I love the show in many ways. The actors playing Sam, Nick and Abigail are good. But the other title characters' acting is very cartoonish. I like Cassie but her constant dialogue of one liner sayings is bad writing and unnatural. She's a good actor but the writing is terrible. The acting by the Mayor, Grace and the Bistro owner is more like something for a children's program and is way over the top and unnatural. Their scenes are hard to watch. Still, the show is sweet in many ways. I like Cassie and Sam's relationship. Grace's acting gets a little better toward the 5th season. If the show had had better writing it could have actually been a lot better. But stories were sweet so it worked ok.