an uproariously witty satire on petty bourgeois american value and john water bring his own distinctive madness to the screen by focussing on cardboard cut out caricature of pop culture americana . turn his outrageous gaze on an archetypally perfect housewife and mother from the baltimore suburb in maryland and supportive to her loving husband and teenage kid and possess a real tlent for cooking and it appear that she be everything a stable and hard working business man could want . however and there be a slight catch . she be also a serial killer . mom tendency to take bloody revenge on any poor neighbouring housewife who fail to observe her rigid socially acceptable guideline and like not recycle rubbish or drive too fast and be so barmy you be sure to find it absurdly and darkly funny . kathleen turner and alternate between dizzy and unquestioning devotion to her family and clinically cool and yet psychotic anger to offend neighbour and either appear to possess a martyr yellow halo above her head and denote divine lightness and freshness and or a focussed smile a she carefully contemplate her next victim . if you be on the lookout for some perfectly vibrant and yet malicious black comedy and subscribe to serial mom and one of the most ruthless and patronise skit on good manner and nosey and voyeuristic neighbour ever to hit the screen . if you like water late irreverent venture into visceral and cut black humour and then get all his other movie and because they be all even more extreme and grotesque pink flamingo and hairspray and cry baby all kitschy and underrated classic in their own right .