Did anyone watch The Lottery on Lifetime? - Spoilers

[karinothing]

Yes i love lifetime! No shame!

Anyway, I thought it was interesting. Basic premise of the show is that the world has been hit with infertility. As in there haven't been any kids born in 6 years. Everyone in the US is required to go through mandatory fertility testing/monitoring. Scientist lady (Heather Graham look alike) manages to fertilize 100 eggs (which no one has done in 6 years) and now there is conspiracy and craziness abounds.

Anyway, seems kind of interesting so far.

[egeiger]

Didn't watch but saw commercials. Are they her eggs or those frozen in a bank ?

[thejen626]

I watched it! It was ok. I loved Children of Men and it's the same people that wrote this series.

[thejen626]

Jul 22, 2014 22:04:39 GMT -5 egeiger said:

Didn't watch but saw commercials. Are they her eggs or those frozen in a bank ?

Donated eggs frozen in a lab.

But she secretly reads the sperm donor lists and bangs the random dudes on the list to try and get pregnant herself

[xokell2]

I have it on my DVR

[ssmjlm]

I thought this was going to be about another re-make of the Shirley Jackson short story.

[shortstax]

I didn't watch it, but I read the recap here: community.ew.com/2014/07/21/the-lottery-premiere-recap-100-fertilized-eggs/

It intrigued me enough to add to my DVR.

[karinothing]

Jul 22, 2014 22:50:40 GMT -5 thejen626 said:

Jul 22, 2014 22:04:39 GMT -5 egeiger said:

Didn't watch but saw commercials. Are they her eggs or those frozen in a bank ?

Donated eggs frozen in a lab.

But she secretly reads the sperm donor lists and bangs the random dudes on the list to try and get pregnant herself

Donated is interesting, because I am not entirely sure the ladies had much choice to donate. Forced donation might be a way to put it.

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Jul 23, 2014 7:09:33 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

I thought this was going to be about another re-make of the Shirley Jackson short story.

Me too.  I was like 'that doesn't sound like something Lifetime would run.'  Haha, that's because it isn't!

[thejen626]

Jul 23, 2014 7:16:33 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Jul 22, 2014 22:50:40 GMT -5 thejen626 said:

Donated eggs frozen in a lab.

But she secretly reads the sperm donor lists and bangs the random dudes on the list to try and get pregnant herself

Donated is interesting, because I am not entirely sure the ladies had much choice to donate. Forced donation might be a way to put it.

Oh I must have missed that part! I thought that all the women would basically do anything to have a baby, including donating their eggs "for the cause" so to speak...?

[ESF]

This sounds amazingly trashy! I will definitely be checking it out.

[karinothing]

Jul 23, 2014 11:18:18 GMT -5 thejen626 said:

Jul 23, 2014 7:16:33 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Donated is interesting, because I am not entirely sure the ladies had much choice to donate. Forced donation might be a way to put it.

Oh I must have missed that part! I thought that all the women would basically do anything to have a baby, including donating their eggs "for the cause" so to speak...?

Yeah, I think it was that too. BUt there were all those protests outside the clinic. I think that people went to mandatory testing and donating eggs or something?? LIke I think you were selected by the gov and you wanted to do it, but also you might not have 100% free choice to do it?

[phunluvin82]

I didn't watch, but I might check it out. I thought Children of Men was really good and kind of a fascinating premise. Do they tie the series into the movie in any way, or is it just the same writers/same premise?

[krisim]

I DVR'd it and watched it last night. I thought it was really interesting, I'm planning to watch the rest. It definitely didn't feel like a lifetime series!