Truly dreadful premise.

One of those that you sit and think "is it a cultural difference?" "It's just a story so am I taking it too seriously?" "Maybe I'm misunderstanding?"

Before being honest with yourself and saying this is a hideous plot line to try and hang a Romance on. It's abusive, stalkerish, voyeuristic, manipulative, etc. (1% of Something & Well Intended Love I'm looking at you!)
She wasn't great either.

I watched it on Viki and my review was -
"Horrible, manipulative twat, aided by two other Herberts, gaslights a women and treats her terribly. So of course she falls for him... he is rich though. Managed about four episodes before I couldn't stand it anymore. Terrible!"

I am unable to watch this sort of thing and ignore the horribleness. I don't think "oh it's just a plot device for a light entertainment programme" I think Jesus if someone did that to me, or my daughter, or my mother, or really just about any other actual human being I would despise them and fight them. Which is OK if they are a villain doing villainous things but not for the Romantic lead.


Sort of Spoiler ALERT!!!



Secretly filming a woman whilst doing a highly unethical experiment on them is a point of no return for me.