Posted by Dustin on 04.10.2009 at 2:06 pm

AS THE WEDDING FESTIVITIES BEGIN, ABBY, HENRY AND TRISH HAVE RUN-INS WITH THEIR PASTS, ON “HARPER’S ISLAND,” THURSDAY, APRIL 16

“Crackle” – As the wedding party embarks on a scavenger hunt, Trish confronts an old flame, Henry makes peace with some locals and Abby runs into a friend who is haunted by John Wakefield and the island’s tragic past, on HARPER’S ISLAND, Thursday, April 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Posted by Dustin on 04.09.2009 at 11:37 pm

So tonight was the premier of “Harper’s Island.” First I’ll give a recap, as much as I can remember (premiers are hard, you have to remember everyone!) and then some thoughts. This is late, so sorry any errors as well!

The show opened with a shot of the island and a bunch of dead people. We were told that 7 years ago Jack (John?) Wakefield killed a bunch of people on the island, it was the first set of murders on the island, it wouldn’t be the last.

Cut to today. We find all these people gathered on a boat in Seattle to take them out to Harper’s Island. Henry (the guy who played Henry on Ugly Betty!) is getting married to Trish. Trish is rich and proper, Island royalty so it seems. Henry was just the poor kid who visited the island every summer with his brother Jack to work fishing. Jack has issues, tattoos all over, a loner, and we learn he has tried to commit suicide.

Henry’s best friend is Abby, who lives in LA. She was reluctant to come, but does. She used to live on the island, that’s how she knows Henry. We soon find out her mother was one of the people killed years ago, she left after.

Uncle Marty is played by Harry Hamlin, he’s Henry’s Uncle. He shows up on the boat sporting a gun for some reason. We get the feeling he’s a bit creepy. Henry confides in him that Trish’s dad Thomas isn’t too pleased about this wedding.

The boat sets sail, though some cousin Eddie (or something like that) never seemed to arrive. Oh he arrived, and was tied underneath the boat right by the rudders! He also wasn’t dead, whoever put him there gave him a scuba tank to keep him alive. Once the boat started, Eddie stopped living!

Everyone gets to the island, somehow not realizing Eddie was killed along the way. Trish gets odd calls from someone named Hunter Jennings, which she ignores. Later on the island, her dad gets an odd email saying “I’ll get to her tonight.” It seems Hunter and Trish had thing, and he approaches her late at night and kisses her. Hunter is ex-Days star Victor Webster. She pushes him away, saying she’s married.

Henry, worried about his brother, sends Abby out to look for him and keep an eye on him. His brother ends up in some bar, where Abby runs into her old boyfriend. Jack gets in a fight, Abby breaks it up, only to have the sheriff show up. The sheriff is her father, there seems to be some bad blood between them. We learn her father killed the Wakefield guy “supposedly” responsible for the murders years ago, but nobody knows why he even killed all those people.

Abby returns to the big Wellington mansion, that’s where the wedding is happening, that’s where all the guests are staying. Henry comforts her, saying it will be okay, that the killer is long dead. Abby goes to her room only to find old newspaper clippings about her mom’s murder on the mirror.

Uncle Marty has a talk with Trish’s dad, basically warning him not to mess with Trish and Henry’s happily ever after.

There was a weird scene with Trish’s niece going into her parents bedroom late at night. She tells her mom that people were killed on this island. Her mom asks her who told her that? She says her new friend.

Henry and Trish make whoopee. She goes to the bathroom after, saying how they should stay in separate rooms from now on until their wedding. Her phone buzzes and Henry sees Hunter is calling her.

The end had Uncle Marty walking across a bridge and falling through, being trapped. Someone started hacking and we end up seeing the entire lower half of his body has been cut off!

My Thoughts . . .
It was a very interesting show. Definitely a bit gory, though more implied than anything. It was NOT as bad as the OR scenes on “Grey’s” for sure!

There are a lot of characters, some who weren’t well introduced, so I felt a bit lost.

The mystery is interesting, you get the sense that the guy who everyone thought was the killer wasn’t.

I have this feeling Henry and Abby will end up together, not this Trish girl.

Posted by Dustin on 04.08.2009 at 8:49 pm

“Harper’s Island” premiers this Thursday on CBS at 10pm. I’ve been looking forward to this one. I’m not sure how long it will last though. Word is this show pushes the limits of how much gore a primetime non-cable show can get away with!

Oh, ex Days’ Hunk Victor Webster, who played grown up Nicholas Alamain, stars in the premier.

“HARPER’S ISLAND,” A 13-EPISODE MYSTERY EVENT, PREMIERES THURSDAY, APRIL 9 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK

The Finale for the 13 Episode Mystery Event Airs July 2

“Whap” – HARPER’S ISLAND is a 13-episode murder mystery about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They’ve come to laugh… to love… and, though they don’t know it… to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival. Henry, the boy next door, is marrying the woman of his dreams, Trish Wellington, a beautiful and wealthy heiress. But as the wedding week begins, people start dying. Every episode, someone is killed. Wedding guests and island locals…every person is a suspect. No one is safe. No one can be trusted. By the end of the 13 episodes, all questions will be answered, the killer will be revealed and only a few will survive.

In the premiere episode, Abby Mills returns to Harper’s Island for the wedding celebration of her best friend, Henry Dunn, and his fiancée, Trish Wellington. Abby hasn’t been home in seven years, since her mother and five others were murdered by John Wakefield, on HARPER’S ISLAND, Thursday, April 9 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

CAST:

Abby Mills………………………….. Elaine Cassidy

Henry Dunn…………………. Christopher Gorham

Trish Wellington……………………. Katie Cassidy

Chloe Carter………………. Cameron Richardson

Cal Vandeusen………………….. Adam Campbell

Jimmy Mance……………………… C.J. Thomason

Sheriff Charlie Mills……………………. Jim Beaver

Christopher “Sully” Sullivan………….. Matt Barr

Beth Barrington…………………… Amber Borycki

Thomas Wellington………………… Richard Burgi

J.D. Dunn…………………………… Dean Chekvala

Shane Pierce……………………………. Ben Cotton

Maggie Krell………………………… Beverley Elliott

Malcolm Ross………………………. Chris Gauthier

Uncle Marty Dunn………………….. Harry Hamlin

Shea Allen……………………………… Gina Holden

Richard Allen………………………….. David Lewis

Nikki Bolton……………………………… Ali Liebert

Danny Brooks…………….. Brandon Jay McLaren

Katherine Wellington…………… Claudette Mink

Joel Booth………………………….. Sean Rogerson

Kelly Seaver………………… Ana Mae Routledge

Madison Allen………………… Cassandra Sawtell

Lucy Daramour………………………. Sarah Smyth

Hunter Jennings…………………… Victor Webster