girlwheels

I think, somehow, I am not in the target audience and a thoroughly expected I would be. I try to like Jake, but he's too promiscuous. I will just be thinking he's an okay guy, and then he lies, or sleeps with someone else, mildly or majorly betraying someone, either a client or one of the women. If I wanted to be watching sexy TV, I'd watch reality TV, not detective story's where sex and violence are so close together. I don't like the, frankly, CRAZY relationship between Jake and the ex. I loathe both characters. The father's great. The father's girlfriend is great. The friends are great. But I don't find one of the main characters sympathetic, and that's a fatal flaw. Worse, the series is built around the relationship between Jake and his Dad. The dialogue is abrasive and I come away feeling sad. I know it's their "thing", that they don't mean it. Still, I don't enjoy watching people bicker who are supposed to be working together, especially when it negatively affects the detective work, and the detective work is what I'm there to see. It IS set in a beautiful place. I have gotten to episode six, season one, and I'm done.