Poisoned in Paradise: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Another Martha's Vineyard story filmed in Canada and with the same weak cast of regulars.

Absolutely idiotic that this retired cop (Jesse Metcalfe) runs around the island with the lame female doctor in tow demanding to see bank records, personal information, arresting people, harassing people, chasing people etc when he has ZERO authority to do so. The island's chief cop (and doctor's daddy) shares all kinds of privileged information with these two. No one every says a word. It's all illegal and their cases would never stand up in court.

Ditto the female doctor who blabs all sorts of information about patients, autopsies, test results, etc. And never seems to work for more than an hour at a time. She spends all her time chasing after Metcalfe.

Oh and maybe import some shaving equipment over to the Vineyard. It seems none of the young men ever shave.

The story could have been a good one, but the acting (or the directing?) was off, seemed to me to have overacting, be unnatural. The filming location was pretty obvious that it is not really Martha's Vineyard.

Story is pretty standard Hallmark. But why don't the people making these films just listen to the unnecessary LOUD music before turning the finished product loose on the public. Sometimes it is so loud you can't hear the dialog.

This is a harmless little movie that doesn't offend, but geez, it's goofy.

Martha's Vineyard is an island that currently has 6 individual towns, each with its own police department. Those six towns and a collection of other islands which makes up the seventh town compromise Dukes County. I'm grateful the people who made this, and presumably the others in this series seemed to know this, because then the local law enforcement would be a Sheriff. Why do so many people in Hollywood think anything beyond a large city HAS to a sheriff?

Anyway. The acting is ok, nothing award worthy and the script is about as exciting and riveting as... it's not. And there's no question, the civilians getting away with all sorts of questionable actions while consulting/aiding/investigating with the police is getting tired. But it's a tried and true formula that isn't going anywhere. And the retired Boston cop is off the job due to a career ending injury? Seems pretty healthy. Why not get on the Vineyard PD and do things LEGALLY!

And as for the scenery, the Vineyard mountains that are seen from time to time are so...so...They simply don't exist. The Vineyard has some nice hills, that's it.

Everyone so wrapped up here clothes wise. Did Jesse Metcalfe really dodge Chesapeake Shores for this? Mind you the money may be better for him in which case OK that is fair enough.

It is an OK story for a wet winters afternoon I guess but nothing outstanding. So record and save for then.