"Sandwiches!" | The I-Land | Episode 1

The only reason I'm giving this show a watch is because of Kyle Schmid. If you know anything about me, you know that he's been a part of my world and imagination for over a decade. He is my character casting for Emmett/Nevin so.... pretty important. And he just keeps getting better with age. Like a wine. Or a well-kept craft beer.

We wake up on an island with no memory of who we are, where we are, why, how...

One wakes up with a conch shell, the other with a knife. Instantaneous mistrust starts.

They find that their identical shirts have tags with names on them. Not knowing if those are their actual names, they take these names as their own.

Moses's theory is that they were dropped there by aliens to harvest their organs.

Blair and Donovan decide to go for a swim in the unknown waters of this unknown island. For some reason they are surprised when sharks show up. Donovan is eaten. We do find out that Moses was probably a lifeguard at some point because he recognizes that Blair is panicking and rushes to save her from drowning.

Brody turns out to be super rapey and not nice. He attacks Chase at a waterfall of fresh water, which he decides to not tell the group about. When she comes back to the camp, she attacks him by smacking him with what looks like a giant wooden fish skeleton.

Chase has a dream of a tiny room, blood on the floor, and her shooting someone. Fun.

Oh, Donovan is alive! What? How?

Mason and Hayden find that everyone who woke up on the beach were exactly thirty-nine steps apart from each other. Everything they found buried in the beach had been thirty-nine steps apart. They walked a little further and found a sign thirty-nine steps away that read "FIND YOUR WAY BACK". Chase sees this as a figurative sign and not just a literal one. The group doesn't believe her so, she gets angry and smashes her conch. Inside the shell, it says PROPERTY OF THE I-LAND and there is a tracker.

Chase (Natalie Martinez)
K.C. (Kate Bosworth)
Moses (Kyle Schmid)
Brody (Pettigrew)
Taylor (Kota Eberhardt)
Hayden (Michelle Veintimilla)
Mason (Gilles Geary)
Cooper (Ronald Peet)
Blair (Sibylla Deen)
Donovan (Anthony Lee Medina)