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''Overexposed'' is a 2018 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}} written and directed by Conor Allyn.
Erin Prescott (Mary Katherine Duhon) is a high school student and the daughter of Sheila Prescott (Creator/MargueriteMoreau), the sheriff of Grassford County, who's running for re-election. After going on a date with hunky classmate and school baseball star Taylor Cowls (Sam Chance), he and Erin engage in a sexting session that climaxes with Taylor coercing Erin into sending some racy selfies. After opting out of attending a campaign rally for her mom with the excuse of doing homework, Erin invites Taylor to her house, but after he tries to force her into non-consensual sex, a chain of events ends with Erin accidentally killing Taylor, then disposing of his body in a shallow grave. Unaware that her daughter is the culprit, Sheila investigates the death with her deputy Stuart Shelby (David Maldonado), who also happens to be her election opponent. Meanwhile, Taylor's brother Jimmy (Jake Allyn) mourns the death and strikes up a flirtation with Erin, who tries to keep a straight face as she's wracked by guilt.
!! ''Overxposed'' contains examples of:
* {{Antihero}}: Erin is presented as the Gray side of a BlackAndGrayMorality situation. While Taylor clearly slid way over into QuestionableConsent by urging her to take the selfies and assuming it gave him a green light to have sex with her, her actions after his fall--not calling for help, then burying the body in the woods and trying to cover it all up--are unsettling. Then her relationship with Jimmy, which ''does'' end up in a sexual encounter, is very ill-advised.
* AssholeVictim:
** Taylor, a would-be rapist and pornographer, accidentally dies by Erin's hand.
** Also arguably the case for [[spoiler:Joanna]], who gets killed after participation in Erin's cover-up that's motivated by petty revenge-seeking.
* BeautyIsBad: The two main villains, [[spoiler:the Cowls brothers]], are handsome.
* BlackmailBackfire: Taylor's sexting scheme is to get girls to send him lewd pics, then coerce them into sex by threatening to send them out to others. While it's worked in the past, with Erin it ends up costing him his life.
* BurnerPhones: Used by [[spoiler:Jimmy]] to send Erin's sexting photos back to her, then out to the entire school.
* DarkerAndEdgier: For a Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie, this is notable for centering on a sensational, but fairly realistic, scenario and featuring a deeply-flawed protagonist.
* DateRapeAverted: Invited into Erin's bedroom, Taylor tries to seduce her, but she stops him. He tries to argue that the selfies she sent him amounted to consent, and she reluctantly goes along before stopping him again. Angrily, he threatens to send the selfies to his baseball teammates, which leads to his accidental death.
* DeathByFallingOver: Erin physically confronts Taylor as he tries to send out her selfies, causing him to fall down the staircase at the Prescott house, which kills him.
* DictionaryOpening: The movie opens with some text discussing how prevalent sexting is among teens, to explain exactly what the word "sexting" means.
* DramaticIrony: The movie runs on the drama of Sheila investigating a death that she doesn't know her daughter is resposible for.
* FreudianExcuse: While the movie doesn't use it to excuse his actions, it establishes that Taylor's mother died a few years earlier and it threw the Cowls family into turmoil, [[spoiler:especially his deranged brother Jimmy]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: Taylor's sexual misdeeds are revealed [[spoiler:to have been based on techniques taught to him by his older brother Jimmy]].
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Erin waking up in the woods in the middle of the night as a man digs a shallow grave, then backtracks to explain why it's happening.
* IntimateTelecommunications: The entire plot is kicked off by a sexting session between Erin and Taylor in which he asks her for sexy selfies. It later comes to light that Taylor has done this to a number of other girls at his achool.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Variation, as it rains at the candlelight vigil for Taylor.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the MotiveRant, the evil [[spoiler:Jimmy]] notes that, apart from what happened to cause Taylor's death, Erin deciding to cover up the crime and dispose of the body was a morally repugnant move and a violation of basic human dignity.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Jimmy]] give one to Erin at the climax, mixed with a convoluted TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and a lot of MonsterMisogyny about girls and sex.
* NewMediaAreEvil: It's a cautionary tale about sexting, though instead of just the practice itself, the focus is on the possible negative consequences of it.
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The only in-story indication of the movie's setting is that it takes place in fictional Grassford County, but the movie itself doesn't really try to hide that it was filmed in the town of Guthrie, Oklahoma (in Logan County). The Guthrie water tower even shows up in an establishing shot.
* PoliceProcedural: It starts as a ReverseWhodunnit, with Sheila and Shelby investigating Taylor's death though the audience knows what happened, then the death of [[spoiler:Joanna]] poses an actual mystery to be investigated.
* PopUpTexting: Used throughout the show the texts and photos being shared.
* RedHerring:
** InUniverse, the death of [[spoiler:Joanna]] in the wake of Taylor's death leads everyone to think a SerialKiller is on the loose, when she was actually [[spoiler:killed by Jimmy]].
** The movie itself does this, since [[spoiler:Jimmy and Deputy Shelby]] both have access to the selfies Erin took and both have a motive to murder [[spoiler:Joanna--Jimmy to avenge Taylor's death, Shelby to make it look a crime wave is sweeping through the county so he can unseat Sheila in the election]], so it's not clear up until the climax which one is the killer, or even if they might be acting in cahoots. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Jimmy is the villain and Shelby is innocent]].
* SlutShaming: The whole town does it to the girls who are revealed to have been sexting with Taylor.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: A variation on this, as Erin asks her mother some pointed hypothetical questions about how she would investigate a murder, to help in her cover-up of Taylor's death. In answering them, Sheila makes a TemptingFate remark about how rare murders are in the town. When Taylor's body is found, presumably the WeirdnessCensor prevented Sheila from remembering the conversation and looking into her daughter's possible involvement.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Joanna]] starts talking to [[spoiler:Jimmy]] after word gets out about the other girls Taylor sexted with, not knowing that [[spoiler:he's out for revenge, and he kills her]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Rachel is a bit of a ShipperOnDeck for the doomed Erin[=/=]Taylor pairing.
** [[spoiler:Joanna]] tells [[spoiler:Jimmy]] that Erin killed Taylor, leading to [[spoiler:Jimmy seducing Erin then attempting to murder her]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Erin's bubbly friend Rachel appears like she's going to be a major character in her early scenes, but then largely disappears in the second half of the movie.
* WomanScorned: Erin confides in her friend Joanna, one of Taylor's other conquests, that she killed him, and Joanna gleefully helps her bury the body.
''Overexposed'' is a 2018 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}} written and directed by Conor Allyn.
Erin Prescott (Mary Katherine Duhon) is a high school student and the daughter of Sheila Prescott (Creator/MargueriteMoreau), the sheriff of Grassford County, who's running for re-election. After going on a date with hunky classmate and school baseball star Taylor Cowls (Sam Chance), he and Erin engage in a sexting session that climaxes with Taylor coercing Erin into sending some racy selfies. After opting out of attending a campaign rally for her mom with the excuse of doing homework, Erin invites Taylor to her house, but after he tries to force her into non-consensual sex, a chain of events ends with Erin accidentally killing Taylor, then disposing of his body in a shallow grave. Unaware that her daughter is the culprit, Sheila investigates the death with her deputy Stuart Shelby (David Maldonado), who also happens to be her election opponent. Meanwhile, Taylor's brother Jimmy (Jake Allyn) mourns the death and strikes up a flirtation with Erin, who tries to keep a straight face as she's wracked by guilt.
!! ''Overxposed'' contains examples of:
* {{Antihero}}: Erin is presented as the Gray side of a BlackAndGrayMorality situation. While Taylor clearly slid way over into QuestionableConsent by urging her to take the selfies and assuming it gave him a green light to have sex with her, her actions after his fall--not calling for help, then burying the body in the woods and trying to cover it all up--are unsettling. Then her relationship with Jimmy, which ''does'' end up in a sexual encounter, is very ill-advised.
* AssholeVictim:
** Taylor, a would-be rapist and pornographer, accidentally dies by Erin's hand.
** Also arguably the case for [[spoiler:Joanna]], who gets killed after participation in Erin's cover-up that's motivated by petty revenge-seeking.
* BeautyIsBad: The two main villains, [[spoiler:the Cowls brothers]], are handsome.
* BlackmailBackfire: Taylor's sexting scheme is to get girls to send him lewd pics, then coerce them into sex by threatening to send them out to others. While it's worked in the past, with Erin it ends up costing him his life.
* BurnerPhones: Used by [[spoiler:Jimmy]] to send Erin's sexting photos back to her, then out to the entire school.
* DarkerAndEdgier: For a Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie, this is notable for centering on a sensational, but fairly realistic, scenario and featuring a deeply-flawed protagonist.
* DateRapeAverted: Invited into Erin's bedroom, Taylor tries to seduce her, but she stops him. He tries to argue that the selfies she sent him amounted to consent, and she reluctantly goes along before stopping him again. Angrily, he threatens to send the selfies to his baseball teammates, which leads to his accidental death.
* DeathByFallingOver: Erin physically confronts Taylor as he tries to send out her selfies, causing him to fall down the staircase at the Prescott house, which kills him.
* DictionaryOpening: The movie opens with some text discussing how prevalent sexting is among teens, to explain exactly what the word "sexting" means.
* DramaticIrony: The movie runs on the drama of Sheila investigating a death that she doesn't know her daughter is resposible for.
* FreudianExcuse: While the movie doesn't use it to excuse his actions, it establishes that Taylor's mother died a few years earlier and it threw the Cowls family into turmoil, [[spoiler:especially his deranged brother Jimmy]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: Taylor's sexual misdeeds are revealed [[spoiler:to have been based on techniques taught to him by his older brother Jimmy]].
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Erin waking up in the woods in the middle of the night as a man digs a shallow grave, then backtracks to explain why it's happening.
* IntimateTelecommunications: The entire plot is kicked off by a sexting session between Erin and Taylor in which he asks her for sexy selfies. It later comes to light that Taylor has done this to a number of other girls at his achool.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Variation, as it rains at the candlelight vigil for Taylor.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the MotiveRant, the evil [[spoiler:Jimmy]] notes that, apart from what happened to cause Taylor's death, Erin deciding to cover up the crime and dispose of the body was a morally repugnant move and a violation of basic human dignity.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Jimmy]] give one to Erin at the climax, mixed with a convoluted TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and a lot of MonsterMisogyny about girls and sex.
* NewMediaAreEvil: It's a cautionary tale about sexting, though instead of just the practice itself, the focus is on the possible negative consequences of it.
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The only in-story indication of the movie's setting is that it takes place in fictional Grassford County, but the movie itself doesn't really try to hide that it was filmed in the town of Guthrie, Oklahoma (in Logan County). The Guthrie water tower even shows up in an establishing shot.
* PoliceProcedural: It starts as a ReverseWhodunnit, with Sheila and Shelby investigating Taylor's death though the audience knows what happened, then the death of [[spoiler:Joanna]] poses an actual mystery to be investigated.
* PopUpTexting: Used throughout the show the texts and photos being shared.
* RedHerring:
** InUniverse, the death of [[spoiler:Joanna]] in the wake of Taylor's death leads everyone to think a SerialKiller is on the loose, when she was actually [[spoiler:killed by Jimmy]].
** The movie itself does this, since [[spoiler:Jimmy and Deputy Shelby]] both have access to the selfies Erin took and both have a motive to murder [[spoiler:Joanna--Jimmy to avenge Taylor's death, Shelby to make it look a crime wave is sweeping through the county so he can unseat Sheila in the election]], so it's not clear up until the climax which one is the killer, or even if they might be acting in cahoots. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Jimmy is the villain and Shelby is innocent]].
* SlutShaming: The whole town does it to the girls who are revealed to have been sexting with Taylor.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: A variation on this, as Erin asks her mother some pointed hypothetical questions about how she would investigate a murder, to help in her cover-up of Taylor's death. In answering them, Sheila makes a TemptingFate remark about how rare murders are in the town. When Taylor's body is found, presumably the WeirdnessCensor prevented Sheila from remembering the conversation and looking into her daughter's possible involvement.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Joanna]] starts talking to [[spoiler:Jimmy]] after word gets out about the other girls Taylor sexted with, not knowing that [[spoiler:he's out for revenge, and he kills her]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Rachel is a bit of a ShipperOnDeck for the doomed Erin[=/=]Taylor pairing.
** [[spoiler:Joanna]] tells [[spoiler:Jimmy]] that Erin killed Taylor, leading to [[spoiler:Jimmy seducing Erin then attempting to murder her]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Erin's bubbly friend Rachel appears like she's going to be a major character in her early scenes, but then largely disappears in the second half of the movie.
* WomanScorned: Erin confides in her friend Joanna, one of Taylor's other conquests, that she killed him, and Joanna gleefully helps her bury the body.
