Sunday, July 12, 2009

You May Call Me the Queen of Horror and Open Letter to CBS

Have you been watching Harper's Island?

If not, you have been missing out. The series finale was last night and not only was it exciting, tense, and sometimes puzzling, but...

it also proved that I am the Queen of Horror.

You see, for those who did not follow it, Harper's Island was a 13-episode show involving a group of childhood friends and their families going back to Harper's Island for a wedding of one of the couples. However, for one girl in particular, Abby, it was her first return to the island since a serial killer killed 6 people and strung them from trees, including Abby's mother. The series promised that one or more main characters would be killed each episode and it did not disappoint. It also hinted that the killer was among them. The characters began falling "one by one" in each episode (as the creepy child sang in the beginning) while viewers tried to decide who was the killer and/or killers. It was going to be like a mini horror movie spread out over a season and wrapped up at the end. You know I like me some horror movies.

I named a suspect on the Daemon's TV forums around the 5th episode. (Note: if you follow the link you will learn the plot and the name of the killer). I declared the person the killer numerous times again here, and here, and here. It turns out I am right, so I thereby anoint myself Queen.

For those of you who have not yet seen it and plan to watch it, I will not spoil it for you here.

For those of you who HAVE seen it and want to discuss it and the end, leave a comment! (Note: Comments may contain spoilers.)

And for those of you that like talking about and dissecting shows, go to Daemon's TV. It's a great site that has write ups on all of the current and upcoming shows and no, I am not paid to say that. I am currently following the True Blood reviews. Yes, I am a nerd.


And, now, an open letter to CBS:

Dear CBS:

Thank you for adding Harper's Island to your lineup. More importantly, thank you for seeing it through to the end. I know that it was quite the ratings disappointment which prompted you to move it to Saturday nights, but I, for one, am so happy you decided to run all 13 episodes for those loyal viewers. In fact, I believe those loyal viewers may have turned on more people to the show with each new episode.

There is nothing more disappointing than watching a series with an arc or mystery and getting invested in the characters, only to have the network drop it in the middle due to poor ratings and leaving the regular viewer with no answer, resolution or closure. Yes, Reunion* and FOX** I am looking at you!!***

So, for hanging in until the end....CBS, I thank you.

Dani



*Reunion was another mystery show about high school classmates, one of whom which was murdered, who reunite for their 20 year reunion and you had to piece together the puzzle of the murder and who you thought the killer was. They even waited until around the 5th or 6th episode to name the victim.

**FOX would be the network that, unlike CBS, decided to just cancel the show after disappointing ratings leaving viewers such as myself saying "WTF?" and "I hate you FOX". Well, maybe just me.

***I am still bitter over the whole thing.

7 important things being said:

Andhari said...

I FEEL YOU. It always sucks when network just drop your favorite shows sometimes by stupid reasons like not enough rating when actually quite a lot of people like it but they refuse to see it because it's all money in their head. We need more shows like this ( or in my case Reaper, dropped by CW. Not horror but funny ) because shows like Gossip Girls or whatever it is are getting OLD.

*~Dani~* said...

Andhari - I agree. And I liked Reaper too. I did not manage to see every episode because I would forget when it was on, but it was good!!

Jennifer said...

I do not watch Harper's Island, but you make it sound very good and know I wish I would have watched.

Sandie said...

Dani, it was so much fun hearing your thoughts every week, so thanks for sharing :-) Oh and I still can't believe you picked the right killer so early on, haha!

And I totally feel you about "Reunion," I'm still bitter about that one too.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on True Blood in the coming weeks :-)

Jamie said...

I am so disappointed that I missed this show. It sounds great and I'm going to CBS.com as soon as I leave here. I am still upset with CBS for dropping 'The Ex List' after three episodes. I was hooked after three episodes and some people don't do anything on Friday nights and need a good TV show to watch.

Living Dees Life said...

i love horror myself. i hate to say i have not heart of harper's island. i will try to find it somewhere and watch it.

*~Dani~* said...

Jenny - you can still watch! Go to cbs.com - they have all of the episodes online for free.

Sandie - thanks for visiting! We did have a blast! We will continue the fun with True Blood!

Jamie - let me know what you think once you watch it at CBS.com. I agree with you, too, - there is never enough good programming on the weekends. Having said that, I know feel old.

Blaez - you can find the episodes at cbs.com. Let me know if you watch them and what you think.

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