The show centers around a Vegas showgirl with a heart of gold, blah blah, who is just run down by life. She has a stalker guy who because of an upsetting event she lets take her out to dinner even though she's been blowing him off for months, and he's nice to her (the only man who's ever been nice to her, of course) and he asks her that night to marry him and gives her this pretty picture of what their life will be like and she does. (Mind you at this point I'm thinking this is incredibly unrealistic and, well, stupid.) So he takes her to his beautiful house in this beautiful little oceanside town aaand of course immediately things are not as they seemed...turns out he lives with his mother, who is played by Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore), and she's the quirky dance teacher who runs the local ballet studio. So the conflicts/relationships storylines are all set up and just seem cliche and predictable at this point but with some solid writing could still hold my interest...Kelly Bishop is great and the mother/son relationship and mother/new "wife" relationships both hold promise, as does the relationship between the guy and the showgirl (he knows she doesn't love him, but he obviously loves her and knows her better than she thought, and you get the sense that she can grow to love him...and you look forward to that even while feeling awful for both of them about it) plus you have the girls at the dance studio and how they respond to this "professional dancer"/showgirl, plus in the town there's this woman everyone loves who used to date the son and everyone wanted them to end up together so of course they're all anti-showgirl right from the start. And you think you see how everything's going to play out, but again, you think with some solid writing and acting it could be pleasant if nothing groundbreaking/new.

Aaaaaaaaand in the last 5 minutes of the first show, the guy is killed in a car accident. Which, like I said, changed the whole show for me.