EPISODE

1. Dead Right

Cathy wants a rich and successful life, and fast. She visits a medium who tells her she will meet a man who will inherit a lot of money, and die in a violent way soon after. When she meets grossly overweight Charlie who informs her of his rich relatives, she promptly marries him. As it turns out, the medium is always right.

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In 1950, gold-digging secretary Cathy Finch ( Demi Moore ) marries Charlie Marno ( Jeffrey Tambor ), an overweight, unhygienic, and grotesque slob of a man after being told by a fortune teller, Madame Vorna ( Natalia Nogulich ), that he will die shortly after inheriting a large sum of money. Vorna's prediction does come true, but not in the way that Cathy expects. Also starring Kate Hodge and Earl Boen.

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