For a silly Lifetime thriller, this was an okay time waster. Easy to watch with a drink and a couple snacks. Perfect silly rainy Sunday or Covid-19 quarantine material.

Although it was well cast and well acted, "Homecoming Revenge" (a.k.a., "Dying for the Crown") was a by-the-numbers revenge drama.

The opening scene is an ugly encounter at the Homecoming celebration at Fern Creek High School. Andrea Turner makes a scene by disrupting the awarding of Homecoming King and Queen to Isabelle Wagner and Rod Taylor. In a tussle on the stage, Andrea falls off the platform, seriously injuring herself. She needs years of therapy and rehab and cannot expect ever to deliver a baby.

Now, two decades later, Andrea is baaaaaaaaaak!!!

After murdering her husband Christopher, Andrea proceeds to worm her way into the life of her high school rival, Isabelle. She murders the nice assistant Jasmine at Isabelle's Country Squire Florist shop. Later, she kills Molly, the lover of her deceased husband.

Of course, there is the inevitable reprise of the Homecoming awards ceremony with Isabelle's daughter Sierra and her football player Cody honored as Queen and King. The same choreography of Andrea plopping off the platform will be repeated.

The best scene in the film is the denouement where Andrea has turned in her red dress for an orange jumpsuit in prison. She has made her own crown of thorns with which she will clock the warden. She truly has discovered not only what it is like to be Queen for a day. Andrea will be the Queen of Cell Block Nine for a lifetime.