User Reviews

I suspect this production was made by people who are not from around here. Perhaps Australians or something. Because there is an oddness to the entire thing that sticks out for American audiencess. There are several scenes in the first three episodes that are downright disturbing and a few that you just think, no American would ever come up with this. So I can see how some viewers got turned off. That being said I am going to have to recommend it because, over all, it seems to be a very kind show.

The story starts with our heroine Amanda who thinks she has a good life. Her sister is grating and her mom is Leslie Ann Warren, nuff said, but today she is achieving her life goal... getting married in *just* the right ceremony in the countryside. As you do on lifetime, she finds out her finance is cheating on her. After a hiss fit of entitled millennial proportions she rides off on a bike in her wedding dress and comes upon a renaissance fair, which she mistakes for a theme wedding. After she correctly points out one of the quotes the actor uses is not from Richard the third, everyone takes note including the wildly kind and hot David Poland (Lucas Neff) and sweet (Delilah) Mary Hollis Inboden. After a day at the faire where everyone has been nicer to Amanda that anyone in her family or any of her friends, Amanda decides to stay and join the renaissance faire.

In the most positive way, so far, this is a very kind show. Amanda might sound like an entitled millennial but the character is kinder than that. As she goes along she learns a lot about her self that she needed to learn, such as she acts just like her mother trying to tear everyone down by pretending to be "helping" and truly seems to regret those actions. Delilah takes Amanda under her wing and when Amanda's mom is suggesting to her that she needs plastic surgery, Delilah comes up and says, I think you're beautiful... in such a genuinely nice way. Finally not sure if her and David will become a thing yet, I think he wisely realizes at the moment she is not for him, but I look forward to that playing out.

This is a great little comedy. It doesn't take things too seriously and is a nice light hearted watch.

Amanda finds herself needing to get away from her perfect wedding when she finds her fiance cheating on her with another woman. She ends up at a renaissance fair where she finds a group of oddball characters who take her under their wing and give her the friendship she finds she is lacking amongst her rich friends.

The first two episodes follow her as she tries to come to terms with her situation and her pre-conceived notion of those often found at such fairs. You also get a glimpse into what is in store as it turns out the woman her boyfriend cheated with also has links to the fair and she has a grudge to bear against Amanda !!

The characters are a great mix and the comedy is well written without being over the top or in your face. There are no horrible laugh tracks and there is enough action to keep you entertained for the duration of each episode. You meet a lonely and power hungry queen, a camp Shakespeare who doesn't know his own plays, a mud wrestling pauper, a buxom washerwoman with a heart of gold, a ditzy but kind couple, a man who likes his stick and a drunk preacher man amongst many others.

Enjoy the laughs and don't over analyse it - you won't be disappointed.

Well done. I have been a rennie since 1995. I started at games and now I am a merchant of note at one of the best festivals in the U.S. And I honestly feel they have got this right. Here is a cut and paste of my favourite scene thus far. (From ep1.) I think my favourite part so far is her first full day in the village, from the moment she says "Aye aye captain" thinking the words work, the music starts and she takes the map. Wandering through the village, a place that should never be part of her world, they got that so right. They have built her up as some one who would scoff at the environment, but it feels like with each step she appreciates what she sees just a bit more and evolves (gonna be a long journey though.) From psaltery to samurai to belly dancers, nothing historically correct but I can totally relate to the scenes. And they got the newbee look right. I have seen it often, from people I have met years back who could not believed they let themselves be dragged to a renn fest. I will be seeing those same people in just a few months in full apparel. I can watch this scene repeatedly. IMHO they definitely got it right.