This show got so many positive reviews that I decided to watch it all the way through. Even giving it plenty of latitude for being dated, this is dreadful -- trite, repetitive, slogging along for most of the show, mediocre acting, unintentional overacting, wild overuse of fake tears and pensive gazes into the distance... Stock stereotype characters, really low budget music, of which 3 songs are played over and over and over and over, crummy costumes, cheesy emotional scenes and caricature level tragedies.

You have your dimwitted, angelic hayseed ingenue, your handsome, emotionally damaged, indecisive male lead, TWO vindictive B*tches trying to undermine the hayseed, and a narcissistic, violent 2nd male. Add in an authority figure wedded to toxic traditionalism, and an evildoer, and I'm pretty sure you can write the script yourself, if you get a little drunk and morose.

I have to give a sincere warning if you are still considering watching it -- it goes downhill after the first episode and never gets better.