North Shore: Hôtel du Pacifique

i loved the show. the premiere wasn't so great but the second episode definitely caught my attention especially with Amanda joining the cast! she did a great job and she is incredibly talented and GORGOUSE! good job on the cast! they are all very talented. and all the guys on there are SO fine! like Corey,Jason,Jay, and KRIS! oh but this show is one of the best summer shows! i really enjoyed the second and third episodes and i know i will enjoy the rest of them! but i really hope Amanda stays on the OC because i love her character Hailey! i also love her character Tessa on here but most people will watch OC more then North shore so i would rather have Amanda on The OC, but okay well great show!

The first couple episodes may have been a bit awkward to watch. The cast and crew seem to be in their groove now. The writing is good and the stories are fun to watch. All the cast members are likable in their roles and make the characters believable. The background music is a great addition and done artistically, not too loud or no dead spots. If the cast is beautiful, why not emphasize that with close ups. Good camera work with nice shots of the island's sun, sand and blue sky, something missing from all the other shows. It's good to see Hawaii's beauty in the back drop of a little drama and life at a hotel. May be considered a replacement of "friends" in paradise. Is Amanda Righetti as Tessa part of the group? She should be written in as a permanent part. Another idea, James Remar should be written in as a bit mean, shady, opposition to the group, not always but half the time. He seems a little uncomfortable being so nice and hospitable as Vincent Colville. Some may disagree, but a good show to watch.

It began like a new good show: great cast, good music, beautiful places and good stories. It was so perfect to be true and the story of the workers of a big hotel of Hawaii soon change to the worst opera of the TV (something with a lot in common with Venezuelan "telenovelas") with very bad guys working beautiful and ambitious women who try to win the love of the good main character in a bad way.

If you watch the firsts episodes and, after that, the last ones, you can find two shows: the first: good in every aspect the second: something completely different with the same cast and music in the same place a real freak show without the magic of the first show. What happen?, that's the big mystery (like the last episodes of Felicity).

FOX has done it again! The network famous for overhauling or even cancelling shows before they premiere has outdone itself this time. The original pilot that sold this show to FOX is not the episode we just watched. The pilot had a different (and much better) cast and was supposed to be a drama about the dynamics between the staff and guests at an upscale Hawaiian hotel. Then suddenly the dim 10-watt bulb that illuminates the FOX programming office flickered to life: Hey, we're FOX, it's summer! Let's make it a soap opera and maybe we'll get lucky like with "The O.C." Sorry, but "O.C." is state of the art and "North Shore" is stale and tired. Then FOX tried to promote their new show saying it was "The O.C. for the older, more sophisticated viewer" and it was the "Melrose Place" to the O.C.s "90210". What were they thinking under that 10-watt bulb? "The O.C." is witty and smart, charming, and classy. "North Shore" is none of that. "Melrose Place" was "Masterpiece Theatre" compared to N.S. All of the actors on Melrose and O.C. could give badly needed acting lessons to the cast of N.S. "North Shore" is slow, badly written, badly acted by some of the cast, and a complete disappointment. They ended up with "Baywatch" on FOX. Brooke Burns and Jason Momoa were actually "Baywatch" cast members. The lifeguard has bleached blonde hair and six-pack abs..just like well, you get the picture. Worst of all are Burns, who cannot act, and has a toothy smile that would shame the grill of a '58 Buick, and the horribly miscast James Remar. Remar obviously was added to play the older authority figure to all the youngsters just like David Hasselhoff on yes..."Baywatch" again. But he gave an eerie, weird take to his character like the hotel was in a "Twilight Zone" episode. His character is totally unlikable. So once again FOX has managed to mismanage a new show. The winners in all of this are the lucky former cast members from the original pilot who have now escaped this mess. The losers are the viewers and the current cast members. FOX will be a loser too if "North Shore" is swept away by a tsunami of viewer rejections....as it should rightfully be.

Many people missed out on this show. The thing is that critics analyst everything. It's entertainment.. and really in the end.. that's more than enough. It had a HOT CAST. Have you seen the people in it. Some include Brooke Burns, Amanda Righetti, Corey Sevier, Jay k. Johnson. It's set in Hawaii and the scenes are just amazing. It's very clear and it just feels so good to look at. One of my favorite shows including Fastlane and Skin.

Check out the theme song... Home in Paradise-- Unwritten Law Another hot song... Slide Along Side--Shifty.

Any questions.. i'll be more than happy to help.. hit me up celiachung2@hotmail.com