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Fans of the Pretty Woman shopping-montage scene... will be pleased with Windfall for sprinkling in splurges both decadent and dutiful... But... Windfall is smart enough to tighten the screws immediately.
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75"Windfall" proves you don't need to be marooned on a remote South Sea island to be lost.
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70It's an enjoyable, intriguing look at what can happen to a group of ordinary, cash-strapped people who wake up one day as multimillionaires.
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An addictive frolic for summertime.
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63"Windfall" is not the greatest show to hit the summer circuit, but not the worst either.
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50Seldom has a set of characters worn out their welcome more quickly.
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50It's a gauge of how much reality programming has changed TV that I kept thinking that Mark Burnett could come in, push some situational hot buttons and produce a better show. [12 Jun 2006, p.39]
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50It's a decent enough show, a soap opera essentially, playing around with heavy themes and life-changing events but lightweight enough not to make you think too hard or keep you glued to the television when you decide you want something from the refrigerator — the TV equivalent of a beach book.
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50A breezy summertime soap opera.
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40I hope future episodes don’t feel as if somebody took three hours of material and reduced it to one.
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40Most of the beats suffer from a been-there quality, and there's a glut of interlocking storylines that might be less of an issue, admittedly, if two or three really merited attention.
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38For every story line that intrigues, and every character that sparks some interest, there are several others that don't.
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30"Windfall's" interlocking plots are mostly predictable and bland.
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30[A] silly new soap.
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30A shrewdly silly show offering something lovingly hackneyed for everyone.
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20"Windfall's" concept becomes increasingly muddled. Is it a bad soap opera, or a sluggish thriller?
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20The characters have the depth of a dollar bill, and their predicaments produce few surprises. It's not that the stories lack potential -- well, some maybe. Mostly it's that the level of drama rarely goes beyond daytime fare.
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20There's an attempt at darkness here that the writers don't pull off; instead each negative turn of events just feels depressing.
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10An unsatisfying and predictable jumble.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 43
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Mixed: 1 out of 43
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Negative: 7 out of 43
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JessB10I loved Windfall!! Please Please Please have a season two!! I absolutly fell in love with the first season and i wish I knew what happens next!!
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cindya10i hope they put windfall back i want to see it and i was very sad when they canceled it please put it back so everyone could see it
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ShannonM10