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Psycho Side Chick Thinks This Breakup Is Still Up for Discussion
Breaking up was Mario's plan. Kelsey has a very different idea of closure in Tubi's new relationship thriller.
Watch NowBreaking up is hard to do. Breaking up with the woman you've been secretly seeing while married? You've already skipped several steps past “it's complicated.”
Psycho Side Chick is now streaming free on Tubi, following Kelsey after her married lover decides their relationship is over. She disagrees. Strongly. Rather than accept the breakup, Kelsey becomes determined to win him back, and anybody standing between her and that goal may want to reconsider their proximity to the situation.
Love triangle feels a little too polite. This is a relationship that began with secrets, crossed several boundaries before the opening credits could judge anyone, and has now reached the particularly dangerous stage where only one person seems to agree it's finished. Mario may believe ending the affair closes the door. Kelsey is approaching the situation more like someone who's noticed the door has hinges. Maybe change the locks.
Director Booker T. Mattison takes that messy relationship into thriller territory across 92 minutes, working from a screenplay by Harlem-born filmmaker Lynette J. Blackwell and a story by Octavia Singleton. The film arrived on Tubi after an early screening at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series in Harlem.
For anyone who enjoys watching fictional relationships make choices you'd immediately advise against in the group chat, Tubi's Thrillers collection has already made room for Psycho Side Chick. Kelsey, meanwhile, has one relationship in particular she'd still like to discuss. The breakup meeting isn't over.
The Cast
Najah Bradley as Kelsey
Rejection lands very differently when Kelsey hears it. Bradley takes the woman at the center of Psycho Side Chick from secret lover to the driving force behind its dangerous breakup. Kelsey doesn't see Mario's decision as the end of their relationship so much as a problem requiring correction. Heartbreak, entitlement, and obsession start bleeding together, leaving Bradley to balance someone who genuinely believes she's fighting for love with the increasingly alarming behavior telling everyone else otherwise.
Blair Anthony Hall as Mario
Mario spends much of the movie in the uncomfortable position of realizing that a conversation he thought would end one problem may have created several new ones. Hall gets to play the growing pressure of that realization without turning Mario into an innocent bystander. His character helped create the situation, and Hall has to hold that accountability alongside the fear of watching the consequences move far beyond anything Mario expected.
Tatiana Le'Joy as Chloe
Le'Joy brings a different energy into a story dominated by Kelsey's refusal to let go. Chloe isn't carrying the same fixation, which gives Le'Joy room to ground her reactions in a perspective that hasn't been distorted by Kelsey's idea of romance. The contrast becomes especially useful as behavior Kelsey can rationalize starts looking very different to the people around her.
Niles Austin as Jerrell
Jerrell gives Austin another perspective on the fallout surrounding Kelsey and Mario, putting him among the people learning how far somebody else's relationship problems can travel. Rather than sharing Kelsey's fixation or Mario's responsibility for starting the affair, Austin gets to approach the chaos from further outside its center. Private mess, meet collateral damage.
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