The biggest problem with this is the clichéd characterisation. You have the calm, intelligent, fish-out-of-water (and pretentious) protagonist arriving in a small rural town, where everyone else is either simple-minded, prejudiced, a bully motivated by jealousy, or if female, inevitably wanting to bonk him. It’s a formula that’s been done a million times, offering little in the way of originality or nuance. Closer to a 2 out of 5 than 3 for now.