Elizabeth Carter (Erica Mena, who played the role in The Stepmother and The Stepmother 2) is still looking for her perfect family and repeating the cycle of trying to make it work, losing her mind, killing everyone and then starting over again. She still wants revenge on her true love Eddie (Marques Houston, who played this part in The Stepmother).

Before that, she’s going to try and make college-aged young men her son and be shocked when they get weirded out by it. Then, she kills them and their dads. It’s wild because this movie feels like several movies in the franchise and not just one story.

You can laugh about Tubi originals, but how many movie series today make it to three films? How many streaming shows get premieres? I mean, Erica Mena wore a LaQuan Smith-designed dress and highlighter green Tom Ford pumps on the red carpet!

After seven minutes or so of flashbacks and Elizabeth screaming while she’s covered in blood and wearing a #1 Mom shirt, we learn that while she has used so many names, she’s now Michelle and married to artist Sam Collins (Tremayne Norris) who has a son named Bobby who may be going to college on a basketball scholarship but who refuses to call Michelle his mom.

Bobby doesn’t trust his new stepmother and he’s helped along the way by a nosy Karen named Kelly (Christina Rose) who is sure that she grew up with her in Florida and that she’s Elizabeth, not Michelle. She and her grandmother are so sure that they make a pie and bring it over. You know what you don’t do to murderous stepmothering antiheroines? Bring them dessert and keep bugging them. He gets a photo of Michelle from her past and learns about her real name, determining that she’s the infamous Elizabeth Carter and seconds later, she has Sam all tied up and bloody. And then he’s dead — she beats him with a crowbar — and so is Kelly, who should have just kept her trap shut in the grocery store.

Then it’s time for a shower and a new identity. And a new man.

Michelle becomes Chantel — complete with new contacts, pink wig and a Spanish accent — and sets everything on fire. In a few weeks, she’s picking up Eric Riley from her bar job. Three weeks — and some stock footage — later and they’re married in Vegas.

Yet just like the last marriage, his son Jared doesn’t trust his new stepmother. And when his rebellious daughter Taar comes and says that she needs to stay with him because she hates her mother’s new boyfriend. He and his wife did a Parent Trap with their kids and each took one. He also gave up banging the block — or dealing drugs — which really upsets Chantel as she thinks she got Eric wrong.

Chantel remembers that yes, she likes to kill people. It doesn’t help that Jared barely likes her even if she gives him the latest Air Jordans.

Meanwhile, Harrison Linbrook (Charles Malik Whitfield) comes into a police station and demands justice as his brother Eddie has been missing for 48 hours. Detective Nolan explains that the Phoenix Police Department has been investigating Elizabeth Carter for the last eight months and they believe that she’s responsible for his disappearance.

Wait a second. How much time has passed between these movies?

There’s also Agent Jennifer Conner (Vanessa Deleon) of the Missing Persons Unit. She’s also been looking for Eddie because she thinks it’s a kidnapping. And now they say that six months ago, Elizabeth was spotting stalking his brother. There’s some exposition about the past marriages and we learn that yes, the son Bobby is dead too. So is Gail, the grandmother of the Karen who caused all that drama. And they also mention Kevin and Dustin Smith from The Stepmother 2 and how she killed his friend Dustin.

That’s when Scott (Justin Sweat) shows up from the first movie with his girlfriend. She refers to Elizabeth as “the most dangerous woman on the planet.”

The manhunt — err, womanhunt — is officially on.

Meanwhile, Michelle has become Zooey again and kidnaps Eddie, leaving him shackled up so that she can be the perfect wife for him. Her entire house is filled with the same picture with the words “You are exactly where you are meant to be” on them and she screams, “My Eddie! He’s home!”

Of course, none of the cops are getting along and fighting over who gets the arrest.

Agent Conner interviews Kevin and Dustin Smith who tell her that his ex-wife was obsessed with Eddie. More exposition but man, at least these movies tie together well. I mean, I may be the only person that loves them, so is this fan service just for me?

Somehow, Michelle and Chantel are leading dual lives and are able to talk to each other. Eddie starts using her love for him to try and escape while his family tries to figure out how to save him. They post some videos about Michelle on social media and upload it.

Chantel has a breakdown over Taar and confesses to being abused by her past relationships while having a dramatic cry. She even tells him about having a baby boy Jason with Eddie and that they both died “in a pretty bad accident.” In the middle of this emotionally charged moment between husband and wife, Taar comes in and gives some attitude. I mean, this girl is going to die.

Then w discover that Michelle has a nervous breakdown every time there’s a full moon and it’s a crescent moon! What? She thinks about what Frank did to her and sees him everywhere.

The next morning, Eddie and Michelle or Zooey or whatever have a heart to heart and learn about exactly who Frank is. Frank was the first man to ever hurt her and her son Jason was all that she ever had that was good. And Frank took him from her. “He was a child! He was innocent! He had to watch me be defiled and treated like trash!” Then she explains a crime boss named Michael that she was with, a vicious man, a married man, who took her and Jason in for a decade. And when she got pregnant, she either had to get an abortion or die. His wife was going to kill them both. Frank came with them and eventually, from all the stress, she lost the baby. Frank stayed with her, though, but one day he decided that he was in love with her and then tried to assault her. Here we are with them bonding and we learn that Michelle and Zooey and all these women are different personalities.

Finally, Taar pushes things too far and gets knocked upside the head and gets her dad and brother covered in gasoline. Taar wakes up just in time to save everyone and Chantel runs away.

As the cops narrow down which cabin is Elizabeth’s, Scott has already found out the location and is trying to get revenge all by himself. There’s an amazing fight between Scott’s girlfriend and Elizabeth that brings us to the close of this as the cops finally arrive.

At the end of all of this, when Michelle has finally been caught and is in an insane asylum and looks like Asylum Hannibal Lecter, we notice a man watching her. He’s Michael Esposito (Vincent Rivera), who says that he has finally found her. And that’s where the movie ends which means that The Stepmother 4 is happening.

You know what made this movie for me? This meme by reddit user CreatorLuither69.

I want all the sequels to this. Cross Elizabeth over with Tubi Terror Train. How about Twisted House Sitter comes on board? Girls Getaway Gone Wrong meet her too. Come on, Tubi.

Chris Stokes remains the king of Tubi Originals, adding this to You’re Not Alone, Best Friend, No Way Out, The Assistant and Howard High. Of course, you can’t forget what got us here, The Stepmother and The Stepmother 2,

Maybe he can have Elizabeth marry David from Surprise.

I am all for the TSU. The Tubi Streaming Universe.

You can watch this on Tubi.