Rule of thumb, if you're going to be making a series called First Note of Love.. maybe have more than one note of music and love?

This seriously needed way more music and romance than it had, because even though as a series about grief and moving forward this was actually pretty good, there was definitely more they were trying to bring to the story. And unfortunately, none of that actually came through.

There was just way too much going on for it to no real impact to the story, trying to stuff in grief, romance, music and all the technical aspects that go with it in twelve episodes will give you exactly something like this, half baked for the most part. Half of the story was about finding yourself again after going through something difficult (which again, was well done) and the other half was about producing music, booking a venue, recording the music.. and the romance was just randomly there.

The romance definitely had potential (both the couples) and the premise did too, but they really messed up the execution on so many fronts. Way too much technicality, way too many flashbacks and not enough scenes focusing on the music or the romance, which should have been the main focuses!

I don't know, they missed several beats when making this and bit off more than they could chew. If this had twelve, one hour episodes, I could see how all that they tried to include would make sense, but with around twenty five minutes for each episode? It's not feasible and it showed. Which was dissapointing, the way it just slowly tapered off until you just wanted the story to end because nothing new was happening. Too bad.