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Jane Seymour was the reason I initially watched and then stuck through this. She plays a woman who relishes her life as a mistress, only having relationships with married men, she then finds her feelings tested by an old friend but can't admit it.

Not a great movie, on a made for T.V/ Hallmarkish sort of style & budget, it was nice to see a woman Jane's age, with...gasp... wrinkles in a romance, she's still beautiful. There are some kinda gross love scenes, even disregarding the age factor that had way too much open mouthed kissing, Jane looked like she was going to eat Parker Stevenson at one point, I had too look away.

In a very long, long while. Terrible - walk away, walk away.

I thought this was a very circumspective love story with a most reasonable if not believable plot. I was caught off guard by William Shockley being one of Veronica's love interest's and couldn't place him at first then BINGO, "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" and the crazy saloon keeper, Hank. -So to see him in this dynamic opposite with Jane Seymour as a love interest was rather provocative. While the movie was a bit slow? I totally understand the relationships including the well played gay couple who added great interest to Veronica's life if not that of Brandon. Being in "the vicinity" of Jane Seymour's peer group? I totally and completely found many of her traits identifiable and realistic. Though I felt Brandon was too much a "cut above" the average man to be as enlightened as he was. I'm actually very impressed with many of the made for TV movies and others that JS has played in - in the past decade. She was also good in her Netflix role of the "Kominsky Method" of late. I hope she continues on as she is as a beautiful actress with a real style and class that few continue to possess in her/my age group. Very enjoyable movie; not "earth shaking" but most definitely, thought provoking.

The movie is reasonably well made but it falls well short of being a good movie. It's basically a relationship drama about an aging woman who practices polyamory meaning she pursues multiple sexual relationships concurrently and ensuring each relationship stays superficial enough to avoid strings being attached. It sounds interesting enough in theory but the reality disappoints because, mainly the characters are not compelling enough to make the viewer really care. Date one man or date 10, sorry I just can't be bothered to concern myself. It might be different if the female lead was someone I might like to date. But she's just an older lady without much really going for her. She's not unattractive per se, but I just don't see any sizzle and I think most men would agree. I can't say much for the other characters either. If you just wanted something on to waste some time, this could work. But if you're expecting more, just pass on this.

Gosh! Who on earth scores this so highly??

It's an interesting concept - a serial mistress wanting no commitments - but it's cliched, a bit predictable and the plot develops through 'logical argument' rather than character drives.

Ok, one at a time...

Cliched - ok, we'll give it the Rom cliche - girl meets boy, girl loses boy - girl may or may not get boy back (so as to avoid any spoilers) - but she works in a bookshop - or ows it or part owns it, it's not clear - and one of her best friends also works there (or owns it) and is gay. Ring any bells? All the meetings she has are in swanky restaurants or hotels. That defines a type of Chic Lit fiction which perhaps this is.

A bit predictable. After the initial intro you know where it's heading. As is often the case with RomComs (altho this is a RomDrama) but there were plenty of opportunities to step off the path a bit.

Plot development. Ok, this is the worst thing and it appears in many, many American series. It's where the author wants a relationship to change and they do it by constructing a 'logical' (or sometimes not so logical) argument between the characters. Probably not the first example, but I became increasingly aware of the technique in The Arrow series and then it seemed to pop up everywhere. There's a lot of talking in the movie, and a lot of these arguments.

Other than that... :-)

Well, I love Jane Seymour but she's no spring chicken. In fact she's 66 and she's playing a 40-something. I hope to god she's not supposed to be a 30-something. Hey, maybe she's a 50-something. That would make more sense but I feel the character is def in her 40s. Having said that she looks terrific and very foxy!

Parker Stevenson is a year younger but he looks his age so we have a 40-something with a 60-something. Nothing wrong with that particularly but he's also dating a definitie 30-ish woman. Like it or not, such age differences do matter and do need to be discussed in a relationship but it's not mentioned here when so many other things are.

Anyway, the movie didn't quite hang together for me. Nor for most of the reviewers, so who's giving it these high score?

It might work for you, but don't expect too much.