[4] Tony Atherton of the Ottawa Citizen wrote that "For the record, the show does have funny moments, some clever lines, and a cast that could be quite likeable.
But the pluses are swept away like a floating dock in a bad storm under the barrage of moronic plots, clichéd characters and cheap sets."
[3] Greg Quill of the Toronto Star also felt that the show had squandered its potential, opining that "the premise is fine – on paper.
Cottage life, blustering American tourists, the call of the wild, the summer getaway are things Canadians understand all too well.
And, in MacDonald and Redican, the series has a couple of potentially bright stars...so why constrain the talent here to scripts and situations so obviously derived from the American model, and adapted so poorly?