Yes, it's typical and formulaic, but the actors do a good with the less-than-excellent writing. If you accept for the lightweight rimp that it is (essentially), you can find enough enjoyment.
A big problem is that the writers and directors entend the romantic tension - which actually develops nicely in the beginning - far too long. The characters become annoying and inconsistent with how they've been portrayed - how viewers have come to know them - as they make the same incredibly stupid mistakes again and again. The crime, here, is how the writers, directors and producers treat their audience. The contrivances, improbabilities and authorial manipulations become worse and worse, and insult as well as frustrate loyal fans.
Each episode of the 2nd season gets worse and worse. More and more characters do stupid things. Then, at the end of the season, the chaos that has obviously come to rule the producers and writers shows itself in full bloom as they pull out the worst off-the-shelf contrivance thus far in the series. And, it comes in literally the last minute of the 2nd season. So, viewers are left with an even greater sense of betrayal by the producers and writers, and will have to wait and unknown period of time to find out if the series will return, and if so, when.
It took me a couple episodes to accept Under the Vines on its own terms, and I enjoyed it, mostly, up to the 3rd episode, or so, of the 2nd season. It just gets worse and worse and worse. The writers seem to have nothing to offer; they recycle various off-the-shelf tripe/ dramady tripe, and lose any sense of real direction.
Too bad. This could have been getting better, instead of getting worse.
A big problem is that the writers and directors entend the romantic tension - which actually develops nicely in the beginning - far too long. The characters become annoying and inconsistent with how they've been portrayed - how viewers have come to know them - as they make the same incredibly stupid mistakes again and again. The crime, here, is how the writers, directors and producers treat their audience. The contrivances, improbabilities and authorial manipulations become worse and worse, and insult as well as frustrate loyal fans.
Each episode of the 2nd season gets worse and worse. More and more characters do stupid things. Then, at the end of the season, the chaos that has obviously come to rule the producers and writers shows itself in full bloom as they pull out the worst off-the-shelf contrivance thus far in the series. And, it comes in literally the last minute of the 2nd season. So, viewers are left with an even greater sense of betrayal by the producers and writers, and will have to wait and unknown period of time to find out if the series will return, and if so, when.
It took me a couple episodes to accept Under the Vines on its own terms, and I enjoyed it, mostly, up to the 3rd episode, or so, of the 2nd season. It just gets worse and worse and worse. The writers seem to have nothing to offer; they recycle various off-the-shelf tripe/ dramady tripe, and lose any sense of real direction.
Too bad. This could have been getting better, instead of getting worse.