Before watching: Airing as the 2nd half of the episode that began with A View Through the Window, there is just no way this can’t suffer by comparison.
After watching: They pulled off a truly great hour.
Cary Elwes is being tormented in bed by noises from the street below. There is music, but strangely no thumping rap. And vehicle sounds, but strangely not the worst noise offender on earth besides rap — Harley Davidsons.
He tries to watch a little TV, but it is all stories about crime, murders and explosions. He chances upon a documentary set in fictional that Archer State Park, and sets out that weekend for a little peaceful rest & relaxation.
He hikes up the side of a mountain. Well prepared, he pitches a tent (heh, heh) and cooks up some grub. That night, his sleep is once again disturbed. He finds another camper (Brian Dennehy) close by, hammering tent pegs into the ground, although it sounds more like he is forging a sword on an anvil.
They have a fairly cordial exchange, but it is a testimony to Dennehy that there is feeling of menace even though nothing overt I can point to.
The next morning, Elwes is awakened by a police scanner. He again goes to visit his noisy neighbor. Dennehy warns him that he “stumbled over a pile of bear crap the size of a Honda.” When Elwes confronts Dennehy about the scanner, he nicely offers to turn the scanner off. But when Elwes suggests that he was here first and that Dennehy should more on, he is not so friendly.
Later Elwes is fishing, Dennehy interrupts him to offer some tips on fishing. He also offers several ideas on what is wrong with the country. Again, there is nothing explicitly threatening, but Dennehy is just so intrusive and overly friendly. He tells Elwes about the serial killer that has been terrorizing the town. He also mentioned that he found tracks of the bear. Inexplicably, he also says that a bear has the exact same skeleton as a man, which is just absurd. When Dennehy pulls out a Rambo-esque knife, Elwes decides to take off.
The next night, Dennehy is again pounding his peg (heh, heh) within earshot of Elwes’ new campsite. When Elwes accuses him of stalking, Dennehy is a little nasty this time. The next morning, Dennehy brings his dead dog, killed by a grizzly, to Elwes and together they bury him.
Elwes and Dennehy both pull off their characters perfectly, providing just the right amount of misdirection to make the episode work. I could bitch about that pile of bear crap, but I don’t think we’re supposed to think too much about that.
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- Brian Dennehy hassled another outdoorsman and got what was coming to him.
- His daughter hassled the Borg.
This is the one.
As with all windows, this one gets more interesting when there is an unsuspecting hot babe seen through it. A woman in a 19th century dress only slightly less conservative than a burka strolls into the yard. Darnell is transfixed by this hottie who can neither see nor hear him, just like his wife. He continues watching as a young daughter shows up and the family is frolicking in this pastoral paradise. With his binoculars, he is able to see that she has no ring — so possibly a young widow living with her father.
On a technical, level, I appreciated that the camera mostly kept its distance. The family was usually observed from afar as Darnell watched from outside the barrier. If there were close-ups, it was because a family member approached the barrier, or was observed through binoculars.[2] This maintained the other-worldliness of the situation and also illustrated Darnell’s detachment. He was clearly grafting himself into this happy scenario. Not being able to interact or hear them, the fantasy was perfect, but impossible.
And then it ends. Awesomely. An ending so excellent that I hope I can forget it and be thrilled by it again some day. They could have gone a few different ways, but they NAILED IT!
My first inclination was to post a JPG of the old Monopoly Free Parking tile and close up shop for the day. I always knew I’d get to an episode of something that was so mind-numbing that I just couldn’t go on — I just thought it would part of 
They retire to their gentleman’s club for a drink and to meet with their friend Koslow to discuss 
His wife is a little more sympathetic and reminds her husband how they were broke themselves just three years ago. So they go.
When Jeanie was 10 years old, Lila summoned Bragner and he came so quickly he still had the operatic clown tears on his face. Lila asked him to take a dress to Annabelle. Jeanie is a spoiled brat and throws it on the floor. When he went back to Lila, she was dead.
Hee Haw Honey
Jess-Belle asks Granny Hart for a love potion. In payment, she offers a pearl hair-pin, but Granny won’t take it because it also contains Silver. She will accept something else, and says it will become obvious what it is “in the midnight hour of time.” Not the brightest candle on the tree, Jess-Belle says, “Whatever it is, I’ll pay.”
She explains how to kill Jess-Belle for good so she doesn’t keep coming back. He follows her instructions and kills her off for good.
Jeffrey Jones is teaching an Egyptology class in which Anthony Michael Hall is enrolled; sadly for 
To protect themselves, each year the locals delivered to Ramseth’s tomb a human sacrifice. When Ramseth was disappointed that each year’s offering was not Nefra, he would go berserk and kill each girl. Ya know, Nefra really could have taken one for the team and volunteered. Bitch.
She arrives at Jones’ homes and he leads her down to the basement, which might have actually been scary if she were a 
He enters the tomb and sees Ramseth standing erect, heh heh. Possibly because Nina has donned a suit similar to Princess Leia’s golden slave bikini. Ramseth gets jealous of Jones and begins choking him, then pulls his brains out through his nose.
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