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This series is ruined by Anna Paquin's terrible acting. It's not worth watching without subtitles because she garbles all her lines in an effort to get through them as fast as possible like a kid in a school play so you never know what she's said. It's hard to follow the plot because nearly all her lines are unintelligible. We're forever looking at each other, asking 'What?' It's a pretty big problem with a series that has a lot of dialogue. She very rarely changes her expression (pissed off/confused) and walks in a really weird way, just as she did in A Walk on the Moon (1999) when she played a truculent teen, stomping around with her arms off at a weird angle. This can be viewed as cute or charming in a child as she was then but is simply annoying and unlikely in an adult. I'm not convinced that she can act at all and the sad thing is that the characters she interacts with are giving it their all to no avail - their efforts are sucked into her vacuum. So kudos to Shawn Doyle, Billy MacLellan, Allen Leech et al for trying to raise her game with no luck at all. And a special mention to the girl who plays her daughter (Madison Ferguson) who handles their scenes together brilliantly. Plus the so-called cryptic notes are straight out of a bad soap.