says the film’s title.

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Vivica A. Fox to these films.  Along with serving as an executive producer, she also serves as the voice of reason.  That she is usually as frustrated with the characters as the viewers is a very important thing.  Watching these films, it’s easy to wish that you could step into Vivica’s stylish and expensive shoes and say, “Girl, looks like you hired The Wrong Landscaper.”  Or, “Girl, looks you paid The Wrong Bill.  The lights are going to be off for a while.”  The secret is the way that Vivica delivers the line.  When Vivica says that someone was “the wrong whatever,” she leaves with you with little doubt that there’s no point in arguing.  Vivica knows wrong when she sees it and you don’t.

As for 2026’s The Wrong Baby Daddy, it has one of the best titles but it’s also actually a bit mild when compared to some of the other Wrong films.  It goes through the motions without ever going as gloriously over-the-top as some of the other installments in the series.  That said, it’s still a fun movie.  At this point, the familiarity of the plot is kind of the point.  The Wrong films are comfort food for the soul.  It doesn’t matter how bad of a day you’ve had or how negatives the news may be.  If hearing Vivica A. Fox call someone “the wrong baby daddy” doesn’t bring some light to your life, you have no soul.