YMMV / No Good Nick

• Growing the Beard: The first half is a somewhat bland and generic comedy, the characters mostly stay one dimensional and the revenge plot barely moves at all. Part 2 picks up the pace, dealing head on with the backstory and how traumatic it has been for Nick, the Thompsons get a great deal of character development, and while the comedy is still there, the drama gets a lot more attention, the story moves a lot faster and becomes much deeper.
• Magnificent Bastard: Nicole "Nick" Franzelli is a teenaged con artist seeking to avenge her father's imprisonment by tricking her way into the Thompson family by claiming to be a Long-Lost Relative. To attain funds for a lawyer for her father, Nick passes off discount wines as expensive vintages, talks the volunteer squad into fining students who show up in a offensive costume while secretly swapping the fine box with a box of her own, sells stolen art equipment such that it cannot be traced back to her, and sets up an online charity fraud account. Gaining the Thompson's love which Nick begins to reciprocate, Nick still resolves to take them down out of bitterness for ruining her father and undermines them in various ways to slander them though she eventually comes to feel guilt and eventually cuts a deal with the police to restore the Thompson's name, remaining tricky even following her change of heart.
• Uncertain Audience: The best way to describe the show is being a cross between a Nickelodeon tween sitcom and Burn Notice, and so any given episode is blending family and school drama with overt criminal acts. The writing and acting makes a noble effort to make it work, but the core premise is just a hard sell.
• The Un-Twist: Since the first few episodes focus on how good and kind the Thompsons are and Nick's dad is in prison, it's easy to suspect that the Thompsons are actually innocent and that it will be revealed that it was all a misunderstanding or that Tony is just malicious for a petty reason. The Italian Job reveals that Tony is telling the truth about the Thompsons ruining them.

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