Everything meets the Hallmark minimum production standards except the sound mixing which should not have made it to broadcast. Overall it's uninspired. Lighting with soft sepia is good on interiors though a bit reddish for skin tones . Harsh on outdoor shots.

My advice is to turn on the closed captions, especially when there is music in the mix.

Some good use of DoF in outdoor scenes.

The pacing felt slow, the script simple but at least it didn't check off the dozen standard tropes of a traditional Hallmark movie of the week. It hit fewer of these than most.

The mansion and grounds became characters in their own right.

Another "Reel One Entertainment" production, it's a company that churns out rom-coms that are of questionable quality - quantity over quality. They make films that are bought and marketed by companies and networks and include actors of lesser quality than those that appear in Hallmark, Great American or Lifetime networks. The writing is usually mediocre or bad and the acting is usually the same.

It's escapist drama, when people want to get away from the too close to reality dramas. If the story is plausible and the acting isn't horrible, viewers will suspend some belief. When the script is bad along with the acting, then the film is doomed like this one.