Really? This looked like somewhat of a promising series. I tuned in possibly because my 62-year-old mother was very excited about it, or maybe because it seemed to have the same tone as Harper's Island. Harper's Island was an eerie murder mystery show that did everything write. The writers knew how to form realistic characters and the emotional aspect of the show was, I'm sure, felt by any person who viewed it. In response to what akingofcomedy said "But it could fall pry to the same fate as 'Harper's Island.' A quick death from lack of sustainable viewers." Harper's Island has many viewers, it did not fall to a "quick death" but was a miniseries. Many murder mysteries such as this can only be miniseries. Happy Town is striving to be something more, and it does not look promising. The plots are cliché, the dialogue so dramatic, deliberate and over-written that I can't help but sigh about 10 times an episode. Sometimes I just look at the screen and ask the writers "Really, do you actually think someone would say that in real life?" Cliché, cliché, and cliché. I don't know what college these writers went to but I can't believe their lack of vision on this. I don't understand how they can't see the number of things wrong with what they are writing. I am possibly most annoyed at the depiction of the first-grader in this show. She's seven, not three. The parents treat as if she's a toddler and she acts as if she is one. I doubt the writers know a seven-year-old because they are writing Michelle Tanner lines. I haven't heard "you got it dude" yet but I am seriously expecting it. Good luck not scoffing while you watch this show.
Review of Happy Town
