Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

13 Weeks. 25 Suspects. 1 Killer.That's not strictly true, I watched it all in two days, I suspected only a about 8 different people throughout and in the end I'm pretty sure more than 1 person made a kill at some point. Anyway this series was well worth watching. I did have my doubts at first as I didn't want it to be left on a cliffhanger that won't be resolved since the show wasn't renewed for any further seasons. I really liked the setting of the show, the island was so big that nobody really knew what was going on and that kept me guessing. Although most of the characters make questionable decisions throughout the series, it was just one of them shows that kept me interested. It's no where near perfect but so watchable, loads of twists, characters dropping like flies and I kept wanting to find out more/get closer to the reveal. Some of the dialogue was a bit corny at times, and the music sometimes made it feel like I was watching a soap. Overall the style and watch- ability of the show is very similar to Scream: The TV Series. The reveal scenes were handled very well even though I was right about the killer with 2/3 episodes to go. The small description of John Wakefield (Harper's Island killer of 7 years previous) worked well to set the scene, then everything else is on this island until the end where we see some extra scenes to wrap the show up with a satisfying and resolved ending. I wouldn't really be interested to watch any more episodes if it was to be about what happened next to any surviving characters but a new series with new characters and possibly setting, I would watch. Overall, far fetched but compulsive viewing. 8/10.

I started watching this after seeing the commercial for it. It looked creepy so I thought I would like it. After the first episode I saw that the producer was Jon Turteltaub and I remembered that he made that other awful series Jericho. Harper's Island is okay to watch once, just because there are nice different ways of murders. For the rest it was pretty annoying, especially the soundtrack and the sound effects. It felt like I was watching one of those endless soap series. A shot with a couple of medium actors, spice it up with some awful music, fade out with some awful piano music, go to next shot, repeat everything until the end of the episode. The murders where the only good thing in this series. The story itself is just predictable and the actors are just average actors. Watched it once and then deleted it.

It does. So please read this, lest you waste your time watching this crap.Harper's Island is so bad you just keep watching in utter fascination. How much worse will the next episode be than the one before? Which characters' heads will be on the block this time? Why do all these people get killed anyway, and why can't they stop this sociopath when he comes at them with only a (big) knife while they're all wielding shotguns? Why do they shoot at him without taking proper aim? And why don't they shoot him when he's only a few feet away from them? And worst of all: where's the FBI? Two police officers come to investigate and are promptly shot. Won't it be noticed in their Seattle police station that they're absent the next day? But why do they show up only after at least a dozen people on the island have been killed? Surely two murders should have sent investigators over to have a look.The cast is okay, and would have been perfect in a Scream! clone. I love the Scream! movies, because they're funny (inbetween the gore - unlike the Scary Movie crap). Apart from Christopher Gorham I liked every actor. Elaine Cassidy is a very nice young lady, and Katie Cassidy is absolutely gorgeous - at least with make-up. The other actresses are excellent, and so are the actors. Problem is, each time one of them gets butchered you'll think, Oh, no, not him/her! But in a moment you'll just shrug and say, Oh, well. Apart from the Cassidys' characters and the kid and her mother you don't feel the slightest empathy with these people. I'm not a bad person. I wouldn't even swat a fly (only mosquitoes). But these are all cardboard characters running around like chickens waiting to be slaughtered. Oh, well. The story goes on and on, more and more people get killed. Then, suddenly, in the eighth or ninth of the thirteen episodes the (main) killer shows up. So what if his name was mentioned from Episode One? You don't introduce a new character near the end of your story, least of all your killer.As for suspense, I didn't feel any. There was a killer on the loose, and he had an accomplice. It was so plain that it couldn't have been Jimmy, as he was the #1 suspect, and Abby's sweetheart. Certainly not the token Brit either, or one of the girls (even though the brat was rather creepy). None of the young male guests either. Even Sully, despicable in the beginning, turned out to be a nice guy once under pressure. It couldn't but have been Henry, whom I had disliked from the very beginning. How can a silly git like him - poor for starters - win the heart of such a sweet rich girl like Trish?I have yet to watch the ultimate episode. When I do, I'm sure I'll feel as frustrated as I was after watching Alcatraz or The Event, two series that were discontinued after just one season. I have one comfort: at the end of Harper's Island there will hardly be anyone left, so there can't be a second series. Thank goodness for that!(Unless they start over like An American Horror Story. Hey, there's a great series to watch!)

OK so this review has a couple of small spoilers but I do not reveal who the killer is!My brother was obsessed with this show and demanded I watch it, so I bought the DVD and started watching it one day...and finished watching it the same day! I couldn't stop watching it, I was hooked after the first episode. When I first turned it on I really had no idea what it was, my brother had just said it's about a killer who kills someone every episode and you have to guess who it is. It sounded like my type of show. In a nutshell, thats the plot! Trish and Henry are getting married on Harper's Island, which was where Henry and his best friend Abby grew up, although the island has been plagued by sadness since a killing spree seven years ago by the evil John Wakefield, whose victims included Abby's mother. I found the flashback scenes terrifying, when Abby found her Mum hanging in the tree my heart broke for her, it was so sad!They are joined by their friends and family, and the first few eps concentrates on the lead up to the wedding (although at the end of each ep someone is killed). It's not until around episode 5 that everyone realises that something is terribly wrong, when the Trish's father is killed in a spectacular fashion in front of everyone!Then it's basically a fight for survival, everyone is stuck on this island with a maniac on the loose. I did not guess the killer. My gosh talk about a shock. I pretty much considered everyone else, but when the killer was revealed my jaw hit the floor, I could not freaking believe it. No one that I know who watched it correctly guessed the ending.I loved all the characters and the actors who played them. I was really rooting for them to survive, especially my favourites Cal and Chloe. And i have to add, the island was fantastic, minus the murders it would have been a great place to get married, and it made the perfect setting for the show.Honestly, I could rave about the show all day, it was brilliant. I love a good horror/thriller, and I am so sick of reality TV, this made for a great change.I wished they would make another series, this was such a fantastic show!