I give it 5 stars for Reece Witherspoon's performance. It was perfect. As for everything else about this show I effing HATED it. I had to force myself to finish it. I don't understand why Elena is disliked so much and villianized. From the very start Mia was resentful and rude towards her when Elena was trying to be nice to her. Elena tried so hard!! Mia was constantly lieing to everyone especially her beautiful daughter. Elena had her faults but nothing compared to Mia's!!! Mia even stole things from Elena's home. Mia acted jealous and resentful of the world. I loved Pearl at first but then she just became awful. She was so wrong to Moody and let Lexi use her just to feel like she was a part of the same life style as the Richardson's. Izzy was real and beautiful in every way. She just wanted to be seen and heard. I hate how EVERYTHING is constantly made about race. I don't think Elena looked at Mia as a poor black single mother. I think she saw an opportunity to help a single mother regardless of race. I think Mia was awful to everyone around her and used BEBE to get at Elena in some kind of way and still lost. She was sitting on that small fortune for so long and never once used any of it for her own daughter and herself and instead lost it all.
The other absolutely horrible thing about this show was Mia's ( Kerry Washington ) mouth and the way she moved her lips and showed her teeth was just scary and ugly as hell!!! What's wrong with it!!!!