Astronaut Jeff Barton returns to Earth with a hero's welcome, following a trip to Venus, his adoring wife leads the cheer, but it isn't long before she sees a chance in him, haunted by nightmares, and permanently cold, Jeff is back, but something's changed.
I'm comparing this to most of the episodes from the first series, and if I'm honest, I think it's a somewhat average episode, it feels as though the show has lost some of its bite, some of its creativity.
It's a good story, how many sci fi horrors have we seen over the years with a similar plot, astronaut goes into space, something returns with him....maybe not original, but a good setup for a bit of horror.
Geraldine Brooks is very convincing as the concerned wife, I found her very sincere, the problem for me, Shatner, don't curse me for this, but I think he's wooden here, sure he's insanely handsome, and has a degree of presence, those opening sequences of him in uniform, talk about film star looks, but compared to his more familiar roles, I found him somewhat raw here.
The ....monster, I thought the out of focus shots were decent, once they focused on it, they lost me.
It's alright, it's not one I'd rush to again.
6/10.