TUBI ORIGINAL: Forever Us (2023)

Chris Stokes and Marques Houston are the kings of Tubi movies, proving month after month that they know exactly what viewers are looking for, making movies about marriages gone wrong and lives destroyed in the process, including The StepmotherVicious AffairPicture Me DeadThe Assistant and I Hate You to Death.

Now, they’re telling the story of Burt Harris (Oshea Russell), a former college basketball player who is now known as the attractive guy who delivers water to various businesses in a shopping plaza. His wife Kate (Lyrica Anderson) works for a pharmaceutical company that is close to figuring out cancer and also makes ED meds. Their daughter Tiffany (Skylar Dominique) is a high school basketball player good enough to play pro, just like her father before his knee injury.

However, this busy life doesn’t leave much time for love and Burt keeps feeling like his needs aren’t important. When he meets Bella (Zonnique) — he runs into her, literally, with his car — at her sister Melissa’s (Blac Chyna) restaurant he feels an instant connection. He tries to stay away but as Chris Rock said, “A man is only as faithful as his options.”

After flirting about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, all of Kate’s putting off Burt finally gets to him. He starts visiting her at Dirty Dan’s Sushi, where she gets a job and she keeps making him coffee, even making a Fresh Prince mug for him. He should have left that cup at her house and maybe not visited that night. But she’s pretty much blameless in this. She had no idea that he had a wife and they broke up when she found out. When Kate visits, she probably shouldn’t have talked about how bad her marriage is and she wouldn’t have been — spoiler warning — killed. But that’s what brings Kurt and Kate back together, the fact that he would do so much for her.

There are some moments that don’t add up in this like Burt meeting his old friends to talk about one of their marriages or when he throws out that he knows a cop who is the boss of the two detectives investigating the disappearance of Bella.

There’s also the scene where Tiffany is leaving for the prom and Burt gets mental about it. He’s trying to act like he’s joking to the poor guy but it comes off at best that he’s an overprotective dad and at worst jealous and that he’s in love with his child way more than as a dad. This is never followed up on and feels out of character.

The end shows that this couple will be looking for cops the rest of their lives of they can keep getting away with it. They have gotten closer, somehow, in spite of the infidelity and killing. Is that the message in this? Or are we waiting for the sequel?

You can watch this on Tubi.

2 thoughts on “TUBI ORIGINAL: Forever Us (2023)

    • I came looking for the same answer too. It was so weird. A part of me thinks it’s a blooper and they meant to have Kate calling Burt to show that he wasn’t picking up the phone for her.

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