Review: Its a Soap Opera
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
Not a well crafted story. The characters are mostly two dimensional - either in hate or in love - not much in-between. The interaction between Ashdon and Kaleb feels forced or manipulated most of the time, The sex scenes are not all that interesting. There are a few oddities, I guess you'd call them. One is the duvet, constantly in use in the bedroom. In lower Alabama, on days when it is so humid a short walk outside makes one damp with sweat, yet later in the bedroom, they're using the duvet. Not likely. The scene describing the repairs to the ceiling was just wrong, including Kaleb's reactions to the repairs. And then Lisa's British upbringing snuck into the story a bit. It was out of character to have someone from Los Angeles hoping that the rental car had a good sat nav, as though he'd suddenly developed a fondness for Brit slang. There were a couple of other Brit slang slips, such as the bacon sandwiches (at least she didn't say bacon butty). The plot followed the lines of a 1970's soap opera, only with gay characters. Each plot element was even more out of left field than the previous one, and the end it was just a bit of a train wreck. By the time I got there, I really didn't care what happened to whom. I was just tired.