History YMMV / TheFirstWivesClub

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The film cuts the First Wives Club's revenge against Gil, Cynthia's ex-husband, from the book, when arguably Gil is the worst of the ex-husbands, having driven his wife to suicide and showed up to the funeral with the woman he abandoned Cynthia for.

* AcceptableTargets: Younger women (specifically, younger ''straight'' women, Chris is notably exempt), almost every one of whom is portrayed or referred to badly. And men, of course.

* WhatAnIdiot: Bill's mistress, Phoebe. She had to have known it was illegal for Bill to have slept with her, since she kept the fact she was underaged from him. However, one afternoon with Elise and she spills the beans and sets Bill up to be blackmailed. Unlike the other mistresses, she wasn't mean, just incredibly stupid.

** [[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack Big]] [[Creator/LeaDeLaria Boo]] as Elise's fan in the gay bar.

** Aside from the fact that forty-something isn't considered that old these days, the cougar/MILF phenomenon of the 2010s and beyond means that nowadays, the older women would be considered just as sexy and desirable as the younger ones, if not ''more so''.

* AcceptableTargets: Younger women, almost every one of whom is portrayed or referred to badly. And men, of course.
** Younger ''straight'' women, specifically - Chris is notably exempt.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "You Don't Own Me".

** TheCameo of Ivana Trump at the end of the film can come across as this for some, in the wake of her [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump ex-husband's]] [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates contentious presidency]], as well as her abrupt death in July 2022.

** As of now, all the younger women are in their forties and even their fifties, the same age our dumped protagonists are.
** Aside from the fact that forty-something isn't considered that old these days, the cougar/MILF phenomenon of recent years means that nowadays, the older women would be considered just as sexy and desirable as the younger ones, if not ''more so''.

** The very premise of the film is quite sad - four women once [[TrueCompanions best friends in college]] end up parting ways as they take different roads and meeting again only when one of them [[DyingAlone commits suicide out of loneliness]].
*** You also see them on their Graduation Day, all optimistic. Elise was an ambitious starlet and experimenting with her hair and makeup. Brenda and Annie were much more enthusiastic and less insecure. Cynthia was so happy and the center of attention. The song "It's A Beautiful Morning" punctuates the joy of that day...only to cut to the present day with a lonely and depressed Cynthia.

* TheWoobie: Cynthia. She helps her husband climb in he financial world, only for the ungrateful prick to dump her for a younger woman. This leads her to drinking and eventual suicide.

* ValuesDissonance: Brenda's comment towards Shelly about being bulimic is very crude and mean-spirited, as eating disorders are a serious issue that many girls and women go through, and are very hard to recover from (often leading to death). Granted back in the 1990s, eating disorders were already then recently being taken seriously as a mental health concern and a women's rights issue in contrast to the 1970s-1980s where it was a sign of the excesses of capitalism (back when Brenda was younger), the comment looks more acute in TheNewTens when there was more awareness and concern for mental health issues and body image issues.

* TheWoobie: Cynthia.

* JerkassWoobie: Elise may be narcissistic, but it's hard not to feel bad for her for several reasons; her husband cheats on her with a younger woman (who thankfully does admire Elsie as an actress, and isn't spiteful like the other two "younger women" in the film), she loses one of her oldest friends to suicide, and she's starting to face ageism in Hollywood.

** TheCameo of Ivana Trump at the end of the film can come across as this for some, in the wake of her [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump ex-husband's]] [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates contentious presidency]].