Everything wrong with The Baxters - Ranked top 4 worst characters

*Spoilers ahead*

As a young Christian who watches way too much TV than is good for her, and finds herself frustrated with the lack of clean drama, I was excited about the potential of a Christian show. This light-hearted, relaxing family drama allowed me to just sit back and watch something without having to think, and without being bombarded with secular nonsense. But I soon found myself disappointed by the less-than-mediocre acting, the frustrating plotlines and the unrelatability of certain characters.

1. Everything wrong with Reagan

Reagan started off being this soft, sweet, Godly girl that could make a playboy change his stripes and start believing in God (because according to this show, it's THAT simple), but later her character developed into being the worst person on the show. She ran away from Luke the moment she experienced hardship, and hid her pregnancy and full-on baby for more than a year from him.

At first, as an audience, i did relate with and empathise with her running away from Luke after losing her dad, but how a Christian woman could NOT tell her ex that she had his baby is unthinkable for me. She quickly went from sweet and likeable to the worst character for me. I also believe the writers did her storyline dirty, she messed up one time by having relations out of wedlock after which she then she got pregnant immediately and her father got killed, its as though the writers wanted to punish Reagan for messing up. However all it did was make us an audience dislike someone who could’ve been normal and sweet for abandoning Luke and leaving him in a dark place, unaware he had fathered a child.

2. Everything wrong with Kari Baxter

Kari Baxter, apart from being a terrible actress who shows little to no expression, is also the most unbelievable of all the characters. The show starts with her husband cheating on her with the student (how cliche, I know..some lazy storywriting here I have to say), and yet Kari immediately forgives Tim. Even after everyone, including her Christian parents, tells her to leave him, she not only stays, but her first resort is forgiveness. I do appreciate the fact that the show is teaching us lessons on forgiveness and trying to encourage Christian values, but for the sake of relatability, her character could have at least struggled with the infidelity more, and we should have seen her and Tim take their time to find their way back to each other.

More importantly, even though Kari is the nicest and most forgiving of all the Baxters, I have to say that she’s a little boring. She was so ready to start a family with a man who cheated on and abandoned her, and we never got to see or relate to her character going through the motions of reconciliation. Out of all the Baxters, she is the least relatable. Even her storyline with Ryan wasn’t as exciting or passionate as it could’ve been.

3. Everything wrong with Tim Jacobs

Apart from the most obvious one, him abandoning his wife and sleeping with a student..Tim Baxter was filled with flaws that made him the least likeable character. I wonder if that’s why the characters killed him off.

Tim did not deserve Kari; she was beautiful, forgiving, gracious and kind, and Tim was an obnoxious, ungrateful drunk. Perhaps the most unrelatable moment was when Tim went from being an alcoholic to suddenly changing his ways (almost overnight), dumping his mistress, his drinking problem, and his divorce plans and embracing Kari and her baby all of a sudden. He just went from zero to 100. Again, very lazy storywriting, which made Tim an unrelatable character as well.

4. Everything wrong with Luke Baxter

Almost all the characters on the show are not well developed, their personalities and struggles are never adequately shown, which makes us an audience not really care about any of them. There is not one character on the show who is extremely likeable and worth watching.

Luke Baxter had a lot of potential, after going from playboy to a slow but steady believer. But again, it makes no sense how Luke could go from a womanizer to a committed man who wants to marry Reagan immediately. The writers could’ve shown Luke wrestle against temptation or have a back-and-forth with the couple to make him more relatable. But instead, he went from bad boy to good overnight, once again. People, in real life, Christian or not, do not change so drastically so soon.

All in all, although the Baxters does have really Christian principles, the acting in the show defeats its purpose and is subpar in nature. Not one of the characters, except maybe Ashley Baxter, is relatable, likeable, and worth turning the channel for. It’s a shame that a Christian series with so much potential could be so poorly produced