My Review of Doctor Odyssey: "Halloween Week"

 

Written by Joe Baken And Byron Crawford

Directed by Tessa Blake

Robert (to Avery): "Halloween. The one week where my great vessel becomes a clown car."

There's always that divide with Halloween, isn't there? You've got those who revel in it and those who are far less enamoured with it. Funnily enough, our four main characters are evenly split on Halloween.

For Max and Tristan, it's just a lot of fun but also another case where their rivalry reared it's head again. Fortunately not over a girl but due to the fact that they seemed to be in sync with costume ideas. Needless to say this annoyed Tristan more than it did Max as there was a Costume Competition that he seemed to win every year.

Being annoyed with Max upstaging his costuming ideas certainly made him paranoid and on a ship where a lot of the clients were displaying their own symptoms (one guy was sweating blood, another zombie like), Tristan himself also succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.

On the plus side, Max and Avery did get to him in time and a costume change did seal his win of that competition, so this was mostly a win for Tristan. Now what about everyone else this week?

Robert's dislike for Halloween was something fairly sympathetic. He didn't really hate it, he just didn't like that he missed out celebrating it with his children when they were growing up. At some point, we're going to meet his kids and I'm assuming here, grandchildren, right?

Max and Avery on the other hand were best utilised in a story involving a lesbian couple who decided to go look for cursed treasure. One half of the couple nearly lost an arm until Avery came up with an alternative. It was also nice to have that off ship as well as giving a bit more screen time to Corey. 

- Both Max and Tristan had Jack Sparrow and Neptune/Poseidon as costume ideas before Tristan went as the Captain. Max and Avery as medical versions of Dracula and Nosferatu was amusing.

- I sense a bit of a potential rivalry between Avery and Vivian when they briefly had the same costume idea. 

- It only took them five episodes to actually mention The Love Boat and not in a way that amused Robert.

- Chronology: It's Halloween, hence the episode title. 

I found Halloween Week to be a lot of fun for all of the main characters. Also while this show isn't horror, I did appreciate the attempts to try and create some horror among the patients. Tristan was also giving some Final Boy vibes at one point in the episode.

Rating: 7 out of 10