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Captain Black -> Harper's Island - US Speed (10/4/2009 12:37:12 PM)
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This is a 13-episode limited series that started yesterday in America. The title is the name of a small, idyllic - y'know, aside from the 6 people who were murdered there 7 years ago - fishing island off the coast of Seattle. That's Seattle, British Columbia looking at it. In fact, the point of the show is summed up in the title cards at the start. Those were the first muders comitted on the island, "they will not be the last". So what we have here is a sort of murder/mystery/slasher hybrid with just a dash of gameshow (as in "who'll be killed off this week?") in it - it's most reminiscent of those Kevin William-esque slasher films from the mid-'90s, only with a lot of padding. Which brings us to the cast.
The opening sequence introduces a boat (well, it's more yacht really) load of characters, who are going to the island to celebrate the wedding of Henry Dunn and Trish Wellington. The main character though is Abby Mills, who seems to be an amalgam of a bunch of other actresses but I can't quite think who. Count on them to be the last killed off, but don't worry, once they get to the island, there's another huge array of potential people.
So it's far from great art, and some of the writing is as pedestrian and cliché-ridden as you might fear and great chunks of the dialogue are entirely exposition, but the deaths (I hope it's not a spoiler to use the plural there) are quite imaginitive, and I'm quite interested to see how the whole thing plays out on a week-by-week basis.
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