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Does it get better?

posted 10 years ago by simcha42
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I just started watching this on Netflix, and I don't understand who the sympathetic characters are? Am I supposed to be rooting for the smarmy philanderer who wants to put all of the other businesses in the neighborhood out of business and the young shopgirl who is more devoted to said smarmy philanderer than her own uncle? Especially when - spoiler alert! - she could share her brilliant ideas with her uncle and help his business and build their shop together?

Because, if I am, I am clearly not the audience for this show.

[–] Tokarski 10 years ago

Yeah, I hear ya.....I just started watching it as well and I'm just kinda watching it for the ride.

[–] theocanada 10 years ago

It doesn't get better. It gets worse.

[–] scraplady8 10 years ago

The first is better than the second so no it doesn't.

[–] sylvhu4 9 years ago

If you watched the first season Denise did help her uncle. Business and the ideas to progress would have required money, which uncle didn't have and he had too much pride to accept much help.

[–] Lady_Orc 8 years ago

i'm only on episode 4 of season one but I am right there with you. Everyone is so unlikeable, career minded and/or manipulative in this show. It's not serious enough to be a real drama, and it's definitely not lighthearted enough to be a comedy of any sort. I dunno, I was hoping it would've been like the showrunner's previous show, "Lark Rise to Candleford", which had an excellent balance.

[–] suzannereilman 8 years ago

As a HUGE consumer of British/UK/Australian/PBS series/fare, I'm kn episode 5/season 1 and came here ALSO looking for answers to 'does this get better'?...I fear I too may be simply along for the ride now...'Moray's'creepy omnipresent whispering and 'Jonas'simply hovering about with his goofy book looking menacing for zero evident reason thus far are both very off-putting...I had hopes for this one...