Settling into the second season, we've got photo sessions from hell, the misfortune of winning the lottery and a very bad child.
Episode 26: Photo Finish
In this episode, you had a photographer played by Patty McCormack. She was in a stagnated part of her career until she got an offer from a provocative magazine to take more risque photos. Any career satisfaction she might have gotten from that went out the window when Freddy started killing her subjects. The second story involved three FBI agents coming afoul of Freddy while investigating a family homicide in Springwood. 6/10
Episode 27: Memory Overload
In an early role for Kyle Chandler, he popped up as a student named Chuck. The character was fearful of his military father and sought protection from his alcoholic professor named Windom. There's a nice twist in relation to Chuck and Windom's real connection. The second story had a woman named Barbara being hoisted by her own petard for tax evasion, not to mention a talking computer. 6/10
Episode 28: Lucky Stiff
This episode really was just one long story with various twists and turns. Lenny and Greta Nordhoff were an unhappy couple but when the former won the lottery, the latter was pleased and schemed with her lover. Lenny died and Greta had to dig his corpse to get the winnings. Greta also killed her lover but then found herself blackmailed into marrying a gravedigger. It's a decently executed episode. 6/10
Episode 29: Silence Is Golden
Easily the best episode of the bunch. The first half focused on a shock jock named Rick Rake who incurred the wrath of a mime. By the end of the part, Rick lost both his wife and his job/voice. The second half focused on the mime, who was a jewel thief that tried not to kill anyone. Unfortunately for him, both his girlfriend and his fence had different ideas. There's a commentary from Freddy about bad women that's repetitive of the previous episode. 7/10
Episode 30: Bloodlines
Another episode where the stories were better connected to one another. The first half focused on escaped convict Woody Burton (Marc Alaimo) terrorising his estranged wife, Joyce (Sheree North) and son, Jack (Chris Nash), resulting in death. The second half then focused on Jack as a family man with a demonic daughter (Irina Cashen). The daughter in question was definitely evil and there's shades of The Omen in this episode. 7/10
Next blog I'll tackle Monkey Dreams, Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?, Dreams That Kill, It's My Party And You'll Die If I Want You To and What You Don't Know Can Kill You.
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