The Vineyard

This is one of the worst shows I have ever seen. The writing was awful, the cast couldn't act, and they didn't show enough if the island itself. When the actors were supposed to be angry or upset, they were smiling, corny, and not believable in any way. The narrations delivered by one of the show's main characters are annoying, lacking the proper emotion, and similar to that of a tour guide. The image of islanders is completely blown out of proportion, causing the island locals to seem like black dog obsessed young adults who throw parties all the time and live like kings. in reality, the vineyard natives are very relaxed and laid back, and do not own many things purchased from he black dog. Also, the writing was very poor, unbelievable, and reminiscent to over-dramatized soap operas. This show is an abomination to Martha's Vineyard.

was excited for this series. Live on Cape year round. Its so horribly over scripted and plastic. Fake fake fake. Painful to watch. The cast is overly perfect. This is one of the worst done reality shows I have ever seen...because there is NOTHING real about it other than the location! Everyone looks like they spend several hours at the gym. Perfectly made up and clothed. No one looks like this on the island. Suck a disappointment. Planned scripted conflicts. Perfect bodies no body fat spray tanned. Very sad. The island is such an interesting place. This show is a complete painful embarrassment. Its so bad that I went out of my way to find a place to post how horrible it is. I live here and am insulted to have such plastic garbage portrayed.

The poorest script ever. The actors/actresses smiled all the time and making the conversation very superficial. A line which was supposed to sound angry or quarreling, they have smirking face and giggling all the times. Pretentious and fake!

I think the director and the actors need to know what facial impression are.

Indeed, to quote Cowell's: not all goodlooking comes with talents.

The conversation and story don't grow at all. Most of the part is dragging or i would say, bragging!

It will be a total surprise if this series is renewed for another season, or even make it to the final episode in this first season.

September 2013: I didn't know the cast was real people until today. I was looking up Katie who strongly resembles a relative of mine. I previously presumed this cast was most likely a grownup cast of Disney kids, especially Jackie who looks suspiciously familiar! Guess I was wrong.

THE VINEYARD is refreshing relaxing summer fare, very attractive cast, beautiful location. Looking back on this summer series, it was nice to have this change of pace from all the apocalyptic futuristic mystery crime comedy medical competition action vampire zombie thrillers I love, and to unwind with a comfortable show like this. To Katie and the cast, a job well done.

When I watch it, it reminds me of watching 'The Hills', 'The OC', and not so great reality shows like that.. it doesn't strike me as a TV show. I don't think they did a very good job at scripting this. The acting wasn't really up to par. They seemed fake. I thought it would be a good show but I just couldn't get into it. I tried watching a couple episodes to see if i was able to change my mind about it, i just couldn't do it. It may be a great show for some people but I'm using my own opinion about it and it shouldn't reflect someone else's POV of the show. Maybe I don't understand, is this a reality show? Or did they grab a bunch of kids and told them to say these lines? I'm seeing that is labeled a "docu-soap" the filming seems to be that way but not the cast. Hopefully it'll get better with time but I don't think that's a guarantee.