Dreadful romantic comedy drama with some of the least appealing characters in recent memory. Gennifer Goodwin, normally very likeable, is shot unflatteringly and is dull as the less attractive woman in love with her best friend’s (Kate Hudon’s) fiancée (Colin Egglestone, an appalling ken Doll actor). That plot is a bit racy – cheaters and betrayers don’t normally make protagonists in a rom com, although they do that sort of story all the time in serial drama – but everything feels wrong: the forced humour, the over the top acting, the fact every single character is a caricature, the air of unreality about it all. The majority of characters are cartoons, no one feels like they live in the real world; it improved a little bit towards the end when they drop all attempts at humour and went with straight soap, but it was still pretty appalling. I was confused why Hudson and John Kasinski (the best in a shocking cast) agreed to appear in it but there’s a bit at the end where they threaten a sequel about their characters.
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