I still like the series and will persevere. Some of the above caught the eye of a few other reviewers.
But this isn't what I was expecting him to deal with. The husband is a great problem-solver (however), a nice easy-going guy - he'll patch things up. She isn't believed - and now, we have 2 difficult problems instead of one. Soon, in a following episode, we have ANOTHER problem when a nearby plantation owner makes subtle advances on the wife in this little caper, but she fails to inform her husband, leaving HIS daughter to inform him. The writers seem to be sadly lacking in how 'regression' can spoil a series. Once everyone in a blended family understands that they are stuck on this desert isle together with no escape, they will quit whining and get on with the job of survival. There is husband and wife - the kids in the brood are a STAGE of the marriage - they are NOT the reason for the marriage. Let me tell you how this works in real life: There is NO 'my family, my kids' - there is only OUR FAMILY. However, in the next episode, the kids cross over certain lines and resolve to depart (again) after outbursts of anger, dredging up hurt feelings and sadness we just got over. Such a situation is awkward enough to resolve in real life, but we do get there in this episode. In this case, the 'step' family almost breaks up when 'Daddy' of the 2 kids flies in with his new juvenile-looking chickie to stake a claim to his offspring. And the early episodes 'regress' - by which we mean, the characters get over a hurdle, and then climb back over it to repeat the process. Some of the family conflicts are needlessly mean-spirited, in pursuit of meaningful plot lines. The photography and scenery are splendid. It is kind of a unique show wherein a blended family also tried to adapt to like in Africa. We have Acorn-TV - so, we can stream every season.
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