Worse than redoing what has already been done well is trying to innovate so much that it makes no sense to have used the original, to begin with. That’s the case with Fatal Attraction, apparently.

I complained about the fact that, in the re-recording, they kept some of Alex Forrester’s ‘problems’, such as his emotional instability and even more, Dan Gallagher’s “innocence”. Taking away his wife’s passivity and bringing up the problems he would have with his daughter were interesting updates, but the series became content of “Who killed Alex” with some suspects on my list, something I confess I got wrong. The choice of the killer was surprising, but perhaps so much so that it doesn’t make any sense. It was even comical. Just as it got bizarre to turn Dan’s daughter Ellen into a mini-Alex. So it is.

The conclusion of the series is now on the road of drama and gratuitous surprises. This confirms the big mistake of trying to surf the hits of others. Fatal Attraction deserved a modern retelling, one that didn’t make the female figure so tediously cliché. Too bad the wave is far from over!