Play-by-play of Lifetime’s latest film: Who’s Stalking Me?
By Mads Lennon
Lifetime’s latest thriller, Who’s Stalking Me?, is about a young woman terrorized in her own home and her growing suspicions of the detective on her case.
Who’s Stalking Me? opens to two girls chatting over the phone. One is an extra vegan-y vegan named Jeanie with plenty of harsh judgments to spare, and the other is a painter trying to convince her friend to help her paint her studio.
Painter Girl, Amanda, is trying to fix herself a snack (and by snack I mean she happens to find a plate with a head of broccoli and raw carrots wrapped in a rubber band and plans to dig in… with a fork and no dressing? Is she the psychopath?) when she hears something in her house.
Suddenly she’s being attacked by a masked man, she hits him over the head with a camera and escapes into the bathroom where she waits for him to leave. A detective is at her door in seconds claiming the man has left.
Possible-stalker-Detective-Dawson (Twilight fans you’re looking at an all grown up Mike Newton!) tries to get Amanda’s statement, only to be interrupted by Det. Valencia who points out the policy about female interviewers and suspects. I don’t know if that’s a real thing but I don’t know enough about police protocol to dispute it so, sure.
Most likely she intervened because Dawson was throwing some serious flirty-creepy sparks in Amanda’s direction.
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Amanda learns how to protect herself
Post-attack, Amanda is feeling exposed. She decides to arm herself with a gun in case another attack happens. Let’s see if Who’s Stalking Me? adheres to the Chekhov’s gun rule.
Meanwhile, Valenica is closing in on Dawson if the giant circles around his name on her clue sheet is any indication. For her snooping, she gets trapped in her running car in her own garage as the place fills with gas. I like how she says out loud “I have no reception!” After we clearly see her phone say “no service.” Somehow this guy managed to forcibly lock her in her car and prevent her from turning it off and she suffocates from the gas.
Dawson delivers the news of Valenica’s death to Amanda and her work pal Liam, “My partner Valenica, she was found dead this morning.” Dawson informs her, to which Liam follows up with a question: “Are you sure it was a suicide?”
WAIT. How does Liam know it was suicide? Dawson never said how she died. Hm, maybe our stalker suspect pool has widened.
The tragic backstory to earn the main character’s trust
Dawson claims his mother was killed by a stalker when he was a kid, that’s why he’s taking Amanda’s case so personally, not because he’s, you know, the actual stalker and wants to eventually finish the job or anything! It works like a charm. Amanda is growing fond of Dawson, or James, as they’ve progressed to first-name basis.
Liam, her ex-boyfriend/co-worker, doesn’t like Dawson. He’s jealous of the budding relationship between the detective and his ex that he’s clearly still hung up on, and he thinks Dawson has bad intentions. Well, he’s right on that front but I cringed every time he said the phrase “having his way with you.”
When Amanda gets home, she finds James has followed through on his promise to get an alarm system installed. Liam insists its weird and I gotta agree. Alarm systems are expensive, it’s not the same as fixing a door lock. But my guess is she’s not going to catch on until the last second as these things tend to go.
Detective Dawson finds his fall man
Dawson frames a random man doing his best Charle Day impression (that voice), and sets him up to take the blame for his crimes. Amanda is off the hook! Why shouldn’t she believe the handsome detective who has become way too invested in her case and installed a ridiculously expensive security system into her house (even Jeanie agrees with me on the outlandish pricing)?
Once the supposed stalker is put behind bars, Amanda can finally relax, right? She falls right into Detective Dawson’s arms, and bed, (although she wants to take things slowly before he can “have his way with her” – seriously what year is it for these people that they think that’s a normal term to use?)