DGS49
Diamond Member
As a Netflix subscriber, I often happen onto programs that show up in my feed that have been on network television but have run their course. The good part is that the whole series is posted on Netflix, so if it is good I can just binge the series and watch them from beginning to end in a short time.
I started watching "The Lying Game" a few days ago. It is a series about a set of twins, separated at birth. One is raised in a posh doctor's home in Phoenix ("Sutton"), and the other ("Emma") was raised in wretched foster homes in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, the twins are both played by the same actress. Emma is put in a bad place by her evil foster family, and shows up unexpectedly at Sutton's house. Sutton is fixated on finding their birth mother, and talks Emma into "standing in" for Sutton for a while, while Sutton takes off for Los Angeles, where she believes she can find their birth mother.
Sutton is an obnoxious, lazy narcissist and Emma is a nice, intelligent, compassionate young lady. The viewers see this over the first several episodes.
As in all such programs, the viewer is required to suspend disbelief on many different matters, but if you are willing to do that, the series is fairly entertaining. There is a lot of eye candy, male and female*, and the story line keeps shifting, keeping the readers entertained.
I haven't finished watching it, and it appears that the series ends with some of the major questions unresolved and unanswered. It ends after two seasons, and presumably the plot would have come to fruition in the non-existent third season.
Parenthetically, I never went to a public HS and never went to a co-ed HS, but I am stunned by the way these kids are dressed at school. Most of the featured students are dressing stylishly and expensively. I would not have expected that, even in a prosperous suburban district.
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* I have not seen so many flat-chested young ladies in one place since I saw my 4th grade grand-daughter's band concert last year.
