Harper's Island

Have you read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None? Well, me neither, but I have seen it as a pretty old movie and it gave me chills for weeks (I was also less than 10 years old... I would have dreams of what I would do if I was trapped on an island with a homicidal maniac... the solution? Become a homicidal maniac yourself). That's the premise for the book: 10 people were invited to a party on an island and they get picked off one by one.

The TV series is somewhat like that. Trish is a really rich pretty "princess" who's marrying Henry, the handsome but not-so-rich young man. They decide to have the wedding party on the island near Seattle where Henry spent his childhood summers. So a group of their friends and relatives get ferried onto this island, where 7 years earlier, a homicidal maniac called John Wakefield killed 6 people and strung them up on a tree. Henry's best friend, Abby, lost her mom in the incident. Her dad sent her away to LA and this is the first time she's returned to the island.

There's a lot of other tangled storylines, like Trish's father is not happy about Henry's economic and family situation (Henry only has a brother, JD, and Uncle Marty left for a family. JD is antisocial and somewhat deranged. Trish's dad sees Uncle Marty as coarse and rough). There are other couples who are not in the ideal relationships they want to be. The whole island is also traumatized by the John Wakefield murders, which were the first murders on the island.

In my opinion, there are way too many blond and/or good-looking young people running around, and that makes everything a bit less realistic. But I sure do like the part when people start dying, which is... right off the bat. Multiple people may die in every episode and no one is safe. That's why there will only be one season of 13 episodes (because I suspect no one will be left). Sounds pretty exciting, so I'll be following it for a little while longer at least. It's on at CBS on Thursdays at 10 EST.

It is still a REALLY new TV show and the verdict is still out. Someone at the office was talking about it and I thought the premise was really intriguing, and she said she had to stop watching it because it's so chilling and bloody and kept her at the edge of here seat. So of COURSE I had to check it out, except I didn't catch the show's name and then I just forgot about it. I was surfing the net when I randomly saw it again and I finally decide to get a glimpse (it takes a lot for me to start a new TV show because ... well, I'm much of a movie person than TV, and once I start I usually like to stay with it until the end, which can be a lot of commitment if the show is actually not worth it.)