Sunday:
Francesca Quinn, PI is on at 9pm ET on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Starring: Mallory Jansen & Dylan Bruce.
I TRIED to watch Francesca Quinn. It seemed like it might be good. But it was soooo convoluted, I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on.
It starts out with 20 minutes of flashbacks and "catching us up" on what's going on. . . As though we are watching Part 2 of a two-parter movie, only there never was a Part 1.
They thought telling us would be enough. Only there are too many people, too many relationships, too many backstories, present stories, histories, secrets, suspects. . .
I ended up going to the IMDB .com reviews to see if someone else could explain what the heck was going on. She actually explained how crazy and convoluted it was, and what I went through PERFECTLY!
"This starts with a *massive* amount of exposition. As in almost 30 minutes of flashbacks and voice overs with only a few brief scenes of dialogue mixed in. And yet once everything finally gets going, I still felt like I didn't know who the characters were. For example, the very first scene was about Frankie having a heart attack while jogging, then a newspaper says she resigned as superintendent. Thirty minutes later (and 2 hours later) I still had no idea what she was superintendent of and why the writers felt the need to give her a heart attack. What did that have to do with anything? We also are told how her high school sweetheart recently showed up back in town. Their meeting is cold. A minute later a newspaper headline announces they are getting married. A couple minutes later, their relationship is over because she was cheating on him. A few minutes after that, we are told her relationship with the guy she was cheating with, her police officer partner, is also over. We learn her father was chief of police and married to a killer, so he resigned. Her father's best friend, another police officer, was helping [a suspect.] There's no motivation given. It's all part of this mind boggling backstory. I've even left quite a bit out. . ."
Done. I know now, it wasn't just me who couldn't figure it all out. She saw exactly the same as what I saw. So, it's not like either of us missed something crucial that tied it all together. Not wasting any more time on this one.
Dad and I finished watching last night 
and thanks, Imzadi and PrincessShmoo, I look forward to watching it and will share once I do! Hope you both are having a good afternoon! 
Their season kicks off Nov 8.
While I am interested in seeing what the schedule will be for Christmas movies. I'm not quite ready to actually watch one. I'm still savoring the last several warm-ish days we still have left here in autumn. 
