The second season began with a strong start with this memorable gem of a tale that's all about a fortune teller, a gold-digger, and a slob! It's definitely one of the sillier-toned stories in the show, although there is one moment of fairly insane bloodshed towards the end. It's directed by the same guy who did season one's "Only Sin Deep", and is almost a complete rehash of that episode, only I find this one to be a slight improvement all around, it's a lot less corny and more fun. I like the subtle 50's setting, it's cool how not all of them were set in current times. Jeffrey Tambor's over the top performance is just too much, after beholding him in this you'll probably never look at the man the same again! "Charlie" was a great loathsome yet almost pitable character, I love how his appearance and manner are so utterly gross and obnoxious that he comes off more like some kind of bloated monster than a human, he actually looks like he stinks, you'd think even gold-diggers would have standards! He's really menacing and creepy in the big scene which is one of the most straight-up insane moments of the series, where he brutally slays Cathy while repeatedly roaring out like a lunatic the old adage""If I can't have you, nobody can!" And one of the things I love the most about this show is that part of me feels the horror of the spectacle, but another really wants to laugh! Pre-Ghost Demi Moore was good as a selfish and greedy woman with her eyes on the prize. She wasn't such a bad person that you hated her or anything, but you couldn't exactly like her either. I love the scene where Cathy and her friend imagine various ways in which Charlie might meet his foretold violent end, all of which are shown in hilarious detail, like him getting flattened by a big 'ol mack truck because a car wouldn't be big enough! Cathy would have probably been okay if she'd have been able to resist going home to rub it in. I didn't really feel too bad for either of them, as they were both pretty nasty people, just in very different ways. I liked sassy character of Madame Vorma the best.", she had a really cool attitude and her adorable little dog and how she broke the fourth wall and it was intriguing how you weren't sure if she handed out half-truth bad predictions on purpose for kicks or not. What happened to Cathy was like a self-fulfilling prophecy on the loss of her job and then her life. She never even needed to marry Charlie, as the money had nothing to do with him! It's not a particularly surprising twist, but it does a good job of keeping you wondering how it's all going to turn out. Still a great episode that holds up, one of many of a fantastic fun and macabre series that I'll love forever. X
Review of Dead Right
