Tis the Season to Be Irish

One of the first things established in the story is that Rose is a veteran of many flips and quite successful. That takes a couple of minutes. She then proceeds to make decisions that are completely stupid besides being warned by more than one person not to. But in arrogance she doubles down on stupidity. Then she reaps the fruit of her stupidity. Not just difficult but maddening. This makes absolutely no sense.

There are quite a few moments of Rose getting to know her new neighbors. Everyone but Sean seems to be friendly and welcoming. Sean goes back and forth between being just downright mean and somewhat welcoming. But for a while, he is not just mean, he is a dictator acting in what appears to be revenge. What he is doing would be criminal except with him being local and Rose foreign, she could never get justice.

I do not understand why she spends time with Sean, flirts with him and even lets him touch her. His tyranny miraculously disappears somewhere before the mid point. And they start to build a relationship just like none of it happened. At this point the story starts exploring Rose's deeper feelings. At one point she expresses an idea that sounds a lot like young people living for themselves with no thought of children. But she expresses other thoughts as well, so it's hard to define Rose. Possibly Rose can't define Rose. Fear of feeling trapped seems to be deeply seated and drives much of her story from that point. Fiona Gubelmann does a good job showing Rose's struggle.

For me this was two movies. One made me very angry and I would like to forget it. The other was more enjoyable. Taken together, I won't watch this again.