Tom Lynch

True. One of the things I liked most about this film was how it showed Susie's transformation outwardly as well as inwardly. In the beginning of the film she is the perfect southern belle with perfect curls and the perfect dress. (I really do love that dress Susie wore when she met Tom's parents.) As the film progressed, her outward appearance continued to match her downward spiral. At the end, in her final moments of life, she is totally unrecognizable from what she used to be. She went from a feminine, dainty, albeit shrill, difficult woman, to almost androgynous.

She lost herself entirely. When that clip is played at the end of Susie at the wedding, it was incredible to see how far she fell in such a short period of time. It's a shame she didn't get the help she needed for her mental and marital problems. I think if she and Tom had undergone mariral couseling, as well as individual counseling for herself and some proper medication, she couldn've been okay. I wonder what was really in those pills Fritz gave her.

I noticed as soon as she took them, she really went downhill. Towards the end, she really believed all the craziness Fritz was feeding her. She became so paranoid and out of touch that I couldn't help but feel sorry for her. She had so much going for her it's such a shame all that energy was channeled in the wrong direction.



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I do agree that Tom has had more than his share of grief for one lifetime. I can't imagine. I just don't put too much stock in these t.v. movies to portray the real life characters accurately. For example, "The Betty Broderick Story" made for t.v. movie is nothing like the real story AT ALL. And I wonder how much creative license was taken to tell the Lynch/Newsom story as portrayed on t.v. Yes, Susie and Fritz were both nuts and no one deserves to have their children blown up to resolve a custody battle, but I want to know why Tom took Susie to New Mexico when she clearly wanted to stay in NC. Shouldn't they have talked about relocating BEFORE they got married? And it seems like he was pretty hands off with the kids (that is if the t.v. movie is accurate). I'm not trying to say that Tom deserved what he got; maybe I'm not articulating well. But I just can't help but think there's more to this story (and it was a FOUR HOUR movie!) than what was told. As far as staying single or going to a different college, how was he to know that Susie was so "high strung" and that events would take the turn they did.



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