I should preface this by saying I never watched Masters of Horror because we didn't have Showtime, and I just haven't gotten around to renting the DVDs yet, but I've heard mixed reviews of various episodes. It sounds like there were some pretty good ones.
However, I've been tuning in to Fear Itself every week.
We've seen five episodes now. And I've been disappointed by all of them, to some degree. What's killing me (hah) is that every one of them has had some potential to be good, if not great. And each one has screwed it up royally.
Tonight's episode, 'Eater', started out with great potential. I was actually excited, and really getting into it. It even had a genuine possibility of being actually CREEPY. It was GOOD.
And at the halfway point, they did something really dumb. But then it started to swing back towards good, so I had some hope.
But then the end came, and it was god awful. It was like the writers said 'eh, ef this noise', and ended it all. Literally.
It ended, and we sat there and looked at the screen for a moment. Then my husband says "this TV show is not living up to its potential."
"mm hmm" I agree.
"No," he says, "that's not even true. It's like it's showing you good, and then taking it away and giving you terrible."
I was just really disappointed in the turns this episode took. I never read the source material so I can't compare it. I also see people referencing 'The Washingtonians'; I've read the story (and thoroughly enjoyed it), but obviously haven't seen the MoH ep based on it. I gather they butchered (heh heh) that one too.
Won't someone please make some good short horror episodes?