when i saw that mary louise parker be associate with this epic novel turn film and i be intrigue . be a fan of the book and i assume she would be play tony and roz and or chari and but more so and i be intrigue to see how they would turn this very head y and almost psychological ( but not psychological thriller ) novel in to a movie that would be accessible to those who hadn not read the novel and and that would be at least mildly satisfy for those who have . the book be a complex reflection of society and woman and and modern life and and i be interested to see how they use the 3 different narrative that lead to the unfolding of the story in a film . what they actually do be a crime . the big error and confusing issue be represent why would oxygen and a network that advertise a be for woman and take an amazing book about how complex and wonderful and and terrible woman be and can be and and change the protagonist from 3 woman to some dumb former cop with no real motive to be involve in the story . it seem like whoever adapt it take an easy way out by use this guy to straight up ask roz and tony and and charis about how they know zenia and in do that and they rush through bulk of the book . in do this though they muddy the story and cut everything that be great about the character in it and aside from make it so the audience have no one credible to associate with . in the film and these woman aren not people and they be character . in the book zenia do fake her death and but the book mention it to get this point across and while the film waste 30 45 minute focus on this former cop run around and do nothing of use . they try to make this complex book an episode of law and order or csi . it turn out that mary louise parker play zenia and which be so wrong . zenia be a catherine zeta jones and angelina jolie and or maybe even a scarlett johnasson type . she be a woman men can not not adore and and a woman that woman be intrigue and threaten by and but in a keep your enemy closer kind of way . and once she get close and she seem totally genuine and trust worthy and despite your good judgment . she the kind of woman who and even when she lose and she win represent she always still beautiful and still rich and and there be always still people out there who do not know her game . in the film and zenia do not take chari man ( the blonde american draft dodger who be use chari in the first place . ) but instead take august and try to become her legal guardian ( and apparently come back to be her lesbian lover a a lingering kiss at the coffee shop implies ) . and zenia do kill the chicken before leave with august and but it make no sense since all of the build up to it be remove . it be a if whoever write the screenplay be grasp at straw to satisfy those of u who read the book and but i think have i not read the book and i would have spend the whole movie confuse and if i have bother to stick with it at all . and roz husband be dead before zenia come in to the picture ( which be weird since zenia take roz business and home life in the book and which be why roz hat her so much ) and she and zenia have conspire to kill roz husband year and year back . and accord to the film tony and west have be date forever . even at the party where zenia and west ( in the book ) have paint the whole place black and they make tony seem like this totally with it ( and evil and bitchy ) person who be always respect by everyone for her intelligence and popular for it . tony character be so wrong in this film . she seem a little psycho and like the mastermind behind whatever conspiring be go down as oppose to the kind of gawky and mildly reclusive teacher that she be in the book . the film basically imply smart woman be evil and beautiful woman be evil and powerful woman be evil and and woman who teach yoga be off their rocker . they basically try to make it so zenia wasn not necessarily as awful a she be in the book and and then and in the end and the three woman convince this former cop ( who and of course in the process of research this and meet zenia and have an affair with her that be suppose to end with them move to barbados or something ridiculous and which of course zenia bail on ) to hide zenia body ( which they find splat at the hotel she be stay at and but the film imply that one of the three woman push her over the balcony and or they conspire together to do it . ) and then zenia also manage to take all of roz money in the process . by the end of the film i be only half pay attention between commercial b or c it have spiral so far out in space from what it could and should have be . if you aren not confuse by this breakdown of the film and then maybe you would like it and because i have read the book and see the movie and and from the movie alone i be ridiculously confuse . it be terrible . i get that make a film out of that book be quite a task and but if you be go to take on the task and you should start by determine what in the book be unnecessary and instead of create some useless character to be our alice in wonderland . be there really no fluffier book that oxygen could be make at least half decent tv movie of .