Harper’s Islands: BAM! You’re Dead!
So the second episode of “Harper’s Island” premiered last night. I’m finding recapping the show difficult, because there are so many people, many of whom I still can’t remember their names . . . some I still don’t know who the heck they are! So forgive me when I don’t use the proper names!
The show was kinda divided into two parts. First up, Henry and his bride Trish had come up with this scavenger hunt for the wedding guests. During it a lot of “stuff” went down.
Cal, the English guy, got caught in some snare trap, pulling him up into a tree and leaving him hanging upside down. This other guy, whose name I don’t know, found him but left him. NICE! He had the hots for Cal’s girlfriend, so he decided to try and get closer to her. Fortunately she wanted nothing to do with the jerk. Meanwhile a poor old priest fell into the same kind of trap, and was quickly decapitated by the killer!
Abby, during the hunt, ran into her old boyfriend (whose name I’m forgetting) and his creepy friend Shane (whose name I remember because he’s an ass!). They were hunting deer, which grossed her out. When the two guys returned to their car . . . a dead deer was over the hood and “Psycho” written in blood on the windshield!
Later Henry returned to his room, only to find a deer head in his tub!
Abby ran into this goth girl at a diner, I think her name was Kelly. She really latched onto Abby. It turns out both their mothers were killed by John Wakefield. She envied Abby for getting off the island. Abby revealed her father send her away, she didn’t leave on her own. The other girl wanted off the island, basically begging Abby to let her come stay with her in L.A. until she got on her feet. She quickly apologized for seeming rude and presumptuous. She then revealed lately she had been seeing John Wakefield. Abby said impossible, her dad killed him. The girl asked then why she saw him?
Later Abby went to the girls house to invite her to stay with her in L.A. She thanked her. She then ended up in a kinky sex scene with Henry’s brother J.D., who is also very goth . . as well as a bit deranged. We learned last time he had tried to kill himself before, and he’s on a lot of meds.
Elsewhere, Trish met with Hunter, her ex, to find out what he was up to. He claimed he wanted her back, and brought up her father . . . . She talked to her friend about Hunter. We learned Hunter was basically a creep, which is why Trish dumped him. Hunter went to see Trish’s dad, yeah he brought Hunter there to stop the wedding. Shocker! The father clearly doesn’t think Henry is good enough. Trish later confronted her dad about Hunter. Her dad lied, saying Hunter came to him saying how much he still loves her, he felt for the guy so he brought him in to make sure things were over. Trish let her dad know she wanted to marry Henry.
The end of the episode involved a bonfire at the beach. Henry earlier had invited Abby’s former boyfriend, who was his best friend on the island too. He even invited Shane, before knowing Abby told him Shane and the other guy were hunting deer. At the bonfire he decked Shane, thinking he had left the deer head in his tub.
Cal’s girlfriend, at the bonfire, realized she couldn’t find him. The guy that was after her just then remembered, he left him strung up in the woods! They found him, alive fortunately. Unfortunately for the girl with the pooch, well she wasn’t as lucky. She ended up falling into a pit in the woods and the killer set her on fire!
The show ended with the goth girl (Kelly’s?) friend showing up at her house. She was hanging from the rafters, literally! Everyone ended up at her place as Abby’s dad the sherrif arrived.
My Thoughts
First up, let’s have a scavenger hunt on the creepy island where many people were killed not long ago. Yeah, great idea!
I’m not sure who the killer is at this point. I do however think either John Wakefield wasn’t the original killer. If he was, well then he has a kid avenging him.
They seemed to want us to think it is J.D., and I think as soon as bodies are found, everyone else will think it’s him because of his mental issues history.
The previews of shows to come I think were a lot better than this episode. The creepy little girl who talks to spirits . . . awesome!
I wonder if you are right about John Wakefield having a kid, such as a son, and that is why Kelly thought she was seeing John Wakefield? The obvious person for that would be Hunter, since I think Abby has yet to see him and she has seen just about the rest of the wedding guests to think that they might resemble John Wakefield. Chances are though, he is probably trying to find out who the real killer is to clear his father’s name??
04.18.2009 at 12:04 pm
I’m really digging this show. But unfortunatly it will probably only last one season. I don’t see them pulling a “who dun it” and drag it out for years.
04.18.2009 at 11:21 pm
It’s designed to only last 18 episodes. The talk is that this could be the new way of television. Makes for better writing, a faster pace with the show, etc. I like this one too.
04.20.2009 at 9:11 am
I thought one of the selling points for this show was it was only going to last like 8 shows or something like that. It has a definite end date, right? I could have sworn that was in the previews leading up to the show’s premier.
Anyways.
I hope the killer is a “real” person. Not some spilt personality crap just some crazy ass nightmare that one girl is having about remembering her mother. I’m getting invested in this show and if turns out to be something so off the wall I’m gonna be really mad. Not that CBS cares if I’m mad or not, but I’m gonna be really mad!
04.20.2009 at 10:47 am