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Yet again Hallmark uses a foreign film location in an attempt to overcome a weak storyline. Andrew Walker and Brittnay Bristow are solid and have a great track record in past Hallmark movies. As actors, it is simply impossible to overcome a bad storyline or script. The accountabity for these issues are the of Hallmark Media's Executive Offices. In the last two years approximately 60% of their movie production has not been as good as the old Hallmark standards.

Sometimes doing things different does not mean they are better. Hallmark is now in the business of making Lifetime Movie Network gravity movies. There are already several networks that do that. Since Hallmark has left the family values / rom-com segment, they will be replaced by another network and become 'homeless'.

I know screen writers always claim writing for film is different than for a book. It has something to do with creative freedom and mainstream film-maker thoughts regarding how series and films are written. But....there are some very simple things that are critical in representing a charactor such as Joe Pickett. For Joe Pickett they should have selected a real Western Style Hat & made his character as masculine as in the book.

So liberties taken by screen writers for this series are simply wrong!

Also there should be a minimum of fourteen episodes in a season if the script is based on two books...

These second rate writers took a 3 episode storyline and stretched it to almost 2 seasons. This storyline was shallow, repittitive and trite. I am watching one more episode and if I hear the word Elisha, this program will be dead to me.

The nightmare was compounded by forcing us to watch a crossover to the FBI Rookie which is nothing more than a daytime soap opera. There is no solid storyline, character development is based on emotional tripe and the main actress Simone acts more like a high school counselor than an FBI agent.

The writers for both shows should be fired and banned from any productions in the future.