Point Pleasant

Plot synopsis:
A young girl named Christina washes up on the shore near Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey during a violent storm. After being resuscitated by lifeguard Jesse Parker, the girl is taken in by the family of a local doctor, the Kramers, and quickly befriends their teenage daughter, Judy. The show follows Christina's attempts to discover who she really is, and to learn what happened to her mother, who disappeared shortly after Christina was born.
It soon becomes apparent that Christina's presence has a strange, profound effect on the people around her. Emotions are heightened, repressed feelings and secret desires awakened, and inhibitions weakened, turning what once were friendly competitions into bitter rivalries, romantic rivals into violent enemies, and so on. Freak "accidents" have a way of befalling those with whom Christina becomes angry.
Sinister forces have their eye on Christina, believing it is the girl's destiny, as the "child of darkness", to "bring [the world] to its knees". Christina is the Antichrist, the child of Satan. The resulting tension between the good and evil aspects of the girl's nature provides the basis for much of the show's conflict and suspense.
Christina is plagued by terrifying visions of death and destruction, glimpses of the dark future she seems destined to help bring about. A handsome, charming stranger named Lucas Boyd arrives in town, determined to help guide Christina toward her destiny, and Jesse Parker, who has become romantically involved with Christina, discovers that he may be the only one who can prevent the girl from ushering in Armageddon. Ultimately, Jesse is able to choose between accepting Christina, which will cause her good side to prevail, or rejecting her, which will cause her evil side to prevail. He rejects her and the series ends on something of a cliffhanger with Christina leaving Point Pleasant as it is engulfed in an apocalyptic holocaust.

Tags: good versus evil, paranormal, murder

Review:
Also I felt cheated by Fox, just as I was really getting into the program "WHAM THEY CANCEL IT"!!!I hope that the rest of the episodes will be either aired VERY SOON or put to DVD.
It is a teen supernatural thriller, but not like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - the monsters are more or less human and there is very little comedy to speak of.
Yes, the pilot was a turn-off for many but the show got over ten times better with the second episode.If you haven't caught "Point Pleasant" yet, you definitely should.
I really enjoyed this Gothic/Horror TV series, it was very well acted with a superb cast, especially the main character Christina, and was an ideal show for those of us that are missing the Buffy & Angel TV series that have now both unfortunately finished.
It was the one show during the time of its run that I looked forward to every week.Elisabeth Harnois and the rest of the cast were great, and the story got better and more intense every week.Sadly, this was one of the most poorly promoted and scheduled television shows ever...
Most people who are not into the supernatural type series (Buffy, Angel, Charmed, and etc.) probably would not like this type of show purely because of the genre.
A lot of the complaints I've heard regarding the show aren't unfounded- it can be a little slow, even boring, in places, the quality of the episodes and acting is variable, and at times the soap opera elements (who's dating who etc) seem to act as a distraction from the overall story, rather than complimenting it.However, the show does get stronger by the end- a lot stronger in fact.
Elisabeth Harnois deserves credit also- she seems to be the focus of a lot of criticism, but for me she really got across the vulnerability of Christina (you kinda want to hug her) but is also very convincing when the darker side of her arises.To conclude I guess there's only one thing to say- when I watched the closing shot of the final episode I found myself really wishing for more episodes.
Coming back to Point Pleasant only I conclude that the story is great (I can't wait to see how Christina manages to handle the the outside and especially the inner threats).
She said she has scoured the internet to find the second season, then to my horror I find that FOX isn't releasing one, I am horrified to say the least, it's the best series I've seen along with Alias, which I also love.
It's a good thing that parents aren't allowed to take this attitude with their children.As a big Buffy fan, I latched onto Point Pleasant as Marti Noxon was executive producer.
Christina's situation reminded me of Willow in Buffy season 6.It helps that all the women in PP are very attractive - even the mousy Judy (Aubrey Dollar) is actually gorgeous if you pay attention - and despite some criticism of Elizabeth Harnois she really does put in a gutsy performance and doesn't hold back in the more emotive scenes.
if people can watch some reality shows time and again surely for the benefit of the like minded supernaturel loving kind, there must be something fox can do to gain ratings?.
Being acquainted with the real town of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ (which is where the show takes place, not Point Pleasant, WV, as mentioned earlier), I'm curious to know what kind of effect a show like this will have on that town.I have been waiting for a show to come and fill the void that was left when shows like Buffy, Angel, The X Files, went off the air.
Take a primetime soap, and mix in a little sci-fi, and this is what you have : A great new unique series called point pleasant.
i really wish Point Pleasant had been given more of a chance to find an audience.while i do believe it was a bit slow for the first few episodes, i think it picked up considerably as it went along.and the last four or five episodes especially,i found quite compelling and fraught with tension.the last episode was a real nail biter of a cliffhanger ending(if that makes any sense,and if the show had picked up from that point,i think it would have found an audience.as it is,it only lasted 13 episodes.one minor annoyance for me,was that i felt the acting was not always as good as i'd hoped,but that too improved as the series went along.all in all,i found it worth watching and would recommend it to others.7/10.
I believe the show probably had good ratings but Fox wanted to boot it for the new series True Calling.
Having missed the first 5 episodes of ABC's Lost, I have been itching for a new sci-fi/drama to start watching and when I originally hear the pitch for Point Pleasant, I was looking forward to it.
Sure, the premise sounded interesting enough, but if I wanted demonic events in a small town I could write my own story or watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.That brings me to my point.
If you have already seen an episode of "Point Pleasant", then you know that it is a good- versus-evil teen soap about a girl born to a woman from New Jersey but fathered by the devil.
If you like the digital effects and production design of "Charmed" (which are actually pretty good) and its mystical premise (which is extremely silly), and the Tori Spelling quality teen soap melodrama of "90210"; then you are "Point Pleasant's" target audience.
You should be asking yourself how you missed the boat when it was still playing on Fox. Maybe you need to expand your circle of friends.Although Grant Snow does a pretty good imitation of Jason Priestly, "Point Pleasant" is hardly on the level of "Tru Calling" (although better than its weaker abbreviated 2nd season).
Snow, who looks amazingly like Priestly, is a considerably better actor and the main reason to watch "Point Pleasant".
Harnois is a former Disney Darling gone bad, moving from "My Date With the President's Daughter" to things like "Point Pleasant" and the "R" rated "Pretty Persuasion" (2005).
Christina, who has been living at elite boarding schools monitored by a bunch MBAs in league with the devil, takes an ocean cruise and washes up on the shores of New Jersey's Point Pleasant.
"Point Pleasant" is unique in that the story only appears to be a simplistic "good vs evil" tale.
The story is told from Christina's point-of-view and to her (and to identifying audience members) the extremes of good and evil seem equally warped; needing each other to even exist.
Christina occupies a more moderate middle ground along with a couple of allies but exploring this concept appears to be something intended for the second season that never happened.There are 13 episodes on the DVD plus a pretty good behind-the-scenes featurette.
Unfortunately the pace really began to pick up at about the time broadcasting ended; with episodes 10 ("Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Choked") and 11 ("Missing") exceptionally good.
I am not really sure why FOX cancels good TV-shows, just like the lost the rights on "The Shield "series, like "Firefly" and "Point Pleasant"...I mean , I always thought that this television series had some Stephen King kind of vibe on it..I guess the main reason for canceling a show is :"The viewers".When they don't reach the amount of viewers they want to reach then it is easy to say in the heat of the moment:"Let's cancel the show, it doesn't matter if it is a good show or finished or something..Just cancel the thing".They really don't have got a reason for canceling it and that hurts for both the fans and the Cast/Crew working on it.
'Cause the Cast/crew has put their entire effort in making these good shows, so they are more involved when it gets canceled and I guess that it hurts just as much for them then it is for a mother who has lost their Newborn child..The management of those companies don't think about that when they cancel it , and believe it or not I just have come to know of this shows existence (just released in the Netherlands)and as I should have known that It got canceled because I never heard of this show.
just look at Firefly that should of gone on for yrs on my opinion but hey to FOX and other corporations like that don't give a frick bout what the public think do they....??Anyway good series, should be finished.
Just like Fox to cancel good shows and keep the bad ones.
It so typical of FOX to cancel good shows and keep the bad ones and any network that is syndicated such as NBC, CBS and especially CBS who is losing the the syndication rating wars followed closely by FOX.FOX let a good show like this over American Dad, Don't Forget the Lyrics, King of the Hill and other trash in there line up and axed this great show give me a break.
"Point Pleasant" is a 13 episode TV series with a problem.
And the same applies to "Point Pleasant", here is an intriguing (if clichéd premise) about a young woman who washes ashore a small town, bringing with her misery, destruction and the unraveling of deep dark secrets, which is all linked to her being the daughter of the devil.
Network: Fox; Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Teen, Guilty Pleasure; Content Rating: TV-14 (violence, language, frightening imagery, strong sexual content); Available: DVD; Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season)One day, off the coast of the sleepy north eastern beach community Point Pleasant, a beautiful, blonde teenage girl named Christina is dumped in the ocean and washes up on shore where she is promptly taken in by the mired-in-tragedy Kramer family  father Ben (Richard Burgi, "24"), mother Meg (Susan Walters, "Seinfeld") and Christina's adopted sister Judy (Aubrey Dollar, "Dawson's Creek").
The apocalypse is coming, Point Pleasant is Christina's training ground and three local families have a role to play in it.
While the idea of a demon child appearing in the form of a beautiful girl is not necessarily new, I like that "Pleasant" centers around a main character that we are not sure will end up being a force of good or evil.
Characters are left open ended, to fight again, but Christina's journey in Point Pleasant seems to be over.
First "Felicity" is consigned to the backwaters of ITV2, not even getting late night terrestrial airings a la "Undeclared" and "The District," then "Alias" gets the bum's rush from Sky One and Channel 4 and relegated to a post-midnight slot on Five (if ever an American show was justified in having English villains, it's this one), and now Channel 4 and its sister cable channel E4 delay "Lost" until the summer - ostensibly because UK audiences might not have been able to accommodate both that and "Desperate Housewives" simultaneously (hey, Americans seem able to) - but fall over themselves to show "Point Pleasant." Come on guys, "Forever Young" and "Taking Care of Business" weren't THAT bad.It must have been its status as co-creator/executive producer Marti Noxon's first post-"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" project that convinced them to swoop in early, not to mention the idea of a cross between said series and "The O.C." - but what it's most like in theory is the likes of "Rosemary's Baby." In theory.
In practice, it reminds me horribly of the one and only time I tuned into another attempt to fill the hole left by the departure of Buffy Summers (figuratively, not the crater left by Sunnydale), namely "Hex." The trouble with this series about a young woman called Christina (Elisabeth Harnois) found in the sea off the coast of the title town, who happens to be a key player in the Forthcoming Final Battle Between Good And Evil and who also happens to be Satan's little girl - though the apple may have fallen farther from the tree than Old Harry's representative (Grant Show) would like - is that it's a supernatural soap opera, and a dull one at that; do we have to have so much time devoted to all their love lives instead of moving the story along?
"The O.C." may be a prime time soap, but both that and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" come equipped with interesting situations, sharp dialogue and likable characters, all of which are sadly absent here.Things aren't helped thus far by the acting, particularly the lead.
Those shows, and even "Dark Angel," were/are more than aids to masturbation, but Elisabeth Harnois isn't really up to the job; though not in the Alba league she's undeniably a beauty, but she shouldn't start practising that Emmy acceptance speech just yet (not that the rest of the cast is that much better).So with all this loaded against it, capped by some painfully clumsy and unsubtle storytelling (such as the way Christina realises she's got powers of good as well as evil) and a chronic lack of humour, is it any wonder that - like the more accomplished but ultimately equally tiresome "American Gothic" - it's just about impossible to care one way or another who'll win?
Every time it comes close to being decent it slips back into its morass, and even allowing for it being on network TV and pitched at the Ryan-and-Marissa demographic, nothing in it is as frightening as the sight of Nastassja Kinski fondling a demonic creature in "To The Devil...A Daughter." I've never gone for the theory that Marti Noxon ruined "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but watching this tripe makes you wonder; a waste of some good behind-the-scenes talent like Ben Edlund and Diego Gutierrez (not to mention Dina Meyer in front of it), "Point Pleasant" has none of the former and is almost entirely the opposite of the latter.Rescued from the lowest score only by a theme by Danny Elfman (!) which is far too good for the series it's written for.
I watched the first episode of Point Pleasant.
I haven't liked many new shows when they first started - I didn't like Buffy the series at first (I really liked the original movie and the series was quite a bit different); the same thing goes for the first airings of Star Trek Next Generation and many others.
After several episodes, most of the new sci-fi type shows DO finally evolve, with the writers and actors finally molding the characters and plot into a wonderful story once they have 'matured'.Give Point Pleasant some time!
Thank the networks for then bringing on shows like LOST, Carnivale, and Point Pleasant!
Point Pleasant is about a girl named Christina Nickson (Elisabeth Harnois) who is rescued by from the ocean by a local lifeguard named Jesse Parker (Sam Page) and who was brought home by Judy (Aubrey Dollar) and her parents.
While she struggles controlling the demon inside her and the powers that come with it -- the fight her soul has begun, as the town Point Pleasant becomes the ultimate battleground of good versus evil!
The Dark One's minion Lucas Boyd (Grant Show) arrives in town to watch over Christina.The show starts out with an interesting premise.
It shows."Haunted" recently released on DVD (starring Matthew Fox before he hit it big with LOST) and if you're looking for an average-yet-entertaining short-lived TV series that you might've missed between the cracks, I highly recommend that over this garbage.
And one of the best points is the acting, especially by Elisabeth Harnois, who manages to portray the duality of Christina's nature, and Grant Show, as the kind of villain you love to hate.
The citizens of Point Pleasant are like the people of Twin Peaks, moral small town people up front, but very immoral down below and as the show unfolds, you begin to realize Christina has a choice of becoming good or evil, since she is the devil's daughter but has a mortal mother.
No wonder Point Pleasant was chosen to be Christina's first playground for her evil side, everyone in the town deceives her.
The Twin Peaks influence probably turned me off at first, since I loved that show, but given some time and the ability to watch all the episodes (Fox only aired up to show 8, but I only caught up to show 5), it has given me a new appreciation for the show.
Point Pleasant was a slow moving series and needed all 13 (a great number) episodes to be seen by viewers.
The ending leaves you with the feeling that "evil won" and really, it is a nice twist, made even more sinister by the fact the show isn't coming back and Christina is still walking down the street with thousands of ravens behind her (one of the main symbols of the series) soon to be destroying the whole town while Boyd watches.
I guess the casting knew these guys would be headed for greatness.I highly recommend this series to people who like supernatural or surreal shows like Twin Peaks, Buffy, Angel or Reaper.
Point Pleasant, a new show on Fox, is enjoying successful ratings.
While Fox is known for short-lived series (Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba, That 80's Show, Oliver Beene, True Calling and etc ) I think this one is one of the better shows that will enjoy a healthy run.
In "Point Pleasant", Christina, a beautiful, mysterious blonde washes ashore on a quiet New Jersey town and stirs up trouble.
So, of course I would like this show because point pleasant has a little bit of both.
I was never a fan of Buffy, but POINT PLEASANT really got my attention.
Yes, she's the daughter of the Devil, no surprises there.The show is set in a small coastal town called 'Point Pleasant' and mostly focuses on the relationships of the teen characters.