This episode exposes the weaknesses inherent in forcing a one-hour format onto a successful half-hour show. It's overlong and obviously padded with pointless scenes and occasionally laughable dialogue, this one has the special added detraction of a shrill, one-dimensional performance by the miscast Pat Hinkle. He is absolutely intolerable as the bipolar self-absorbed lout who can't think of anything or anyone else but himself and his lost childhood. The repeated family bickering and shouting fail to develop character and only add to the irritation factor. Like most of these hour-long TZ's, you can figure out the ending about 15 minutes in. The concept and writing on this one is thin at best.
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The Boneyard Collection
(2008)
Painful to watch; a humiliating embarassment for all involved
5 July 2021
How Barbara Steele, Tippi Hedren and Kevin McCarthy ever get roped into this disaster is beyond imagination. About a dozen interchangeable airheaded bimbettes self consciously struggle to get by on cleavage as they mumble, mangle and stumble through a witless, boring script. The various male players are likewise strictly Z-list rejects. None of them have a shred of acting talent or screen presence. Combine this with jittery steady cam videography, dimensionless lighting that only enhances the utter cheapness of the sets, and writing that beggars the expectation of anything approaching coherence, and you have The Boneyard Collection. This movie is execrable. I can only compare the experience of watching it to stepping on a large pile of ripe, fragrant dung while wearing open-toed shoes. This IS the worst movie I have ever seen.
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