ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

reddawn329 The characters are pretty much the cliche LA actors trying to make it successfully in Hollywood. But the stories & themes running through each episode as these characters reveal themselves to the audience are dynamic. Some are very unique as the storyline slowly introduces IHN and how it operates. There are several programs like IHN in the USA and abroad & the writers pull from them I assume. It's refreshing to have such a unique storyline. Each character's backstory is revealed slowly & as I'm binging s2, there is so much more depth to these people. The suspense, lies, & passion of these characters are even better than s1. I'm only half way through but I hope they go on for s3. I saw the titles of the remaining episodes so I think I know what's to come but something tells me that there will be more & I'll be surprised. I didn't really know the 2 main actors. I was drawn to the show bc I'm a huge Michael Vartan fan! Loved that Lexa Doig from Aurora Teagarden series movies on HMM was also in a main role. Now, I know all these other amazing actresses & actors. If you have the opportunity to binge this show from the beginning.... do it! I like how the show writers really move the story along. Between each show is often a time jump of a few weeks or months. But you aren't left wondering what happened in between tho bc the story just moves right along. Kudos to the cast & crew! My little hypothesis on the origin or inspiration for this plot line....loosely based on Tom Cruise & "S'logy"?!?!?! I've heard the rumors that he had a 10 year contract with NK to keep him as the dreamy actor we all loved in the 80-90s when all the rumors about his sexuality & etc started showing up in the tabloids. Their union boosted her career & gave him cover. Note, they adopted children but after divorcing had kids of their own with their next spouses. Just a thought. He then went off the rails as he continued with "S'logy" then all of a sudden he's jumping on Oprah's couch smitten with Katie. My poor "Joey", Katie. She was pulled in & I often think of what Meagan is going through & wonder how Katie got herself out etc. Don't get me wrong, I love Tom Cruise and majority of his movies. I am really excited for the Maverick movie next summer. But I was honestly not attracted to him, like swooning over him as a teen etc. He has just been in so many amazing movies that became blockbuster hits. This show is nothing like his life but there are some similarities. I also think of EST, then Landmark Forum, now just Landmark I think. I attended Landmark forums & classes in 2014. They were pretty amazing but financially I couldn't continue to hang with them! :) But I did gain from the weekends & courses & learned a lot about myself. Just how the characters are clearly benefiting. I can see the up sides & down sides of IHN. It's tough to know if Terrance is sincere or completely shady! Maybe both. I'm intrigued enough to keep watching. If you are still reading, thanks for sticking with my rambling.

Kim Ren I like it! I am not ashamed to say I really like it. It kept me entertained and left me wanting more like every show should. I love the chemistry between Megan & Kyle. At first when the whole Institute of the Higher Mind came into it, I was a bit skeptical but it works for me and I enjoy that part of the story line as well. A binge worth series. Can't wait for season 2.

sara2520 I really like this show. I thought it was going to be another Harlequin Romance novel from the promos, but I was wrong. I screamed in shock when I finally realized they were sneakily doing a show based off of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' relationship and Scientology. I loved the main character. The actress who play her does a phenomenal job of making you feel and care about Meghan. Because this show is ultimately about the story of Meghan, a struggling actress trying to break into the industry with hardly any luck. Right before she is about to on vacation with her boyfriend of two years,she finds out he cheated on her with a potential baby on the way and ends the relationship. After getting a hangover after a wild night of partying with her friends to drown her sorrows the same day she breaks up with her boyfriend, she gets a call to addition for new movie the following morning called the Kill Plan, starring Kyle West, the hero of the show. She audition reading lines with her and he is immediately smitten with her and take her out for a romantic date leaving him to offer her contract marriage. I love how realistic Meghan reaction are to being offered a $10 million dollar contract to be the perfect wife/girlfriend after a 24 hour rendezvous, being thrown into the glitz and glamour of Kyle ' s life, dealing with having a boyfriend being apart of a religious cult - like institute with agent/mentor/stalker-like best friend Terrance played perfectly creepy by Michael Vaughan, betrayal by friends, and being haunted by the past. You root for her character and how she has to play along sometimes to survive the craziness her relationship with Kyle brings her. There were times I worried she was going to get suck into the cult because she played the characters and the audience so perfectly. Season one had me holding my breath the entire time wondering if she had joined the cult and the final scene left me speechless.Another thing I liked about this show is the analysis of the fakeness of Hollywood. How image is everything and sometimes manufactured to promote a show or actor even relationships. If everything is beautiful and glamorous to us, the regular folks then I am glad I'm not apart of that lifestyle because these beautiful people with photogenic good looks and beautiful clothes and fancy lifestyles are only walking advertisements of an illusion. I don't know if Season Two can surpass Season one, but I look forward to seeing the inevitable showdown between Meghan and Terrance. This show isn't for everyone. You're either going to love it or hate it. I enjoyed it, love the heroine of the show and look forward to next season.

Ed-Shullivan Yes, I read the preliminary reports that The Arrangement is loosely based on A star actor Tom Cruise and D star actress Katie Holmes pre-arranged relationship and my opinion still has not changed. I have zero interest in how this ghost actor Kyle West (Josh Henderson) and his paid for wife Megan Morrison (Christine Evangelista) initially met and then married. I just don't think there is a large enough audience, nor a sustainable audience that want to see a bunch of what look like teenage girls (not starving artist real women) trying to become Hollywood actresses and land a rich stud boyfriend by wearing skimpy clothes and partying with any and all bad boys. I really did try and give this series a chance but puh...leeeese gag me with a spoon.I never did enjoy the soap opera theme and if it walks like a soap opera, and talks like a soap opera than it must be a soap opera. I think I will pass and I think you will too.I give it a 2 out of 10 rating