‘The Mad Wife’ is a Chilling Portrait of 1950s Suburbia
Meagan Church’s The Mad Wife opens with a stark, unsettling premise: a young woman in early 20th-century America finds herself trapped in a life shaped more by societal expectations than her own will. Church wastes no time establishing the claustrophobic tension of a world where a woman’s identity can be rewritten—or erased—by the people who…