Picks and Pans Review: The Stranger Beside Me

UPDATED 09/18/1995 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 09/18/1995 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (Sun., Sept. 17, 9 p.m. ET)

B

In this thriller, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (the hellcat Valerie on Beverly Hills, 90210) plays a withdrawn artistic type who is swept off her feet by the perfect guy (Eric Close). A Navy recruit, he helps her get over the aftereffects of a rape. ("Marry me," he vows, "and I swear no one will ever hurt you like that again. Not ever.")

They wed, and Close, of course, turns out to be Not What He Seems. One hint: the police arrest him as a Peeping Tom at the same time Thiessen finds out she's pregnant. Though the plot is transparent, it still unspools suspensefully.

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