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DARK SKIES ARE HEADED FOR THE MCMURRAYS IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF ‘RIDE’ PREMIERING APRIL 23, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

STUDIO CITY, CA – April 17, 2023 – Dark skies are headed for the McMurrays, in more ways than one, in “When it Rains...” this week’s all-new episode of “Ride” premiering Sunday, April 23 (9 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Channel. Nancy Travis (“Last Man Standing”), Tiera Skovbye (“Riverdale”), Beau Mirchoff (“Good Trouble”), Sara Garcia (“The Flash”), Jake Foy (“Designated Survivor”) and Tyler Jacob Moore (“Shameless”) star.

Missy (Skovbye) brings Cash (Mirchoff) as her plus-one to the Frontier BBQ, but he feels out of place when his biggest competition, Hudson Cooper (Orin McCusker, “Wynonna Earp”), shows up too. As she coaches Cash on making a good impression, Missy is haunted by memories of Austin (Marcus Rosner, “The Love Club”) and is caught off guard by a strangely familiar woman (Holly Deveaux, “12 Monkeys”). At the ranch, Hank (Greg Lawson, “Heartland”) surprises Isabel with some exciting news, but she doesn’t take it as well as he hopes. When the McMurrays get word that a big rainstorm has shifted and is expected to hit the ranch by nightfall, everyone works together to save all of the hay bales but have no hope of succeeding with just one working tractor. Valeria (Garcia) must put aside her differences with Tuff (Foy) to try and revive one of Dusty’s broken, old rigs. The task seems impossible, and so the pair considers an offer of help from an unlikely source. When Missy and Cash return, tensions from the day’s events create a perfect storm.

“Ride” is a Blink49 Studios/Seven24 Films Production. Executive producers are Rebecca Boss, Chris Masi, Sherri Cooper, Alexandra Zarowny, Paolo Barzman, Greg Gugliotta, FJ Denny, John Morayniss, Carolyn Newman, Virginia Rankin, Elana Barry, Josh Adler, Jordy Randall and Tom Cox. Mark Haroun and Alejandro Alcoba are co-executive producers. The series is produced by Brian Dennis. Lesley Grant is supervising producer. Paolo Barzman directed from a script by Jen Rivas-DeLoose.

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akwardlyuncool · 3 years

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Beverly Lewis’ The Shunning Series “Overview” Review

The Shunning (2011)

The Confession (2013)

The Reckoning (2015)

The basis of the series is that Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman set to marry one of the town’s Bishops, is having a hard time getting over the loss of her former love, Daniel Fisher who drowned in a river a few years back. She’s also struggling with her urges to play guitar and sing songs not in the official Amish hymn book. There is also an “English” woman snooping around town asking questions, which raises some of Katie’s own. To spoil what we already know from the title, all of this leads to Katie being shunned for her lost ways and thus spiraling the story into a 3 part series.

These films are based on Beverly Lewis’ book series, where there may or may not be more books included, but as far as I know only 3 movies were made.

I had previously watched the first 2 movies a few years back, but never got around to watching the third, so I figured I’d watch the whole series all the way through, you know just a quick binge watch cause I wanted to watch the first one again. I never read the books (Inspirational Romance Fiction isn’t really my thing,) but the first movie had enough intrigue behind it to pique something in me. Hallmark, Lifetime, all of the tv movie channels, know how to talk up a dramatic headline. It’s like clickbait, but with less bait and switch and more predictability.

So overall I felt like this could have all just been made into one extra long movie, or 2 at most, if edited right. It was just so drawn out, that to me the entire second movie could have just been divvied up and split between the first and the third. The Shunning (the 1st movie) was the best out of all 3 films, probably because it felt the most like “theater” movie as opposed to a made for TV one. All of that could have just been the “hype” around it, however I think it was also the only film that looked less like in was made in front of a green screen. The water backgrounds, although pretty, just looked so fake against their bodies. There was a lot of little things that separated the films from one another.

It was probably the casting that failed the second and third movies the most for me though. Between all 3 films there was such inconsistency within the casting and that made some of the continuity suffer. Like come on you can’t give us a brunette in one film and then make him blonde in another, call them the same character and think we won’t be at least a little annoyed. I can kinda forgive switching out Danielle Panabaker for Katie Leclerc as Katie Lapp simply because she was there for two of the three films, but the switch up on the other main characters, among other “important” cast members felt ridiculous to me. Between the second and the third film, the second wins that battle easily. I guess you could say that it had more spice to it and by the final film you knew what was going to happen if you hadn’t already figured it out yet.

Most people don’t expect much from these kinds of movies, so I’m probably judging it by its flaws that are simply common shortcomings from Hallmark in general. I can’t help going in on it a little bit, but you know what, I’m the type to get sucked in, even when these movies aren’t that good and I’m not the only one. I think people love them so much because you truly do get so much binge out of them. That’s why something like 40+ Hallmark Christmas movies were churned out last year. There is an audience for it and it’s not just the Christian Moms looking for wholesome content to cry to, we’re all looking for easy watches these days. Me personally I just like how extra these things are.

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