Review of The Mill

Bonanza: The Mill (1960)
Season 2, Episode 4
4/10
Weird episode
14 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Tom, a wheelchair-bound man is manipulated by a farmhand, Ezekiel, into thinking there is something going on between his wife, Joyce, and Adam. Then with Ben.

First of all, how does a farmhand get away with all of this? Tom doesn't even like him. Nobody ever heard of firing their own employee before? It was so odd how Tom and Joyce put up with him.

Ezekiel feeds into Tom's jealousy of Adam. Suggesting there is something going on between Adam and Joyce. So this seems to be the premise of the plot, right? But wait, out of nowhere in a sudden flipflop, it then turns out Ben replaces Adam as the one Tom becomes jealous of. Thinking that now Ben and Joyce have something going on. But wait, out of nowhere suddenly Joyce and Ben kiss thereby, making Ezekiel and Tom right. Now suddenly Ben and Joyce are in love. It's weird. Lol.

I kind of wanted Tom to not be killed. I wanted to see his sense of horror once he was sober, at what he had done, gambling away his home and his wife to Ezekiel. And how he was manipulated. They didn't even bother to show when Tom was killed. What exactly was the altercation? How did Tom finally man up to Ezekiel? All of this took place over two days. Lol.

This ain't no Othello. It's Bonanza for goodness sakes. So no.

I don't know what this was. Just a weird episode where everyone was acting odd. This would be a skip-it if I did another rewatch. 4/10.
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