My Life with the Walter Boys

I refuse to apologise for the fact that I finished this show within less than a week. Yes, the acting is average but who actually cares? Does no one want to watch mindless teen dramas anymore? Since when did we all start analysing TV shows that were clearly not made to showcase elite acting and plots as if they all have to be emmy nominated performances? Who ACTUALLY cares. If its watchable I'm going to be invested!!!!

I enjoyed it to keep it simple. It was addictive, easy to binge and I was invested. Just a shame that annoying alex kept coming back. I hope they play out the Jackie and Cole plot more in S3 instead of starving me.

One note- please someone stop Alex from smiling. It was incredibly disturbing.

Where's her inheritance?

Seems if I appointed someone a guardian, I would also leave money for her upkeep, especially if I were wealthy, and aware that the family are farmers.

The uncle has it, and is keeping it as leverage?

Is he the land developer trying to purchase their land?

Is he a good guy or a bad guy?

This really annoys and frustrates me, although I love the Walter parents a lot.

Not really sure that this deserves a second season.

Since I'm only on episode 9, maybe it's all addressed in ep 10?

Guess I should finish it all and come back to leave an additional review based on the whole of it.

This show had some potential after the first few episodes. I started watching and was like: "okay, nice story and lots of room to develop characters". I didn't expect most of them would turn out to be so annoying and predictable. Certain level of predictability is tolerable in these kinds of shows, but that level has been crossed IMO. Very disappointing altogether. No chemistry between the characters.

Alex is so annoying I started skipping scenes with him.

Cole is just simply too old to have any chemistry with Jackie, it's weird.

Will - seriously? Are we supposed to believe that Donna (sorry, Katherine) gave birth to him? Come on.

Whoever did casting here, please do better next time.

The only character I actually like at this point (8 ep) is Erin.

So a young teen girl with serious family trauma is placed with a family of boys. 2 of them start immediately making goo goo eyes at her. If my sons behaved with women and girls like either Alex and Cole do, they would get a massive talking to. The girl is in the care of two adults, who should be putting the brakes on their sons and having a word to Jackie too. The talk should be going along the lines of 'Don't poop in the nest'. And respect women. Firstly you have Alex, a squinty looking character with a slightly mean smile that doesn't reach his eyes. Giving off massive, passive aggressive incel "I'm not talking to you" sulky vibes, for the most part. Shudder- scary red flag that one. Then you have Cole who is a dishy looking man, who is a 'player', but seems more relatable and safe as a person with his career ups and downs. At least what you see is what you get- a player is a player. Problem is , he looks 28 years old and it is positively creepy he is chasing after Jackie. If you can look past those two extremely weird male characters, and poor parenting, then what you might find yourself enjoying is a mindless fluff piece that is entertaining enough.

I agree with the other reviewer, the whole entire time I was watching the show I kept on wondering why Jackie could not help out the Walter family with some money from her inheritance. Her Mom was supposedly successful in the fashion industry. There is no way her parents would not have made some kind of accommodations in case of an emergency. This made no sense and really took away from the believability of the story. I never read the book, so was not familiar with the story line or the characters. Some of the acting seemed rather stiff, I am not really sure if this show is worth a second season.