Positives: 1. Hmmm, well let's move on to negatives. Negatives: 1. The dig site w/lots of closely spaced-out shallow rectangular excavations had just a small element of what most look like. 2. The actors' characterization/portrayal of students and archeologists artificially resembled just acting. 3. They dialogue was middle class, party level type socializing, and came across as forced memorization. 4. Not much dirt being moved about, not even on their clothing. Everyone was so spiffy clean. 5. Script - usual love interests; a dead body; possible treasure to tempt the baddies. A bit of sleuthing to solve our mysteries that might challenge a middle schooler.

In this Canadian production which is set in Maine the title role in Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery, Emma is played by American actress Courtney Thorne-Smith. She's an archaeologist following in the footsteps of her dad who was a world renown professor of archaeology. But during this film she must feel like Indiana Jones with all the bad things happening around her.

This is what you call a bait and switch mystery where you are led to believe the villain is one individual though he's trying real hard to pin two murders on Thorne-Smith and other crimes in order to shut down her dig. She's in Maine looking to find proof of an offshoot of Puritan colonists who were rumored to settle there and coincidentally enough it's where she grew up. She has a team of students that include Tess Atkins and Adam DiMarco and those two prove to be very valuable in more ways than just on the dig.

The ending was a real let down when the real villain tries to kill Thorne Smith. The jig was clearly up and even he had to see that.

Still this is a nice new entry into Hallmark's stable of with it professional red state women who take up mystery solving as an avocation.

Archaeologist Emma Fielding (Courtney Thorne-Smith) is trying to prove her father's theory of a lost colony in their home town. She has a map and her group of young students. She has a confrontation with angry old acquaintance Augie and the next day, she finds his dead body in her dig site. FBI Special Agent Jim Connor (James Tupper) arrives to investigate.

It's an ok mystery. It's comparable to anything Lifetime or such channels. CTS seems to have gotten stiffer in her acting over the years. The story has an interesting premise although the movie should start with a young Emma listening to her father talking about the lost colony. This is fine for a TV mystery movie.