Hart of Dixie - Pilot, S01E01

The thing about train wrecks is that while they are horrible, you simply can't look away. Hart of Dixie didn't even have that going for it. Again, like A Gifted Man, I found myself slugging through the episode out of a sense of duty. I WILL watch all drama premieres, regardless of whether or not I think I will like them. Sometimes they surprise you. The surprise I got with Hart of Dixie was how bloody awful it was.

I hated Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson)! I completely agreed with her chief of staff - the girl had the bedside manner of a newt. Perhaps that is an insult to newts.

She was just a boring, idiotic, stuck-up and self-centred twit. How am I supposed to like a character like that? Granted many of the other people in the town were equally jerks, but when the lead isn't likable, we have a problem.

Plus, as a girl who grew up in a small town, I don't like the backwaters way we're being represented. I mean, sure, Zoe's judgments are presented to make her look like a bigot (again, not a word I should be using for the hero), but Lemon Breeland (Jaime King) is so much the stereotypical former prom queen that still thinks she's awesome cause she never left home cliche I couldn't stand it. And what kind of a stupid name for a girl like that is LEMON.

So all I can say is terrible! Come on, CW, Hellcats was way better than this. And so is Nikita! If you are going to cancel something, at least replace it with a show I would consider an improvement. No wonder One Tree Hill keeps getting renewed. And Hart of Dixie is not the next One Tree Hill.