SSD works because it recognizes what it is: a heart-felt and genuine character-driven show. I am a character-driven person. It's how I choose what books to read, it's how I choose what books to write. Thus, I will never pitch this cozy Hallmark series to anyone for its fast-plot or intricate mysteries.
SSD is a well-painted world crafted with an ensemble of the most likeable people you will find on television.
Here, two mysteries occupy the characters at the Dead Letter Office. First, a burned and nearly unrecognizable letter that could be from anyone addressed to anywhere ( it ends up having to do with a now-teenaged daughter of an Iraqi war heroine). The second, the re-appearance of Oliver O'Toole's estranged father and his very-near-after reported death.
The central characters meet each mystery head-on while grappling with their personal feelings. There are lovely moments between Norman and Rita who, if you remember, finally had a first kiss and finally revealed their feelings for each other in SSD: From Paris with Love. There are heart-wrenchingly fuzzy and warm scenes between gorgeous Shane and Oliver. We last left them on a porch swing at her house and lovely old-fashioned Oliver just can't get around to throwing his arms around her and finally telling her she makes his world orbit!
GAH! So wonderful.
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Signed Sealed Delivered is my happy place. I literally cannot have a bad thought or worry running through my head as I step into its world for a well-deserved hour and a half. It is expert characterization with solid morality and is underpinned by a strong Christian worldview that is quite blatant by today's standards.
And I am going to marry Oliver O'Toole. He is my perfect man. I have said it before, I have said it again, he basically waltzed--suspenders, arm-bands and all, into my life with his antique letter openers and old-fashioned chivalry.
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| be mine, Oliver |
My thanks to our friends at Grace Hill Media for providing this Canadian with a screening copy ( because they don't show them here! BUT I WILL ALWAYS BUY THE DVDS) :)
1 comment:
OMGAWD a fellow Oliver fan <3
I so love this show...i saw the whole season and all the films in a few days and now im dreading that the last movie has come out. I mean their might be more -but....it will take forever. hallmark always takes forever to get stuff out on the WWW im in Norway and have to stream these and not be able to watch on TV
Yes im totally head over heels smittened with Oliver....if there was a man out there like that today Id marry him....or atleast date him forever :D
I love men who knows his way around words and who dresses well and is a little quaint and old fashioned... Im so moderned I can build a bathroom and a kitchen and buy a home by myself....but I would love for a real man to be there by my side and letting me be able to let him take the reins every once in a while.
Havent had that happen so far in my life -not in a good way anyway
<3
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