In "Till Death Do Us Part," there is a lengthy opening scene of the lavish wedding of Dr. Kevin Richardson and Sarah Marks. A lovely ceremony is followed by an extravagant party in which Kevin and Sarah seem like the perfect couple. But after that day, nothing will ever be the same for Dr. and Mrs. Richardson. And in the film as a whole, the wedding sequence is the most fully realized and contains the most convincing moments.
Kevin and Sarah move into their home in the North Woods. Almost instantly, Sarah senses that Kevin is a control freak, and the intrusive presence of her bossy sister-in-law Jolene adds to the stress on Sarah. She also has nightmares in which she is on the receiving end of ghoulish medical treatments by her husband. On top of everything, Sarah has a bum ticker and is being heavily medicated by her cardiologist husband. Sarah eventually learns on Google that she is being administered hallucinogens.
The film was overly unpleasant as Sarah's life was made completely miserable by her deranged husband. There were also major lapses in logic in the screenplay, especially in the details about Kevin's past. He was deeply attached to his first wife Camilla. But something happened that led to her disappearance. But when Sarah confronted Camilla's mother, Mrs. Thek, she was told that Kevin adored Camilla and never hurt her. And in dialogue in the denouement, the detectives state that Kevin did not kill Camilla and that "she's the one that got away."
It was also unclear what exactly was the role played by Jolene in enabling her brother's neurosis. It was never made clear what was in it for Jolene to subject Sarah to a miserable existence and at one point to make an attempt on the life of Sarah's dear Auntie Liz. The police were also inexplicably negligent in failing to investigate the background of Kevin, who fairly recently went by the name of Cunningham.
Overall, the film was a long and messy string of sick acts carried out by Dr. Richardson and his strange sister. The nice gardener Alec Lasky, his beautiful golden retriever Sonny, and the kind teacher Ethan Walker were all senseless casualties that did not serve to advance the narrative other than to make untimely exits due to crazy doctor.
In the end, "Til Death Do Us Part" was a concatenation of horrors that never added up into credible slice of life.