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Great storyline, just a very frustrating execution. Just watch episodes 1, 7 and 8. The rest is filler and adds absolutely nothing to the plot. Pretentious use of time, ridiculous script at points, but a nice overall storyline if it had been 3 episodes, or a movie. Acting across the board is decent, especially with some of the ridiculous lines the actors were forced to regurgitate, and cinematography is pleasant.

Bit twee and cheesy at times, would have benefited at being clear as to what audience they are looking to engage - seems like they tried to pander to all whilst satisfying none.

Overall, not worth the total time investment, follow other critics advice and skip the middle episodes, unless you have nothing better to do and looking to kill time.

I read the young-adult novel by E. Lockhart years ago and I was captured by its storytelling, characters and plot twists.

Watching the characters Cadence, Gat, Johnny and Mirren come to life and follow their summer in the series was really moving.

They did a great job portraying each character. The visuals were so overwhelming at times that I had to remind myself its just a series.

The last two episodes made me tear up and my heart race even though I knew what actually happened, but seeing it on screen was more brutal than reading it and imagining the scenes in my head.

I can really recommend watching the series and also to read the book!

The four major roles - Cady, Gat, Mirrin and Johnny are cast with actors that are too old to play 16-year-old teenagers. Shubham Maheshwari, who plays Gat, is 29. The actresses who play Cady and Mirrin are 23 and the actor who plays Johnny is 20. The carriage and maturity between a 16-year- old and a 23-year-old is very different. It shows.

The mothers are only 10 years older than their actor children. Again, it shows.

The other thing that is unrealistic is how money grubbing the three sister's characters are. If they hate each other so much, they wouldn't spend the summer's together. And not every person with money just wants money. The patriarch is also a horrible person, also all about money. I think the author or screenwriters are writing about a world they don't know or understand. Very shallow writing.

The scenery is pretty, the premise bizarre. Issues that could have been explored were ignored. Other issues - like grief, privilege and race were dealt with badly.

This show is not convincing on so many levels, so I say - it is a miss.

When I started watching this show, I had literally no expectations since the little I had heard about the book wasn't that good. But it was an excellent surprise! The mystery of what happened to the protagonist, her pain and confusion trying to remember the year before and her sweet romance was incredibly hooking. It took me basically one sitting to watch it all. Emily Alyn Lynd does an excellent job as a trauma survivor and is able to made me sympathize with her pain despite of my reality being as far as possible from a white rich girl. I liked most of the other actors, too, and my only reason to not giving 10 stars is the unnecessary length of the show giving the fact that there were not so much plot beside of what happened to the protagonist. But, in sum, I was completely hooked from the start and entirely devastated at the ending of it.

I'm usually really picky with TV shows. I can tell within a few minutes if something isn't for me. But this show grabbed me almost immediately. Maybe it was the visuals, or the divergent storyline, but something about it just clicked. The dynamic between the three Sinclair sisters was the highlight for me, their squabbles, their raw honesty, and the beautiful chaos of their lives. It felt authentic. Familiar, even reminiscent of Succession, but still fresh in its own way.

I expected the flashbacks to throw me off, and at first, I thought I was more drawn to their pasts, the lives they lived before the accident we knew little about. But as the episodes unfolded, I found myself just as invested in what had happened as I was in what was coming next. It surprised me how much I cared. It made perfect sense.