This continuing…series, I guess we’ll call it…may be short lived. Last week, with no apparent warning, CBS moved Harper’s Island from Thursday to Saturday.

I say “no apparent warning” because the only way I found out was that my DVR was smart enough to record it without being told it had switched nights. A switch to Saturday is often the death knell for many a show, but if this guy is to be believed, the rest of the episodes will air. At this point, though, there’s only nine episodes left, so CBS isn’t really losing a lot airing them all on Saturdays. And, anyway, all the cool kids are at home at 9 pm Saturday nights (like me!) so…

Anyway, this last episode found the groom and assorted douchy groomsmen come across the body of Hunter Jennings out in the ocean. Henry, the groom, didn’t go onto the boat, though, so the body was not identified by anyone. And the boat, with aforementioned body, was duly sunk by bloated/broke groomsman after he went aboard and grabbed Hunter’s bag o cash.

Henry, being the civic minded one, wants nothing other than to turn the money in, but is thwarted by bloated groomsmen and the group decides that they must at least hide the money until after the wedding. And, of course, the least suited to the job is chosen and sent out with a sack of cash into the woods.

Surprisingly (or not, I suppose) nervous groomsman isn’t sliced up by the killer, but actually shoots himself (thanks to some bumbling interference on bloated groomsman’s part) in the leg and (I’m guessing he hit an artery) quickly bleeds out.

Other items of NOTE:

  1. Trish (the bride) discovers the disturbing sexual relationship between her step-mom and brother in law…also, her mother’s china (flown in by big sis) is mysteriously and silently destroyed. Also, a drunken Trish falls in the hotel pool and nearly drowns, but is saved by the same cheating brother in law.
  2. Jimmy Mance spends some more time with Abby. We find out he’s a nice guy by driving around an old woman every week so she can get her errands done. It’s the perfect cover for the killer!
  3. Someone left out old news clippings of the Wakefield killings for Abby to find…and she did.
  4. At the bachellorette party (oh, didn’t I mention both the bachelor and bachelorette parties took place?) a psychic freaks the f! out when she touches Abby.

So, yeah, no killer inflicted death in this one. I don’t know, maybe he/she was taking a bath or something.

Anyway, I’m still holding to my Jimmy Mance theory until he ends up dead. The wife thinks we haven’t actually seen the killer yet but until I see Jimmy’s head rolling on the ground I stand pat on my position.

All in all, this episode was pretty lame. Well, the niece/flower girl is still the most disturbing aspect of the show. And the moment that Henry realizes his stripper was a girl he knew as a kid, and he is no longer interested in seeing her naked because she feels like his sister, was pretty hilarious. Hopefully, a bit more killings and/or killer related info will be dished out next time.

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