Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Blistering performances.

I have not been able to enjoy this series at all, and this is another demonstration of why. Holly Peete and Rick Fox cannot act in dramatic roles. Both are good at giving each other warm knowing looks, but that's about it. Their acting is shallow and passionless. Holly has a gun pointed at her and her reaction is on par with a late breakfast. Boring, dull and no emotion. Heck if I had a gun pointed at me I would at least my eyebrows in alarm. With Holly, nothing. Sorry, but Holly cannot act.Ian Fox is not able to portray depth either. HIs lines are punishingly few, so one wonders what the producers expect him to do with them. Either way, the result is a flat, dull character. As they gave his character a family member to live with him, perhaps that will bring his character out of a coma.The only actors with some life are Karen Robinson as the aunt, the man who plays the character with her and the dog.I couldn't make it through. I finally fast forwarded it to the end and then happily ended my pain.

Holly Robinson Peete is having on her local station cooking show celebrity chef Chad Willet. Willet is kind of a Wolfgang Puck on steroids. Great chef that he is he is also one arrogant egotistical piece of work.Willet also has a bit of scandal trailing him, he was implicated in another murder years ago but was acquitted. Now all the scandal hounds are smelling blood in the water.Peete has every reason to see this one gutted and fried, Willet plans to open up a restaurant in competition with her's. But she thinks him innocent of a new murder which has her ex-husband Rick Fox looking hard at Willet as the doer. No more will I say other than what Peete uncovers nearly gets her killed as well. I will say there's someone out there with one nasty grudge against our bad boy celebrity chef.Hallmark mystery fans will like this one.