All she had to do was observe Gavin and Liz to know that something was off. After a month, he's buying her jewelry, trips overseas, asking her to move in...restraining order much?! He also gave her daughter a really inappropriate gift (the guitar) seeing as how they didn't know him. He was so overbearing that I don't see how that one month was even blissful.
As typical for Lifetime, all the men are the worst thing ever, but it's overlooked how these women make crappy life choices. Nikki should have told Gavin to stop showing up at her house and her work whenever he wanted. I really did not like how they treated Dan, Anna's father and Liz's ex-husband. Going off no information and complete hearsay to keep him from his daughter. This actually made me sick. There's always some "protagonist" that injects their own opinions on someone they don't know and they get it wrong. It makes the lead much less sympathetic than I'm sure the writers intend them to be. And as usual, bad judgment gets innocents hurt.
I mean Nikki basically trusted Liz after no time at all. Just like she did Gavin. Meanwhile she's eavesdropping on all these arguments that Liz is having with everyone in her life. But like a dummy, Nikki shows terrible judgment and takes everything Liz says as gospel. I honestly cannot stand dumb protagonists. My level of acceptable naivete is Sandra Bullock in The Net. The only reason she's involved in any of this is due to her overly trusting nature. Did Liz deserve to be attacked and kidnapped? Of course not, but Nikki very clearly invited the drama of these people into her life after a day of being in town.
The twist of Liz giving Nikki conservatorship of Anna's inheritance? What? Why? Why are these women so clingy?
The lead actress was pretty bad and the deer in headlights look only added to her extreme gullibility. Liz, the friend reminded me of a mashup of Phylicia Rashad and Jasmine Guy. Gavin was a proper creep who again with terrible judgment went from creep to kidnapper and attempted murderer. I felt the most for Dan, Anna, and Brooke. They were the unlucky ones in this drama. The movie took quite a while to get going particularly since nothing here is a surprise. Literally nothing is surprising. Then in the climax Nikki doesn't even call the police while Gavin is doing his best Jack Torrance impression.
Not one of the better premieres but I finished it.
