Good enough for a season 2 renewal? Probably not. The initial idea was a great one. The follow through killed it, though. Especially bad was episode 1 - I was ready to call it quits right then but another reviewer here said to go on to episode 2 - it would get better. It did. It improved from really bad to mediocre. Subsequent episodes continued to improve but not enough.
I wasn't especially impressed with Arden Cho. Not enough spark there. I hadn't seen Dominic Sherwood since the Shadowhunters series where he spoke with an American accent and did a commendable job. Here he spoke with an accent sounding like a combo of South African and "proper" English together but with a little bit of American in there as well, even though his character (and Sherwood himself) hails from England. Aside from my being jarred whenever he spoke his lines, his acting, in my opinion, was faultless.
It seemed like the characters had so much to say - to cram so much within the span of an episode, especially noticeable in episode 1, that many of their lines were rattled off, often one character speaking the moment another finished. I think I missed half of what they were saying, but I think I got the gist of it.
The legal action was interesting. Not that I am familiar with the goings on in a law practice, but that part seemed believable and well presented.
As far as race and sexual identity, the show throws in some lessons for us here. Necessary? Maybe, but we're really here to enjoy watching a show where all races and creeds work well together as equals, not to be educated about the prevalence of bias and hatred. We know. We see enough of it in real life.
So, Partner Track is similar to the usual Hallmark romance but it's geared more to an audience with an interest in the workings of the legal profession, in this instance corporate law.
I'm up to episode 5. I'll keep watching until the end.
I wasn't especially impressed with Arden Cho. Not enough spark there. I hadn't seen Dominic Sherwood since the Shadowhunters series where he spoke with an American accent and did a commendable job. Here he spoke with an accent sounding like a combo of South African and "proper" English together but with a little bit of American in there as well, even though his character (and Sherwood himself) hails from England. Aside from my being jarred whenever he spoke his lines, his acting, in my opinion, was faultless.
It seemed like the characters had so much to say - to cram so much within the span of an episode, especially noticeable in episode 1, that many of their lines were rattled off, often one character speaking the moment another finished. I think I missed half of what they were saying, but I think I got the gist of it.
The legal action was interesting. Not that I am familiar with the goings on in a law practice, but that part seemed believable and well presented.
As far as race and sexual identity, the show throws in some lessons for us here. Necessary? Maybe, but we're really here to enjoy watching a show where all races and creeds work well together as equals, not to be educated about the prevalence of bias and hatred. We know. We see enough of it in real life.
So, Partner Track is similar to the usual Hallmark romance but it's geared more to an audience with an interest in the workings of the legal profession, in this instance corporate law.
I'm up to episode 5. I'll keep watching until the end.