Season 1 was slow moving, but had potential. This was something most people (married or not) could relate to on so many levels: how to find happiness and fulfillment within our lives. We wake up one day and wonder how we got here - that this wasn't the life we imagined growing up. What do you do when you feel stuck or don't know what's missing in your life? These are universal issues at the core of all human beings.
In the beginning, I loved Neil's character with what happens at his job and on the plane, and discovering, (even through an atypical way of being a male prostitute), discovering what role he played in losing touch with his relationship with his wife, Grace.
Season 2 destroyed all potential. Only watched 3 episodes of season 3 so far, but the writing, the acting, the logic, and believability all hit rock bottom. It became an unrealistic soap opera.
In Season 2, Neil is compassionate with the women he is "escorting" and communicates well with them and wants to understand them. But with Grace, he remains a granite face, emotionless, and hardly says anything. And for a man that continually says he wants to get back together with Grace, he never once tells her he loves her.
For a man who wants to get back with his wife, at one of her most darkest moments (Grace learns he is opening an escort service to basically have sex repeatedly with lots of different women, which is understandably hard for her to grasp, PLUS Adrianna just handed them unexpected legal separation papers), Neil tells Grace he has to leave. He makes no apologies. Business is business and obviously comes before his relationship with his wife (that he keeps saying he longs for) and her feelings. (His actions and behaviors with her need some adjustments to make it more believable otherwise make him quit saying he wants to get back together with her)
Grace's behavior is just as ridiculous. After what Adrianna did (playing her the fool), it is completely unbelievable Grace would go to Adrianna's to stay. That made no sense. Has she no other friends or family?
And don't get me started on the 911 call in episode 1. The surveillance cameras would be time-stamped, showing how long they waited until calling the police, also showing they called Adrianna first (why oh why would you call someone else before the police, hmmm?) Did the police wonder why Adrianna was there?
With better writing, the show could have explored open marriages and other unconventional lifestyles. With better writing, this show could have held its own on its intrinsic value to connect to all human beings and reached a broader audience.
Honestly, once all sexual concepts are explored in the show, not sure where else the plot can go. I anticipate the show being canceled after this season.
On a personal note, I don't know what it is about the guy who plays Neil - either he can't act or by trying to bury his Australian accent, his face remains rigid and void of most human expressions, which makes his statements about things seem even less believable.
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