Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.
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This seemingly impossible to find four episode show (1986) was amazing for its day. It's a bitter black comedy of a ugly wife scorned, who destroys the lives of her ex-husband and his new lover, the "perfect woman", so completely and outrageously that it's impossible to believe. Not for every taste. It's also very fun. Rosanne Barr & Meryl Streep immediately made a movie version that was just horribly bad, and some people watching this original mini-series might disagree with me and think the series is just as bad. It's an exaggerated fable. Both controversial and far too odd, it has completely disappeared (not even pirated anymore) -- except for a dreadful copy on youtube that no one has noticed. Watch or snag the copy there while you can.