This TV show is a prime example of how a good premise with solid bones can be turned to mush in the wrong hands. This series has two major flaws: the bad casting and acting (of most actors, though not all); and the way out there stupidity and worn out clichés injected at every turn. The daughter is the most miscast actor. I hate to criticize a child, but there are lots of naturally gifted child actors out there, and she's definitely not one of them. Her overacting is so severe, that you feel you're in an elementary school play with children shouting their serious lines while smiling at the corners of their mouths. Additionally, as other reviewers have pointed out, she takes way too much screen time, which skyrockets the unpleasantness and annoyance into the stratosphere. I found Paula Patton, the mother, to be great in the first episode, but not surprising to me, she gets worse. You can't be surrounded by bad acting and have it affect your own performance. The writing is full of downright stupidity. There is no believable or legitimate reason for most reactions. For example, if a character heard glass breaking inside the house, the normal, common sense reaction would be to investigate the sound. In this show, the character would ignore it and turn on the stereo at full blast. Almost every action and decision the characters take is so utterly dumb, you just can't stomach any more of it. Which is why very few people who started watching the first episode will still be watching when the last episode airs.
Review of Somewhere Between
