The first several episodes can be watched online
HERE, including the pilot.
I had forgotten exactly how HEARTBREAKING the reactions of the characters were to news of Laura's death. Everyone from Deputy Andy to her parents to classmates and principal.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft