Posted by Dustin on 07.20.2013 at 9:43 pm

So “Mistresses” is a summer show I’ve been watching, but haven’t really blogged about. Initially I wasn’t sure if I would like it, but after a few episodes I’ve found myself hooked. I also wasn’t sure if I wanted to add it to the blog. It’s the perfect show for me because it’s so soap-like, but the ratings were initially horrible and ABC has a terrible reputation (well in my mind) with these summer shows that they never renew after one season. However the ratings have been getting better (but not much), and TVLine reports the casts has had their contract option extended. So it sounds like it’s possible ABC may actually give it a season 2.

The show is a remake of a BBC show, in which four friends find their lives turned upside down by affairs. Either they are having one, had one, or found out their husband had one. Oddly enough the storyline I was initially the least interested in, that of April, is the one I’m most interested in now. She found out her dead husband had an affair, was planning to leave her (so said his mistress) and fathered a child with the woman. The woman showed up wanting money, and April idiotically bent over backwards to help this woman and her child. Oh she hated her, but she wanted to do right by the kid. At the end of the last episode, as she finally moved on and found happiness with a new guy after years of morning her husband . . . her dead husband shows up on her doorstep!

That’s what I like about the show. The over-the-top soap campiness of it. I actually do hope the show gets a second season, if only because I know this season will somehow end on a cliff-hanger and I hate when things are left unresolved.