99 Words About … The bungling of Lifetime’s ‘Client List’
April 5, 2012 - 1:01 am
Jennifer Love Hewitt. In lingerie. Handing out happy endings.
How do you make that boring?
Leave it to Lifetime.
“The Client List” (10 p.m. Sunday) — about a massage therapist giving “extras” to make ends meet — could have been a gritty look at sex workers.
With Hewitt forever threatening to spill out of her wardrobe, it could have given straight guys their first reason to watch Lifetime.
Instead, it’s a lame, tame bait-and-switch that glosses over the illegalities so Hewitt can spend time fixing her clients’ romantic lives.
Think “The Perv Whisperer.”
And expect to be rubbed the wrong way.
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE