All of the main characters are pretty awful, but none so cray-cray as the title character, Faith. She is a histrionic personality, a narcissistic personality, a drama-queens, and an extroverted craver of attention. She (the actress, really, I think) is very self-conscious about her mouth, which is understandable. And she makes the most frightful faces in her efforts to emote-- again I think that's due to the actor, and her lack of skill.
There are many critiques here that called the show "slow." I've watched all the episodes on Acorn now, taking me through season 3, episode 2, where it has slowed down considerable, much more then previous episodes. Also, reviewers complain of the music. I quite liked the opening song of most of the episodes, but now there are too many new songs that are not nearly as good as that one, and they serve as relentless dirges in the later episodes.
It is a woman-centric show which I would call a soap opera at this point. I started watching it thinking it was a crime drama. But there are too many women in it, too much weepy self-obsession. I am a woman, myself, but this show typifies what I dislike most about women. The histrionics, the attention-craving-- Oh, and the way Faith is always trying to get her kids worked up, to get a rise out of them, be it crawling on the floor, yelping "happy" yelps, "loving" them too much, and going way overboard, always and ALL. THE. TIME.
Now that I'm well into season 3, this is a show about a mentally ill woman. It's like Dicte, another show about a mentally ill title-character woman, and the weird thing about both shows is that the makers of the shows believe in their character-- believe she is a strong, capable woman, who is drop-dead gorgeous, who knows what's best for everyone around her-- just facing long odds in the travails of her life. But she causes most of the travails with her psychosis! She is out of control, even when alone staring into the mirror, or swiping lipstick across her mammoth lips while sneering-- at nobody! She's a wacko.
There are many critiques here that called the show "slow." I've watched all the episodes on Acorn now, taking me through season 3, episode 2, where it has slowed down considerable, much more then previous episodes. Also, reviewers complain of the music. I quite liked the opening song of most of the episodes, but now there are too many new songs that are not nearly as good as that one, and they serve as relentless dirges in the later episodes.
It is a woman-centric show which I would call a soap opera at this point. I started watching it thinking it was a crime drama. But there are too many women in it, too much weepy self-obsession. I am a woman, myself, but this show typifies what I dislike most about women. The histrionics, the attention-craving-- Oh, and the way Faith is always trying to get her kids worked up, to get a rise out of them, be it crawling on the floor, yelping "happy" yelps, "loving" them too much, and going way overboard, always and ALL. THE. TIME.
Now that I'm well into season 3, this is a show about a mentally ill woman. It's like Dicte, another show about a mentally ill title-character woman, and the weird thing about both shows is that the makers of the shows believe in their character-- believe she is a strong, capable woman, who is drop-dead gorgeous, who knows what's best for everyone around her-- just facing long odds in the travails of her life. But she causes most of the travails with her psychosis! She is out of control, even when alone staring into the mirror, or swiping lipstick across her mammoth lips while sneering-- at nobody! She's a wacko.