I enjoyed the premise, but I wish that the side characters from both bands played a larger role. I was also hoping for more depth from the traditional music elements of the story. I almost dropped this one because of the age inappropriate crush at the beginning, so thankfully that angst got out of the way fairly quickly. I was also less than thrilled with the cartoonish mean-girls clique. The actors were fine, but some story and character issues kept me from really attaching to any of them. The biggest surprise of Heartstrings is that for a show about music, most of the music is unmemorable. Apart from that one great modern/traditional mix, none of the songs stood out.