One of my all time favorites.

Let's be realistic.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Where to begin...David and Elizabeth are horrible parents, Max is basically an emotionless robot, and Carter is just stupid. Lori's story gets more ridiculous by the second, the side characters are completely uninteresting, and Grant seems to be headed on the road to suicide. But wait, there's more, there's the big issues. EVERYBODY IN THIS SHOW IS AN ALCOHOLIC, except for maybe the adults, seriously, I don't know what your high school experience was like but I was not out drinking Vodka every SINGLE night. Somebody needs to get these kids some help. And then there's Taylor. Oh, Taylor, you over-dramatic bipolar bitch you. I would have difficulty finding a character in anything who comes off worse than Taylor. She is just horrible. All in all Finding Carter makes for somewhat interesting TV if you have exhausted all of your other options on Netflix/Hulu. I mean ALL of them. If you do decide to watch this for some reason at least now you know what you're getting into.

This show caught my attention with its kidnapping story, but it didn't turn out quite as I expected. First of all, I have to say, it's a great idea. I like how the show started, with Carter being told she was taken as a child, but from that moment on, they don't say a lot about her kidnapping. It seems as it became irrelevant. It becomes classic teen drama - fighting with parents, choosing between boys, sibling misunderstandings etc. But where's the plot advertised so much in trailer and previews? This story definitely has potential, and I guess they can't reveal too much in the first 10 episodes, but I expected it going that way. We only got one clue about the kidnapping, and I expected at least more mysteries and unresolved puzzles. By the end of season one, all we know is that Carter's dad and kidnapper (or mom as she calls her) have some kind of past. That's it. And that's why it got only 5 stars. And I can't wait for more episodes, cause I honestly believe we'll get some more background details.

The beginning was awesome. If you take not a rare scenario, you must add something new. Must! And so it happened. I may say a lot about bio-family, girl herself, her old and new friends and clear and not so clear love, but the most intrigue question of all is what more important. And I think is Carter's choice between families.And this is where scenario could be interesting or.. normal. Final episode of season first did hints, but still its all bad feelings. If it would be ''normal'' way, Carter returns to her bio-family at any costs.. of logic. Why? She knew them only few months, they are not perfect, they lied a lot, she had a lot of problems after this reunion, she lost her life and lost herself. It was obvious she wanted back everything, and it was confused when she became hesitate. Even when she find out about lies her bio-family, when her new friends betrayed her, still she hesitates.Does biological family is more important than the family you lived all your life? If so, and I can see the scenario pushes to that ''normal'' way, than the second season would be boringly predictable: Carter come back to bio-family, which suddenly become more ideal, her mother become some kind of psychotic and may be even do try to hurt her and become a waste, her new friends would be forgiven and become good too and everything is become normal and standard.Carter on this way after betraying Crash. What with him now - life or death sentence? Not care, because in ''normal'' way he waste too. And waste must be swish off the way! What guy would be the switch? Obvios is the ''normal'' guy.. emm that one, son of cop. And with boyfriend of sister is everything will be okay of course duh. Booooring and predictable.If it comes interesting way, Carter stays with her mother, to prove that bio-aliens is still aliens in-front of years the real, but fake-founding LIFE. They would go in runs, cool dressing, family ties, Carter understands that her life is importantly than truth others looking for. Crash is out of prison and he forgives her, they reunite, be together and all of this. Happy end. In interesting way Carter's mother is good person. She the one who clear and justified.. and purified. In way of good scenraio she might the one who couldn't give birth and that why decide to kidnap. And Carter's bio- parents might be really not good (which they really are and it might do deeper). And in this way we have woman with no hope on happiness, and she rescues the child from bad parents to give this child all her love and real family. Can be? Yap, it can.Carter's bio-mom? Well, she does not give up and this respectful but she os the one who really have real problems, that crystal. And she is faulty in forgetting about her children who stayed! She IS the reason her family so.. glassy. Carter's father have not good character too. And the way where Carter's mother is good and no psychotic kidnapper may come be real AND intrigue! Not can be because is screaming and ripped out illusion of normal family? You say the family must be good only when normal? And even if not good, therefore it IS normal, big deal? Nu-uh. It's all starts like mess but good mess, and this what WISHED to see. Am I wrong? Is that just one of those clones, or becomes to be? Disappointing ahead of time with hope on good interesting continue.

This show is definitely not for me. If we're suppose to like this character- be on her side, it's not happening. This character is a horrible person. Yes, she was kidnapped, but her actions against birth mother since her return are deplorable. Complete dis-respect! Carter never considers what her birth mother went through, or anyone else's feelings- at all! She gets involved with a delinquent, in direct defiance of her mother (who just arrested the moron). The moron gets caught teaching Carter's 12 year old brother to roll joints. Her dad kicks him out, and the Mom forbids Carter from seeing him. What does this Carter do? She shoves her tongue down her the moron's throat, and makes a smart$$$ remark, in further defiance. I get she grew up with her kidnapper, and I'll give her that but she is horrible to anyone, that conflicts with what she wants. She doesn't think about other people at all! My ten year old watches this crap, with her Mom. I'm thinking about putting a stop to that. The show, to me, is an epic fail.