If a grocery store sells paperback books, they most often carry many titles churned out by the author Stephen King. Usually, they’re top-sellers and are prominently displayed. There are new titles so often that is seems there may be a sweatshop in some country where children are ordered to write scary stories really really fast — then the Stephen King Corporation glances through them to find the best of mediocrity.

‘Haven’ appropriately represents this, and would be perfect for watching on your smartphone while waiting in checkout lines. Crying without tears. Humor without laughter. Plot without substance. Acting without appropriate skills. Haven has it all, even the kitchen sink.

$3.00 an episode, or $20 for a season? Anyone willing to pay those prices would be a swampland merchant's dream. Nothing but reruns on regular TV, and, Haven is part of your Netflix or Prime streaming subscription… maybe… It's one of those shows you can miss gaps or episodes of, and it really doesn't matter.

There’s so much choice when it comes to good television these days, and while Haven doesn’t come close to representing that —you could do worse.

In my opinion the series started out good and sort of stayed interesting up to season 2. From there on I was a steady decline. Towards the middle of season 4 I finally gave up on this show

I agree with the critics above except that I would say it really started to improve about the middle of the second season -- though the "two Audreys" sub-plot bridging season 1 and 2 was well done. They've kept up with the "trouble of the week" format for the most part but the overall mythology has grown and adds more substance to the later episodes. And they've gone a touch "darker" which adds a nice contrast to the idyllic setting. If I were to recommend, I'd say skipping the first 12 episodes wouldn't leave you at much of a loss.

One of my favorites. It is kinda weak in the beggining of season 1 but it gets so much better. I'm so excited for more Haven!

Level "Entertaining" • 6 :heart: • You may or may not enjoy this.

I'm glad it got a proper ending.
I prefer the early episodes, mainly because they focussed upon different "troubles"; whereas the latter ones were a bit dull because they mostly focussed upon a single story element.

This show has such a warm cast of characters and a great performance from the female lead, Emily Rose. I believe that, unfortunately, there was network interference to spread this show out as long as possible. The reason being is that there is clearly a narrative here, but it takes a back seat to whichever "Trouble" is the highlight of the episode.

The problem I have with this being a police crime procedural is that the actual police are rarely even in the show. Nathan is anything but a detective/police officer. He claims to know all of the officers by their first name and yet never speaks to them. One other glaring mistake is that Nathan doesn't have a radio. In fact, nobody seems to know what one is in this city, er small town.

In short, if you're interested in a supernatural drama that you can have on in the background, then this is for you. There are also lots of allusions to Stephen King's works throughout. Don't take this one too seriously and you won't be disappointed.

My teen daughter and I loved this show.

i enjoyed the first 2 seasons, but then the show just got too boring with the same tired formula used in every episode, but i slowly, pushed my way through the entire series, and again the ending was disappointing and expected ... and an easy out for the conclusion

Well Haven never been my favorite series, but it has been really entertaining. Despite all my negative opinions through all five seasons, I always come back for more new episodes. Now it's ended. Sad that I won't get anymore troubles. But I relieve that Haven get the proper ending. Not perfect but way better than any other canceled series that proudly wasting my time.

Haven ended. I watched all 5 seasons.

I miss the 3 mao* main characters and their interactions more than the show. The show overall is entertaining- builds up slowly s0ome episodes/season are ok, some go0od to great so if you like sccifi, heroes, eureka, waerehouse 13 etc give it a shot upto s2 atleast- but some will like it some will not.