Highlander (TV Series) Obsession (1994) User Reviews

I think Duncan was humiliated, not obsessed. I felt sorry for David. Poor Jill, no one cared enough to come and check to see if you were alive. Busy-body Anne again.

[reb-warrior · 7/10 · 18 March 2020]

Duncan's immortal friend, David, wants him to be his best man at his wedding. Only Jill, his fiance, doesn't want anything to do with him after finding out he's immortal. David can't accept that and he keeps stalking her. She goes to Duncan for help hoping he can talk some sense into David.

You know, I felt kinda sorry for Davis especially after seeing the flashback. I know he was an obsessive stalker, but he just so badly wanted to have a normal life. I also found his story about being a little kid indentured servant sad. It just seemed like he was kicked-down all his life.

Here we go with Anne sticking her nose into other people's business. Headdesk.

This is the first time we get a double flashback. We flashback to Duncan in 1882 where he is with Sarah. In the flashback, he has a flashback to 1872 when he is with his Native American family.

Sarah: "What did you do?" I could only shake my and head and think Sarah, YOU'RE the one that did this. She was married and lied to Duncan. She says her husband is a good man and always treated her well. Well, why did she hook-up with Duncan then? Guess she couldn't resist that hunk of burning love, eh? Because let's face it, it was a physical attraction that drew her toward Duncan. She didn't exactly break down devastated when she first thought he was dead, did she?

So was Duncan obsessed like David? I don't think so. He's telling himself that what is happening with David is the same as what happened to him. But he didn't stalk and harass Sarah over a long period of time. In fact, not at all. He just made one last appeal to her. I think what it really is, is humiliation. Sarah left him to be with another man. Has that ever happened to our highlander lover-boy before? Nope. The feeling must be totally foreign to him. I think he's confusing humiliation with obsession. He's embarrassed about being left for another man, and his own response to that. It's like when you do a bad thing and look back on it later in life and feel ashamed about it.

I mentioned in my last review that Duncan often tries to "fix it" the second time around when a situation arises that mirrors the past, and it always ends up badly. This is one of those situations. I don't know what the solution should have been. Seems unfair for Jill to ask him to kill David. How about just kidnapping him for a while until he comes to his senses. Yeah, I'm serious. This is fiction after all, and fantasy at that.

Did you guys chuckle when Jill fell off the balcony and nobody noticed and/or came to her aid? Or that Duncan and David never check her pulse? There have been occasions where people have survived a big fall. At the very least check to make sure!

I gave this episode a 7/10

Very weird episode

[xbatgirl-30029 · 2/10 · 19 June 2022]

There's something about this episode, the soundtrack quality combined with terrible acting and poor directing, that it comes across like it was dubbed into English from another language. That was my main takeaway: that it sounds dubbed and the ending sucks.

There's a very unpleasant surreal, dreamlike quality to this episode with intrusive, odd music. The tone was very different from other Highlander episodes. I just hated everything about this and how it meanders along. It is so bad, I was expecting the gang from MST3000 or Riff Trax to start talking.

The only positive is that it was nice to get a flashback to Duncan's Native American family. It does seem like if Duncan spends several years having a very close relationships, as he did with Tessa, it would be natural that he should remember them over and over instead of them disappearing from the narrative after only one episode. Although I know they really only showed up to put in context Duncan's emotional state when he then met Sarah.

Other than that, the ending is very disappointing. David comes across as completely insane and dangerous. His type will go on to victimize other women and Duncan is now complicit in allowing it to continue. Jill's death seems incidental to the other characters, like "oh that happened, what's next?" It seems out of character that Duncan let a violent predator go free. David earns no sympathy. There's no excuse or rationalization for his actions. He saw Jill as a possession and not an individual. Only his feelings mattered. He could easily sub in the next woman who comes along and then the next, because they're all just pawns to getting what he wants. It's not the equivalent to Duncan in the flashback, where he showed up one time to see Sarah to try to get an explanation. Sarah rejected him and Duncan was hurt (literally and figuratively) but then he left. David was delusional and treated Jill like an object he owned and deserved, right after we learn how bitter he was over his own upbringing of indentured servitude.

I've see these actors all in other shows and really enjoy them in general. They are not bad actors. Yet everyone's performance, including Adrian Paul, is abysmal. I can only blame the director and the script. Adding in that I am a fan of Lisa Howard, especially from Earth: The Final Conflict. But she has absolutely no chemistry with Adrian Paul and her character has worn out her welcome. It seems way too soon after Tessa for MacLeod to get involved with her. Plus, with all the people MacLeod alone tells that he is immortal, let alone what other immortals get up to, it seems unbelievable that the secret of immortals has not gotten out.

This is definitely not an episode I ever need to see again. One of the worst of the series.