YMMV / Pacific Palisades

• Nightmare Fuel: Joanna's recurring nightmares about her rape and the fears that Rachel herself will get raped too. At one point, she sees her being attacked by her boyfriend in these bad dreams.
• Retroactive Recognition: A pre-Grey's Anatomy James Pickens Jr. guest stars in one episode.
• The Woobie: Kate. She's a total Nice Girl who is devoted to her husband Robert and helped to start up his lucrative contractor company, only for him to cheat on her with his assistant Jessica (who was also welcomed with open arms by Kate when she was first hired), she becomes pregnant with the child she's always wanted, only to suffer a miscarriage in a car accident and after losing her mind and abducting a baby from the hospital, she's soon arrested.