The Chicken Sisters

I was so excited for this show because I love the book. The show is so bad it's unwatchable. I had to force myself to finish the first episode and I definitely will not be watching any more than that. The writers took everything and changed it for no apparent reason. Characters, names, locations. Even if they had left those things the same the acting is so bad. Really just SO BAD. And there are cast members in this that I normally like! They took a really enjoyable book and destroyed it. It's really a shame. This should be a quaint and charming show. Instead it's just a train wreck. I was so disappointed.

I had high hopes for this series. It was one of the reasons that I signed up for Hallmark+.

Unfortunately, I'm sorry to be superficial but I don't think Schuyler Fisk is well cast for her role. I didn't find it believable that Sergio appears to have an instant attraction to her in the season's first episode. She has quirky facial features. I just didn't feel the romantic connection and that's important to me if I'm going to immerse myself into the storyline and root for the characters.

Because it's not believable for me, I won't continue with the series.

I'll be looking out for more new Hallmark content in the future.

This is a television show about southerners in a southern town, filmed in Canada, with not a single southern actor. All of the actors use fake southern accents, portray the southerners with typical stereotypes that Hollywood and non-southerners think all southerners look like, act like, and behave like. Southerners are sick and tired of being made fun of, being ridiculed, and looked down upon. Your portrayal of people with southern roots shows exactly what you think of all of us as a whole. Stop making fun of southerners!!! This is insulting!!!!! Shame on you Hallmark, shame on you Hollywood! Enough is enough!

I admit that I never read the books but do know that 9 times out of 10, the books are always so much better that the tv or movie versions. That being said I started to watch the 1st episode and it was pretty cringeworthy. The perk of watching it on a streaming service is that you can fast-forward it. I managed about 20 minutes just enough to get introduced to all at least most of the characters and get a gist of the story. Then I jumped to the last episode of season 1, episode 8. The first couple of minutes showed all I needed to see during the "previously" segment.

Then I jumped to the winning results and then scanned to the end. I feel bad for Wendy and Lea. They are still great actors but this is a sad sad show.

I never read or even knew there were books until I started reading reviews. I thoroughly enjoyed the series and would love to see another season. I appreciated the narrator moving the story along and providing back story content. I feel there are still a lot of things left unexplored that would lend well to future episodes/seasons. I enjoyed the family dynamics and the character building allowed me to be invested in seeing how they would evolve.

So hard to find good shows these days especially ones that last longer than one season. I find myself starting one episode of a series and never going back, I ended up binge watching this straight through over 2 days.