Love on the Vines (2017 TV Movie)
4/10
Waiting
25 March 2021
Another split inheritance story. In this one, the two beneficiaries are ex's. But there is another romance story going, and the man's dad is trying to break that one up. There's a third even smaller story about the restaurant manager trying to expand her business while her mother, the owner, meddles.

Nothing much is happening in any of the stories. There are a bunch of attempts by the writers to keep putting Seth and Diana together. I saw zero chemistry between Margo Harshman and Steve Talley. It took literally a third of the commercial broadcast time before they stopped sniping at one another. Then the sniping stopped so quickly. After that the actors seemed like they were acting at each other rather than connecting. The dialogue was pedestrian. Even the seductive looks in the vineyard didn't seem real. All in all, this didn't seem like much of a romance which I thought was the point of the movie thanks to the title. They aren't connecting and there's just too much else going on.

It also seemed like Harshman displayed too little emotion.

There is a ridiculous scene toward the end where Diana proves that she is out of her league as a lawyer since she is so naïve. "Does it get easier?" This is another movie where the personality displayed within the story by a character is not consistent with what she would have had to be to get where she was.

Jack Wagner is actually kind of sneaky as the dad, even if he is overly controlling of his son. He's a little more than a one dimensional villain.

I'd say there was a surprise at the end, but it wasn't.
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