We have a woman in a posh house and rather dated taste in
lighting. She’s Cassie Nightengale and she’s getting new neighbours – Sam and
his son Nick (who doesn’t want to be there) who have decided to move in in the
middle of the night. She thinks new neighbours, personally I would have thought
thieves. She uses woo-woo to help them get in the house – aiding and abetting
their house breaking. Sam think she has a magic touch because this show is not
even slightly subtle it seems
She also responds “I think you already have” when he says
“I’ll see you around.” What does that even mean?
The next day she is being all domestic with an old man in
which they both run down a mind boggling array of people whose names I won’t
remember because the show hasn’t given me a reason to yet. From this I get that
he’s a grandfather, she’s a mother and a widow and her husband was police of
chief. She also doses your drinks with weird plant extracts so if you have
allergies you might not want to have tear with her.
She also has a daughter who is a melodramatic teenager who may have broken a record for contrived dialogue – she does establish that the old man is her grandfather so we’ve established the family unit. Mumsy serves her daughter what sounds and looks like a Pot Porritt. She may also be psychic. Or have caller-display.
Not satisfied with inflicting random herbs on her family,
Cassie also invites herself into the house of her new neighbours (Sam seems
oddly unperturbed with having a neighbour who doesn’t know how to knock) to
insist they also drink her drowned plant cuttings. Sam is in my camp when it
comes to strangers invading his home to inflict random plant products on me,
and opts for coffee. He’s not big into herbs, nor is he, as a doctor, big on
strange women deciding to lecture him on a healthy diet.
The estate agent thinks Sam won’t last long. With
neighbours like Cassie, nor would I.
Time for some more characters – the new police chief,
Derek (the last one being Cassie’s dead husband who I have decided was poisoned
by herbal concoctions and/or drown when he dared to say no to one). There’s
also a big dedication ceremony for the recently deceased Jake apparently being organised
by the world’s most annoying woman, Martha the Mayor. I judge this whole
community for electing this woman.
Now we need more characters – Brandon and Tara, husband
and wife whose marriage has hit some rocks due to some nebulous things he did.
At school daughter Grace and her friend Anthony discuss
new arrival Nick and how Grace totally won’t be all impressed by him. So love
interest is established, I guess. Grace continues to be psychic and runs into
Nick and it’s misunderstood hate at first sight so they’re definitely going to
be a couple. They talk later and Grace decides she hates him because he wants
to go back to New York. Definitely a couple.
Sam sets up his new medical centre with in a place that
only snows from one angle (bad continuity editor! Bad!). Cassie has stalked him
to this new location, she has a shop next door and uses random woo-woo to convince
a kestrel to leave his shop. Because kestrels often enter buildings. He also
finds that there isn’t a lot of demand for a doctor in the town because of
Cassie and her magic shop
He does have one potential patient – Steph, a woman who
has seen an unmarried doctor and is ready to hook him and reel him in. She
makes a point that Cassie has been single for a long time. Brandon appears to
tell everyone he should go. You just arrived man. Did you come in just so Steph
could tell us she owns a restaurant and that you’re in a band? Apparently so. I
think Brandon is Cassie’s son
The mayor has apparently lured Sam into town with a lot
of lies and exaggerations and continues to be an appallingly awful caricature.
She now decides she hates the doctor because he won’t crumble in front of her
so tries to acquire personal information illegally.
Old man George has a health scare (aha! Cassie’s poison
is kicking in!). Sam is concerned that the old man has blood pressure problems
and has decided to ignore his doctor’s medication and instead take herbal
medicine from someone with no apparent medical qualifications. George decides
he just doesn’t like doctors.
