Review: Valentine

From the producers of Desperate Housewives and Reaper, Media Rights Captial brings you Valentine, a romantic new dramedy.

The show centres around the greek gods helping ordinary people find their soul mate or true love. The first episode begins with Roland a Hollywood poser, presenting Joanna (who he has known for a long time) her birthday gift. The gift is a holiday/date for the two of them, unfortunately a few hours earlier Tad, her previous lover who has cheated on her numerous times, proposes to her, which she gratefully accepts. Roland becomes upset and depressed.

This is where the greek gods come in, later that night whilst fixing his sink, Roland receives a message from 'Valentine Inc' a 'company' owned by these gods. Headed by Grace Valentine (Jaime Murray) aka 'Aphrodite' Grace sends out her two sons Danny and Leo to help Roland find his true love.

There is also Pheobe who runs the oracle, a magic pond inside their mansion. On their way, they also recruit a romantic story writer, Kate Frost. Initially she refuses to join the team but once 'Aphrodite' gives her a 'helping' hand she accepts the job. They help Roland find true love by seeing/reading the future through the oracle. Firstly, Danny and Leo take Roland to Joanna's bachelor party. Danny uses his 'gun' to configure Joanna's mind and she ends up sleeping with Roland that night. But this is only the start of Roland's problems, once Joanna wakes up she is surprised with the events of the previous night and walks out on Roland, promising to never see and talk to him again.

Whilst the boys were celebrating, the bad news from the oracle arrives, the job wasnt complete. So they planned to strand both Roland and Joanna in the middle of no where. As Joanna and Tad were travelling to Vegas, Roland swapped his broken 'gun' for a bow and arrow and punctured Tad's car tyre, whilst Leo and Grace kidnapped Roland. 'Coincidently,' Pheobe too was travelling on that route and offered to drive Joanna to the nearest gas station as Tad refused to go. With a few miles left to the gas station, Pheobe drops Joanna off and to her surprise, she sees Roland stranded across the road. They spill their love for each other which leads to the two of them getting married.

Overall, this is a cute show with a Reaper feel to it. I enjoyed the pilot, however the middle block was very slow and dragged out. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable 40 mins and has plenty of potential, fingers crossed ratings improve.

6/10