Harper’s Island was once the scene of a gruesome series of murders. Now, seven years later, family and friends gather on the island for a wedding, but one by one they begin to die.

This limited series initially passed me by the first time it aired. It was only after reading a ratings list of TV Horror series that I remembered wanting to watch it and decided to seek it out.

In all honesty the first episode didn’t do much for me and my first thought was that this was going to be another let down, but I persevered, I watched the next episode and that’s when it got me. I was now officially hooked on “Harper’s Island” and for the next few nights I burned through the entire series.

One thing I truly enjoyed about the show was the writing, it was seriously so well written that you can physically feel the tension, so much so infact that it has you sitting on the edge of your seat. It’s obvious a lot of work went in to the story.

Each episode leaves you on such a huge cliffhanger that you get vocally annoyed when the credits start rolling and rush to get to the next episode, not a lot of TV shows manage to have that effect on me but this one certainly did.

With thirteen episodes in the series the story is able to flesh itself out properly and have more depth to it, it’s because of this that you really get drawn into what’s going on and become invested in the characters and the thrilling story.

Talking of the characters, you have a vast array of them but it works well with a big cast and with each episode you’ll find yourself pointing the finger and suspecting each one of them of being the villain, like I said earlier it’s got great writing.

Also the actors do an outstanding job. Sure, I’ll admit it can come off as a bit cheesy sometimes but if you’re patient with it then you will be rewarded with some entertaining storytelling, though I must warn you it can be addictive.

None of the cast knew if their character was going to survive to the end of any episode until the day before they got the script. Rather than letting them read about it in the script the job of telling an actor that their character was going to be killed in the next episode fell to the Executive Producer Karim Zreik, a job that earned him the nick name “The Assassin”.

I think this was an absolutely great idea as I feel it helped keep the cast on their toes and it also added to their performance and aided in keeping that tension filled atmosphere going throughout the show. The viewer and the cast both had no idea, it was great.

“Harper’s Island” seems to have been overlooked, lost in the shuffle which is a real shame. I feel if it were released today it would get rave reviews, a hit for someone like Netflix. If you haven’t watched it I suffest you give it a look. If you are going to watch it don’t look up anything about it, the less you know the better.