Just as there have been a lot of box office bombs that actually blew up on Netflix , we are also beginning to see more and more TV movies that quietly failed their original run succeeding at having a second life. This includes Lifetime original movies, which can be the perfect thing to put on and sort of half-ignore for a cozy Netflix and chill kind of evening. Case in point: "Taken in Plain Sight," which originally aired on the Lifetime Movie Network in 2024, and soared all the way to #2 on the top 10 movies on Netflix right after it was added to the service.

Is "Taken in Plain Sight" a good movie? Not by any critical metric, but that is besides the point. A lot of people love a cheesy, melodramatic tale of tragedy that eventually gives way to an implausible yet crowd-pleasing comeuppanc

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