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DVD Review: Point Pleasant - The Complete Series
by R.J. Carter Published: December 12, 2005
"She's the child of darkness. Let the world have its way with her. When it does... she will bring it to its knees."
Everyone has their secrets in the seaside town of Point Pleasant. They've had them for centuries, in fact, but they've hidden them, making the port village a clean little tourist spot.
All that's about to come out, though, when Christina (Elisabeth Harnois) comes to town. Found floating in the water, this beautiful girl with the innocent eyes is more than she seems. Abandoned by her parents, she becomes a boarder of the Kramer family. And when Christina gets upset, bad things start to happen. Because Christina's father isn't the man who raised her, but the Prince of Darkness himself. Only her mysterious mother seems to have been a player for the light, leaving Christina with a soul that wars with itself -- she wants to be good, but evil just comes so easily; particularly when there's so much natural darkness in the world around her already. Nearly everybody is having an affair with someone else, and almost no one is above a little chicanery.
Richard Burgi (The Sentinel, Desperate Housewives) is Dr. Ben Kramer. He and his wife Meg recently lost a daughter, but he hasn't told Meg that he's uncovered evidence it was a suicide. Dina Meyer (Birds of Prey) plays Amber Hargrove, the voluptuous vixen and single mother of Jesse Parker's girlfriend, Paula. Amber wants the good doctor Kramer for herself, and she's not beyond doing the underhanded to get his wife, Meg, out of the way -- particularly when she falls under the influence of Lucas Boyd. Boyd (Grant Show) is sent by the powers that be to be Christina's immoral compass, making sure that everything that can go wrong, does go wrong, and that the prophecies of destruction that begin at this place come to pass.
Even golden boy Jesse (Sam Page) has secrets, ones he doesn't know he has. His father isn't who he thinks it is, and we learn that he's set up to be pretty much the mirror image of Christina. It's this spiritual magnetism that attracts and repels them, leading up to their eventual confrontation in the series climax. And that's the eventual downfall of Point Pleasant as a series -- the very premise cries out that there be an ending. Not the kind of setup you want for a continuing series.
Point Pleasant has all the makings of one of those cult television shows, cut off in its prime and forever petitioned for a comeback by hardcore fans. As a series, it just didn't have the built-in staying power. But as a maxi-series, this "O.C. meets 'The Omen'" chiller makes for a great dark fantasy weekend marathoner.
The three discs come packaged in two slimline snaptite cases, and feature five unaired episodes, as well as a featurette on "The Making of Point Pleasant"
Point Pleasant The Complete Series
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
01. Pilot
02. Human Nature
03. Who's Your Daddy
04. The Lonely Hunter
05. Last Dance
06. Secrets and Lies
07. Unraveling
08. Swimming with Boyd
09. Waking the Dead
10. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Choked
11. Missing
12. Mother's Day
13. Let the War Commence
Special Feature: "The Making of Point Pleasant"
