I cannot stand Cameron M's constant grinning. I know it's CM's thing, but in order for me to believe this is Drew, he needs to (at the very least) replicate old Drew's quiet, laconic behavior with very little smiling and none of the Miss Mary Sunshine attitude. If anything, new Drew should be openly angry, even hostile at times considering how he was held captive and all that stuff that happened. Instead, he's become some kind of "town counselor" listening to everyone's problems.
For well over a year, fans were complaining about the way the show over-exposed Carly---she was seemingly always in a front burner story of her own, then also injected into everyone else's stories. If LW is guaranteed three days a week, then they have to inject her into other people's stories, I guess, because her own story/-ies isn't sufficient. Sending her away like this gets Carly out of everyone else's business (a definite plus), and it allows a lot more flexibility in filming her material (since she only interacts with two other actors, for the most part). Instead of LW reporting to set four days out of five to work with ten or twelve actors on a dozen different sets, she might be able to film all her stuff in two or three days using the same two or three "Jacksonville" sets.
