The real Point Pleasant, New Jersey is about a mile from the ocean. A separate town which is on the ocean is called Point Pleasant Beach.
The episode "Unraveling" features a shot of a bus that Christina is on driving past a sign that reads "Now leaving Point Pleasant. Please come again." This is a reference to the final shot of the second season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997), a show on which Marti Noxon was a writer.
13 Episodes of the show were made but only eight episodes got to air because after the eighth episode the ratings were decreasing and FOX then canceled it.
The show was canceled on a cliffhanger.
Although, FOX only aired 8 out of the 13 episodes made they still released the 5 un-aired episodes on DVD along with the 8 episodes that FOX aired plus the un-aired pilot episode.
The show was not actually shot in the New Jersey town, it was also not as affluent as depicted in the series.