“Imagine Richard Osman seasoned with intrigue in the spirit of ‘Desperate Housewives’ — and you’ll get ‘Very Bad Widows.’ Fast, audacious, and dangerously funny!” — CRIMETIME
THREE BEST FRIENDS DREAM OF A LUXURIOUS RETIREMENT FOR SIXTY. AND ONLY THEIR THREE HUSBANDS STAND IN THE WAY.
Pam, Nancy, and Shaliza pictured retirement as pure pleasure: cocktails, relaxation, and a jacuzzi in the backyard. But their dreams collapse when their husbands pour all their savings into a questionable scheme. Suddenly, their “golden years” look more like a pile of rust — as does, for that matter, their family life.
And then the friends learn by chance: their husbands have insurance policies in place for amounts with lots of zeros. Getting the payout all at once suddenly seems far more tempting than dragging out a poor old age alongside their loathsome husbands. That’s how a plan is born—one that even makes room for a killer hairdresser (cut, style, and — a quiet finale). Only the women haven’t realized yet: their husbands have a few surprises in store, too…