It kills me to have to say this, because I have loved some of the actors on this show for decades, but are you guys serious? Who is awarding all these awards and 7.2 rating? What am I missing?
This show features several heavy hitters of daytime TV royalty but even they aren't enough to save it. My problem isn't the melodrama and far-fetched plots because it's clearly a guilty-pleasure show. I can live with the really weird production quality because it's a web series. But the acting from everyone except the established soap stars is painfully cringeworthy and unwatchable, the dialog is painfully cringeworthy and unwatchable, and the pacing is actually physically frustrating. And that's coming from someone who loves Lifetime movies.
Specific criticisms: most of the young actors chew every scene they're in, the pacing/plot is all over the place, and the casting choices are...weird (Charles Shaughnessy as a police CAPTAIN? I mean, I LOVE this man but he's about 20 years older than the average police captain...I would know, I'm in law enforcement and unchecked details like this are laughable to us). One main character is blond in the first episode and then by episode 2, has red hair, but since we haven't gotten to know her yet, I didn't recognize her as a redhead and spent the whole episode wondering who the heck that was. Just weird production decisions like that that take one out of the story.
I wanted to see this show because I love Matthew Ashford but at 7 episodes in, I've found that skipping all the scenes except the ones he's in makes the show more palatable. And that really tells you all you need to know.
