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How does everybody feel about "Harper's Island" being moved to Saturdays? I'm not inherently bummed about the move, but I am bummed that it isn't doing better in the ratings. They just need to make damn sure they air all 13 episodes because I've seen the first 9 and if I don't get to find out how it ends... there will be trouble. I also think the show is a great concept with only so-so execution (though it does get better in later episodes).
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (summary)
The Bachelor Party finds Hunter's Spaghetti-O'd body on the boat (but can't ID him) and talk about calling Harbor Patrol. Malcolm the Greedy Pig spies Uncle Marty's money and sinks the boat by blowing a hole in it. They finally decide to burying the money in the woods until the wedding is over. However, Malcolm can't contain himself (he's in debt up to his eyeballs from starting his own beer company that Mr. Wellington won't invest in) and tries to steal the money from Booth, who drew the short straw and has to bury it. That confrontation... does not go well.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (key players)
While making a scrapbook for Trish & Henry, Abby finds out someone has checked out all the John Wakefield articles from the local paper. Madison is back on my Creepy Radar, as she is obsessed with the Bachelorette Entertainment Psychic's Tarot Cards and talking to spirits. She also may have smashed Trish's mom's china tea set. Trish finds out about Richard and Katherine when she spies them getting all freaky in the cellar but then Richard "saves" Trish from the automatic pool cover. Hmmm.
Bang, Bang You're Dead (who died)
Sadly, another week where only one person dies: groomsman Joel Booth.
Bang the Drum Slowly (how they died)
Booth shot himself in the leg and bled out in the woods. L-A-M-E.
Tick, Tick, Bang (gruesome scale)
-1 out of 10. Weak sauce.
Bang and Blame (hope you die next)
I still hate Sully and now I dislike Malcolm because he's a big, fat word-that-I-can't-print-here-but-looks-like-it-should-rhyme-with-fussy whose friend died in the woods (not his fault) and then buried him and then lied about it (his fault). Shane, fortunately, did not make an appearance.
Crash! Boom! Bang (favorite lines)
Joel: Which begs the question... did you find...
Sully: Her name is Stacy.
Joel: Sweet. Stripper.
Sully: Don't get too excited. She's a local girl, we'll be lucky if she has more teeth than fingers.
Joel: You know how long I'd last in jail?
Danny: You'd be fine... as a bottom.
Joel: What? Bottom? Is that bad?
Malcolm: A little bit.
Sully: Kinda depends...
Malcolm: On what you like.
Bang on the Drum All Day (best scare)
The shot of Hunter's only-teeth-remaining head was nice and gross. Trish almost getting trapped under the automatic pool cover was also decently tense; I was about to give the show mad props for killing one of the 3 main characters, so it was kind of disappointing when she survived. Still decently creepy because what a horrible way to die [shudder].
The Big Bang Theory (lead suspects)
Jimmy as the Good Guy Hiding Psychotic Anger might be a good bet, plus now that Abby's getting involved with him again that'd be a nice twist. Also, Thomas Wellington still creeps me out.
She Bangs (weekly death roster)
Cousin Ben: this was no boating accident
Uncle Marty: bridge to tear-in-halfia
Reverend Fain: someone should've given him a heads up
Kelly Seaver: you hang in there, buddy
Lucy Daramour: what a little firecracker!
Hunter Jennings: he lost the face-off
Joel Booth: he's got a leg up
As far as the complaints about why nobody notices the missing people, I think that's pretty easy (other than Lucy). They just assumed Cousin Ben was a no-show, Uncle Marty "sent" a text, the Reverend lives all by himself out at the church and they have no need to go there until the rehearsal, Kelly's "suicide" is common knowledge, and Hunter is supposed to have gone home. If there had just been a line where somebody expressed SOME passing interest in Lucy's whereabouts, I'd be fine with it.
Harper's Island Death Gallery: how they died and who is still on our suspect list.
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So far no one seems to miss: Cousin Ben, Uncle Marty, Reverend Fain,or Lucy. Surely the maid who makes the beds would have noticed they haven't been slept in.
I am very disappointed in this show. It sounded like a great concept but the execution is lame.
I agree that Malcolm is a real self absorbed pig who would sell his grandmother for investment money.
No comments about Lucy (and the dog) really bother me as well.
No one must have liked her, since no one has noticed she's missing.
I'm still wondering why no one has come across that large hole/pit in the ground. I don't recall there being a large pile of dirt anywhere nearby so it couldn't have been filled in. With everyone running around this island, wouldn't someone have noticed something?
And no one else in the Seattle coastal waterway notices the boat with the dead body until some of the wedding party just happen to go out fishing in the afternoon?
If you look at the recent TV Guide, they have some updates within it involving 10 of the characters and what they'll be involved in next.
Judging by how few comments there are on this blog compared to when the show was on Thursday, I wonder if many have followed it to Sa****ay or will watch it tonight via TiVo.
Still find it entertaining compared to a lot of other shows currently on. I've changed my guess as to whom the murderer is numerous times so it seems to be working. I just hope the last show doesn't unmask the murderer as some unlikely person.
It doesn't bother me that nobody misses Ben, Marty or the Reverend. That all makes sense to me.
As for comments, comments tend to be pretty low on the weekends because people are away from their computers. I bet come Monday there will be more.
Yeah, could they at least mention the absence of some of these people? Marty I can understand, Hunter as well, but some Wellington has to be wondering where their cousin is, the wedding planner should know where the reverend is, and the bridesmaids should know where Lucy is.
Richard isn't responsible for the pool cover, way too obvious. Henry kindly showed up just afterwards, however. And the one death being an inadvertent suicide? Eh, no thanks.
Yeah, the execution of this show is lacking big time. I expected better from the people who were behind Jericho.
i know the guy who plays malcolm!! hes the only reason i'm watching this show(love him, the show, not so much). i went to school with chris and am soooooooooooo happy to see him get major screen time(too bad his eppy was the first sa****ay one).
did i miss something? did malcolm tell the others about booths death? cause the last thing i remember seeing on that was him lying to henry about it. but in your recap you mention they told everyone booth went back to seattle. so now im confused. did malcolm tell the other guys about booth? cause if so, i totally missed that. and if i missed that, well, how the hell would i miss something like that?
oh yeah and the fact that even at the friggn bachelorette party not one single person has said 'hey, wheres lucy?' is absolutely ridiculous.
I will stick with the show for the duration but it is upsetting that no one wonders about all the missing friends. It seems like almost everyone has a reason to want someone else to go 'missing.'
Sorry, AK. I typed that ***uming that's what the groomsmen would do and then when it didn't happen, I forgot to edit it out. : )
I still argue that the Reverend lives out by the church and there is not really a huge need to contact him until the rehearsal. I also think Cousin Ben was just chocked up to a "no show," which I can also buy. My friends have had any number of people no-show at their weddings and then apologize later. It's rude, but it happens.