Harper's Island Broke Me

July 5, 2009

I was ecstatic about the new series called Harper’s Island beginning. I fought myself in wondering what I would do. I am scared easily and most defiantly prefer watching horrifying things such as this proclaimed bloodbath with someone else who could protect me from the on-screen fictional characters. But they made the commercials look so good and when they said things like the murders were happening again, and who is the mystery killer, can you guess? I was drawn in like a shark to blood. Although I fought off my urge to watch the pilot air, I couldn’t help or stop myself from tuning into the pilot on CBS.com for the full episode the next day.

I was thrilled knowing that I could watch the death toll rise ever Saturday night after I put my 2-year-old daughter to bed. The fact that I had known most to all of the characters were soon to be goners, I had no problem not clinging to a certain one. But just like a soap opera, they threw in the twists and turns to this graveyard show. I was sucked into the fact that Cal wanted to marry his girlfriend Chloe, but Sully was after her too. I loved the fact that Cal lost the ring and the whole bar-brawl was amazing.

I never really get too attached to characters, and I am most certainly not a person who cries at the TV (although I have had my moments: Tammy Winslow dying on Guiding Light and Jonathan claimed atop his dead wife whom he’d been married to barely half a day.) Here I sat though, Saturday night, the June 27 episode was just ending and there they were- Cal and Chloe stuck on the bride with John Wakefield. Cal just saved his fiancé and now, John Wakefield was going to take their lives.

A sword through Cal’s torso and over the bridge he went. Chloe sobbing in the back and her last words, “You can't have me,” struck my crying cord. I was uncontrollable sobbing over my honey bun cake. It was horrible- I was rooting for them to make off the island and live happily ever after. No such luck when you are running from a serial killer on Harper’s Island.

To watch the episodes you missed or get caught up in all the action, go to www.cbs.com/primetime/harpers_island/ to watch full episodes. And to keep up to date on who is killed and who is still fighting for their lives, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper's_Island. And then like the millions of other people hooked, tune in July 11, 2009 for the special 2-hour finale of the show. Find out who lives, who dies, and who the killer is.