Stereotypical Hallmark (Let's add Acorn too.) cheap production, & seen many times before, borrowed script plots. Series checks all the public relation's selling points found in daytime soap for TV addicts as follows: Gender inclusion as one of the leads; romance w/eye candy actors (females usually blonde; males usiually a week's "manly" beard & tight t-shirt); personal issues to overcome; make-up is always perfect; clothing changes (never wrinkled) are frequent visual hooks; offbeat assistant researcher; crimes seldom seen; a cost saving meek capture of the least likely at the end.
Review of The Chronicle Mysteries
