Harper's Island

CBS's thriller "Harper's Island" moved to its new time tonight at 8 p.m. central, quite possibly to gain more viewers.

The mini-series has only aired four episodes, but I still only know three of the characters and hadn't made a point to remember them until tonight's episode.

Intially, I thought it would be an interesting mystery, but only in that "I know this isn't going to be particularly good and definitely not scary" kind of way.

I usually don't mind watching these kind of things, despite my low expectations of them. Most things labeled "horror" or "thriller" generally aren't too good anyway. The last mini-series I watched was ABC's "Kingdom Hospital" - don't get me started on the ending.

"Harper's Island" - from what I can tell - is basically about the wedding (and days leading to) of Henry and Trish. It takes place on Harper's Island where some people, including the main character (I guess you could call her that) Abby's mom, were hanged from trees.

Abby moved away to LA after the deaths (don't they all), and surprised everyone by returning for her best friend Henry's wedding, whom she seems to have more-than-best-friend feelings for. The freak murderer was thought to be dead but is alive and still killing people, and won't stop until he has Abby.

I think most of the murder plot was shown in the second episode, which I seemed to miss chunks of. I can't decide if it's even worth watching online to catch up.

The storyline is kind of slow and tends to focus more on the inner dramas of the wedding party, but, needless to say, I'll keep watching it to - if nothing else - find out what happens at the end, or at least listen to the background music, hoping for more The Kooks and Kaiser Chiefs like in past episodes.