To be frank considering their performance it could have been a bit more, but all others except Margaret pulled it all down, and the worst was the direction.
The plot is not too unpredictable - there is a happily married couple in the midts of which thoroughly ruthless- probably cruel and sadist is a correct term to add to that - and scheming woman Jerry lands up and in her first meeting itself alienates the husband from wife. Well with that type of husband, I don't suppose any wife would like to go back for future and likely repetible mishaps of this kind, but being under code and also to have the soap coefficient she does. How to manage the current wife into becoming ex-wife is too silly to think of, as was anyway her scheme to become a wife itself.
The woman is a celebrity (as introduced), a champion sportswoman - and quite definitely socialite - and must be one of means too,, though not told explicitly, but to be mocing around, playing those championships do cost money. And with her media exposure, and popularity, and looks, one could hardly believe when she said "I didn't marry you for money, or looks" is understandable "But you are the best I could get my hands on" is certainly not, and then trying to prove her a gld digger when she left him, for his alimony payments ? Unbelievable of course one have to think of his first wife-about to be third one and her situation, since he would have to still pay alimony to one of the wives, the second one in this case.
It won't have been so bad considering Ann, unfortunately typecast into soaps of this type - there and a couple of good performances by Lindsay and Ellis but all others were quite thoroughly rotten, including Abel as the constant suitor, they weren't convincing, and almost wooden, including Herbert.
Review of The Lady Consents
