SummaryAfter her dreams to follow in the footsteps of her big-city heart surgeon father are crushed, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) accepts an offer to work in a small clinic in Bluebell, Alabama.
SummaryAfter her dreams to follow in the footsteps of her big-city heart surgeon father are crushed, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) accepts an offer to work in a small clinic in Bluebell, Alabama.
This show, which reunites the undeniably charming Bilson with The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz, is a goodie that mixes heartstring-tugging moments with lines like this: "There it is. Rock bottom. I just played 'Dixie' with my butt."
It's a good cast, and Porter in particular works very well with Bilson. The show just needs to find a way to transcend both formula and Southern stereotypes.
Having grown up in the Deep South, and experiencing the nostalgia of the South, I love the romanticism of this show. If you are from somewhere else in the country, and are watching this show, it can come off cheesy and a bit fake. But, for a true small town person, there are so many aspects of the show that are relate able. Having dreamed of living in Los Angeles, coming from a small town in Texas outside of Houston, i moved there for college with the expectation that my life would all of a sudden come together in the City of Angels....well I did not. I loved the weather, but everything else made me feel like I wanted to go home. I was in love with the idea of a place, and all of the superficial aspects, but it never really stuck. There is something about returning to the slow pace of life where your known and feel love, and that is why this show if taken in context is stellar. Yeah there might not be A-list people/acting, but in the heart of it all...this show is a solid single person, couple, or family break from a media full of useless consumption, empty promises, and a group humor. Let this show be exactly what it is, a node to the nostalgia of the South. We all like to escape when watching television, so do exactly that. Take the corks, props, characters, and situations for exactly what they are.
I absolutely love this show. It's so entertaining. I would highly recommend it. You will just end up falling in love with the characters and watching it almost every night of the week! It's a wonderful romance TV show. I really hope they make a season 5. So, make some good reviews for this awesome show!
I did catch enough of "Hart of Dixie" to tell it's formula absurdity for the "princess" demographic of magical thinkers who now imagine being lifesaving doctors as well as rescued royals.
There are not a lot of non "reality" shows that have southern roots. This is a fun, romantic with just the right amount of drama show. I really hope they keep it. It would be such a shame to lose such a great show on the lineup with such a unique story line.
There are a lot of good things about this show. The main detractor is that they don't seem to have figured out how to actually make us LIKE Zoe. In the current uber-competitive PTTV world, there isn't a lot of room for mistakes.
I was hoping for another quirky show set in a small town. I got a show in a small town but without the quirky.
This is no Gilmore Girls or Northern Exposure. The writing is bad and Rachel, as much as I loved her in the OC is playing pretty much the same type of character here, **** is a Doctor which really doesn't work.
I absolutely hate this show. It's a normal teen drama, but set in a small town; really nothing special. The setting annoys me very much. Although I will say the title is clever.
I highly recommend not wasting one's time with this show. To be fair I have only watched the pilot myself so I can't swear it won't get better, but it didn't give any signs it could and one hour was an hour too much invested in this (and that from someone who watches several dozen hours of tv a week). If you want to see a fish-out-of-water story about a New York City doctor adjusting to life in a quirky small town you would be better served to rent/buy/stream Northern Exposure. This is my first review here btw so I'm not sure what constitutes a "spoiler" per se but I don't directly explain any events below so I didn't mark the article for spoilers but if you are especially sensitive to even oblique references to the sorts of things that might happen in the pilot and are intent on watching this show, please stop reading here just in case; I'm writing this to try to save you an hour, not to ruin anything for you (thanks/sorry!).
The characters are shallow caricatures, character development is forced and awkward (the only vaguely medical operation in the premiere leads immediately two eureka moments from both the main character and the patient where they suddenly change life-long attitudes and behaviors without any explanation), though the overwhelmingly mercurial caprice of the characters might be exactly the catalyst for drama poor writing needs to keep things "interesting" (f.e. they create several situations in just the first hour that might intrigue people who are really into guessing who's going to date whom which is not my cup of tea).
If they intended this to be a carefree heartwarming hour (which I can only assume from the lack of substance) they missed the mark on many counts and should have had a more sympathetic main character (or ideally the majority of the cast), a positive tone, and ideally some witty dialogue or humor (the only thing that I think was meant to be a joke relies on the viewer to actually assume the real Burt Reynolds would be randomly wandering an Alabama swamp on someone else's land in the middle of the night on a regular basis; if you don't accept that premise on its face, you won't be surprised and chuckle when it's proven false!).