Monday, June 4, 2007

Hidden Palms 1x01


Hm..What can I say? It’s just a new teen-soap about a troublemaker boy and his new home, Palm Springs. My first reaction: It’s like Desperate Housewives, The O.C. and maybe Dawson’s Creek mixed into one, great show.
Story: Johnny Miller, after his father suicide, moves with his mother and stepfather to a new and very rich neighbourhood, Palm Springs. Like Ryan from The O.C., Johnny will soon realize that there are a lot of secrets and gossips under the beautiful palm trees. But not just Palm Springs isn’t innocent, our guy, Johnny has a very dark past, because he has spent twelve months in rehab because of drug and alcohol problems. In Palm Springs, the Miller kid meets some very interesting person and finds true love, but an other girl also wants to be Johnny’s new girlfriend, and this makes a hard confrontation. Besides, everybody has some secret in her/his closet, for example a very sexy threesome with the gardener (check this out, this was a nice shot). So, this is an average teen-soap story, aired by The CW Television Network. Note: Hidden Palms has been given an 8 episodes order by the network.
Opinion: Probably this show is going to be the secret weapon of The CW, but there is an interesting question for me in this whole Hidden Palms story. This „teen troublemaker in the rich neighborhood” thing is not boring for now? For me, it is. The producers try to keep the mysterious feeling because there is no other way to keep the interest. For example, the dark secret of Eddie’s death is will be a very exciting storyline, but it have to be a very good solution or the whole story sucks. If they can mix the secrets, the hot girls and the filthy housewives thing into one great show, Hidden Palms is going to be great. For the O.C. fans, maybe is also very interesting to see Taylor Handley (now Johnny, played Oliver in O.C.) in a very new role and Michael Cassidy (now Cliff, played Zach in O.C.) with this devil smile on his face. On the other hand, I think there are too much characters in Hidden Palms, which is very boring because it’s hard to remember the names of every character. Is this the part of a strategy to maintain the possibility to open new storylines? Who knows?
Summary: After O.C., One Tree Hill or the legendary Dawson’s Creek, teens want a new and exciting teen-soap, maybe it will be Hidden Palms. And there is chance for the success because Hidden Palms is a good show.

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