99 Words About … The bungling of Lifetime’s ‘Client List’

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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