In its last two hours, “Harper’s Island” manages to capture a golden era of slasher-film glory. Henry shanks his bride to be in her crisp white wedding dress. Wakefield drags her lifeless and bloodied body through the woods and drapes her across a church alter like a sacrificial lamb. Henry kills his best bro after they guy risks his life to save Henry. And in a nice twist, Henry turns on his father, killing him to snuff out Wakefield’s plan to kill Abby. As if that’s not enough to satisfy our bloodlust, Henry then kidnaps Abby, who we now know is his sister, and tries to play ‘house’ or ‘blue lagoon’ with her on the Island.
“Harper’s Island” satisfies because it winds up all loose ends, with the exception of the cabbie with the bloody eye patch back in Seattle. It also satisfies as a ‘who did it’ that morphs into a love story, complete with the essential creep-out factor brought on by Henry’s incestuous desires for Abby. More important, “Harper’s Island” satisfies because ends before its writers could run out of ideas and strain plausibility, and before viewers grew tired of experiencing the same thing each weekend.
I thought that Henry’s love for Abby was meerly brotherly love. I mean after all I love my best friend too (not to the same extreme as Henry did) but it doesn’t mean I want to have sex with her or anything. I think it was a family love not a lets hop in the sack after I killed all your friends and family type thing.
That’s certainly a valid interpretation. However, I think it was said in the first episode by one of Henry’s buddies that Henry and Abby should have hooked up. I think Henry definitely wanted that to happen. There doesn’t seem to be any other reason for killing everyone and kidnapping her so they can live together alone.