Five episodes in five paragraphs
Sep. 10th, 2022 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What a week! I’m still bingeing Hart of Dixie. (I’ve watched up till 1.12 Mistresses and Misunderstandings.)
I do like the layering of all the main characters and the recurring citizens of Bluebell add richness. But they’re tryng too hard to make Bluebell zany. It’s no Stars Hollow.
We got flashbacks – some of which were plain weird – in the Christmas episode. Mainly I was struggling with the actress who played Andie McPhee being old enough to be Lemon’s mother. I also struggled with the idea of Lemon and George hanging out with Wade in high school.
I don’t like Lemon (Zoe can be a bitch, but she wasn’t pretending to be friends with the objects of her bitchiness) but Lemon is possibly the most compelling character. I really don’t think that Lemon and George ought to marry by this point. It’s tragic that Lemon is still trying to be that girl who wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps even down to being the wife of a professional man. I can sympathise with her in that her parents seem to have damaged her in all sorts of ways, both of them, (parents don’t come off well at all on this show.)
The whole ‘Bell/Belle’ initiation thing with Zoe where they made Zoe each Bell’s slave came close to acknowledging something the show has determinedly veered away from discussing. But, as an outsider, slavery is always one of the things I think of when I think about the American South, that and racism. But the show is all quirky small town Southern-flavoured virtues, one of our leads is black, and one of the town’s sheriffs is black and we’re not getting deep into that. Why, there’s nothing to get into there, nothin’ at all, because this was probably filmed in California.
I am buying into the ‘Oh, grow up, Wade’ narrative (although maybe his pining is getting to me too.)
I do like the layering of all the main characters and the recurring citizens of Bluebell add richness. But they’re tryng too hard to make Bluebell zany. It’s no Stars Hollow.
We got flashbacks – some of which were plain weird – in the Christmas episode. Mainly I was struggling with the actress who played Andie McPhee being old enough to be Lemon’s mother. I also struggled with the idea of Lemon and George hanging out with Wade in high school.
I don’t like Lemon (Zoe can be a bitch, but she wasn’t pretending to be friends with the objects of her bitchiness) but Lemon is possibly the most compelling character. I really don’t think that Lemon and George ought to marry by this point. It’s tragic that Lemon is still trying to be that girl who wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps even down to being the wife of a professional man. I can sympathise with her in that her parents seem to have damaged her in all sorts of ways, both of them, (parents don’t come off well at all on this show.)
The whole ‘Bell/Belle’ initiation thing with Zoe where they made Zoe each Bell’s slave came close to acknowledging something the show has determinedly veered away from discussing. But, as an outsider, slavery is always one of the things I think of when I think about the American South, that and racism. But the show is all quirky small town Southern-flavoured virtues, one of our leads is black, and one of the town’s sheriffs is black and we’re not getting deep into that. Why, there’s nothing to get into there, nothin’ at all, because this was probably filmed in California.
I am buying into the ‘Oh, grow up, Wade’ narrative (although maybe his pining is getting to me too.)