Thoughts about Hidden Palms

Now that I've watched all of Hidden Palms I have a few thoughts:
1) Kevin Williamson is obsessed with dead parents.
2) He also has a thing for the outsider tomboy girl.
3) Michael Cassidy is amazing.
4) Kyle Secor was much more convincing as the uptight, sensitive millionaire dad on Veronica Mars than he is as the drunken, sociopathic millionaire dad on Hidden Palms.
5) What happened to Michelle, the mayor's daughter? Also, the mayor? And his skanky wife? Guess they were all replaced by Nikki.