Harper's Island - Complete Season [DVD]

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Product Description All 13 episodes from the first season of the US slasher mystery TV series. A group of friends and family arrive for a wedding on an island where a series of unsolved murders took place seven years before. Now, the wedding guests start turning up dead one by one. Has the killer returned from the dead - or is someone else to blame? Episodes are: 'Whap', 'Crackle', 'Ka-Blam', 'Bang', 'Thwack', 'Sploosh', 'Thrack, Splat, Sizzle', 'Gurgle', 'Seep', 'Snap', 'Splash', 'Gasp' and 'Sigh'. .co.uk Review The DVD shelves are creaking with television shows waiting to be discovered, and here’s another. Harper’s Island is a clever, twisty drama thriller that’s nominally about whittling 25 potential suspects down to reveal one killer. Taking place across 13 episodes, the tightly-plotted narrative leaves room for many jump out of your seat moments, but crucially, it keeps you interested and guessing right through to the final episode. The event that brings the cast of Harper’s Island together is a wedding at the island of the show’s title. The same island where a series of murders had been committed seven years earlier and gone unsolved. And when more people start dropping dead, the accusations begin, and the mystery intensifies. Building up its tension extremely effectively episode after episode, and benefiting from the lack of star names--along with actors who were primarily getting their scripts on a week-by-week basis--Harper’s Island emerges as a terrific, engaging season of television drama. It’s inevitably a dish best served as cold as possible, and it does in truth borrow conventions and ideas set down by one or two previous shows. But heck, it works very effectively here, and is the kind of show where once one disc is finished, the next gets swiftly thrown into the DVD player. A cracking, and complex, whodunit… --Jon Foster