mjdembski-60900

I actually liked the way the story was done in flashbacks. Some of the subplots are a little hard to follow and not sure how much they add. They should have either spent more time on them and less on the main plot which drags. Acting was pretty good and I liked most of the actors. Scenery was beautiful on the island. Nice that there were no obvious goofs or inconsistencies.

But the plots drags, it should have been 6 episodes at most. Fortunately you can fast forward and not miss anything. It has the added benefit that you can skip of parts over Allison and Emily when they get annoying.

Allison is one of the most clueless, self absorbed, and annoying people in the world. Emily is clueless, annoying, and self destructive people for herself and everyone she deals with. Of course most of the staff on the island have more than their share of problems. It is almost as if the island is haunted with bad karma for everyone.

You don't have to "like" all the character for a movie to be good but you should at least care about them. If it wasn't for the fact that I really didn't like any of the main character I probably would have rate higher.

Plots may be a bit farfetched and hard to believe that pathologist really get into the weeds of investigating a case, but makes for a good story much of the time. A 2 hour show allows for the story to be fully developed, as time goes on it generally turns in one main story with two secondary story with each of the 3 main character taking one story. Acting is generally very good with good staging.

It had a good run for the first 20 years when it was clear that the writers began grasping for storylines and they became just too unbelievable. They also moved away from the 3 story lines with each of the 3 main characters heading up one of the stories. It then came the Nikki show and she just can't carry the full show.

Don't bother after season 22. The shows needs either a complete reboot or to be put out of its misery. It had 20 good years.

Series should have been cut to one episode If the cliches and plot twists that weren't needed were cut it would be a cleaner plot with a tight 90 minutes of run time. Of course the overdone music is too much also. So much of the acting is either over the top or completely flat. Clean up all the plot/ script/setting goofs of which there are many would have helped also. Of course the question remains on how so many people are clueless over so many thing and make so many bad decisions.

It is kinda sad. The basic story had promise but was destroyed by a bad director and producers that tried to turn it into something it isn't.

With fast forward to turn it into one hour of total run time it was sort of fun.