Thoughts: 12-July-2009

Well, I watched the final two hours of Harper's Island last night on CBS. Here are my comments.

1. Henry, the bridegroom, turns out to be John Wakefield's son via Abby's mother. Wakefield trained him to be a serial killer in order to enact his master plan. The only people to survive were the kid named Madison and her mother (whose name escapes me), Jimmy, and Abby.

2. Wakefield's master plan was to have his son kill Abby. Why he needed to kill everyone else on the island was never explained? I guess when he saw how easy it was to create all those deathtraps and clean up the scene hiding the fact all these people were getting killed, he figured why not? Give him something to do there since he did not have wedding invitation and could not join in on that fun.

3. Henry, who turns out to be Abby's half brother, decides to go with his own plan, kills father Wakefield, fakes his and Abby's death which allows him to fulfill his fantasy of living with Abby for the rest of their lives on Harper's Island, and plans on framing Jimmy as Wakefield's accomplice since Madison and her mother know that somebody helped Wakefield to escape from jail.

Conclusion: The real mystery here is why did CBS green light this crap? I mean you have the plot of a 90 min classic 1980's slasher film stretched out for almost 600 min with no R rated sex and nudity, and they thought people would stick and watch this for 13 weeks? The plots were stupid, the acting was bad, and the only two characters I liked were killed (Charlie and Chloe). This whole series gets a D from me.

And what is really sad is that CBS cancel ls shows like Without a Trace and Eleventh Hour that got good ratings and had well written story lines and goes for shows like Harper's Island and reality TV crap like "There Goes the Neighborhood" that was getting a heavy rotation of promotion last night. What is the appeal of reality TV crap? I have not idea.

If this show was not going to end in 13 episodes I would have bagged it up the four episode, that is why it gets a D instead of a F, I actually watched it so I could rant about it here and spare you the misery of viewing it.

Oh well.