Interesting that ol' Rod didn't really insult the protagonist of this episode, as he frequently did with unsympathetic characters. Must have been pretty obvious that we'd soon lose respect for Erich anyway (albeit not for the actor playing him.)

If he didn't know it was the very definition of a hasty courtship.

"A Good Imagination" is great too. It's Robert Bloch's homage to Edgar Allan Poe, which is a potent combo.

From the same mind that brought us Conan the Barbarian, weirdly enough.

Yeah, I remember seeing it on one of its cable reairings. Somehow scarier for the main character not having any obvious sins she needed to be punished for. Poor girl was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's funny how the switch to color seemed to kill anthology TV, at least on American television. There have been attempts to bring it back here and there, but those lasting more than two seasons are few and far between. Tales from the Darkside is one of the more successful. (And they had a scary showing with "The…

"Lamentation" is definitely good. For weird/scary episode's of Millennium it's hard to beat "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury" which briefly features Lucy Butler. Partly because so much of it is from the POV of Jordan, who's a very special child but still a child.

Twilight Zone magazine had some great writers doing fiction for it, if you're a fan of horror and the less hardware-y branches of sci fi.

You're leaving AVC? Oh woe! I've loved your recaps on this, XF/Millennium, Community, the list goes on.

Savalas is so good here partly because he gets that it's funny. His anger and frustration in the marriage are serious and real, but initially he seems kind of amused at Tina's threats. Too much so. This is how he gets drawn into a battle of wills that he's going to lose. And of course as the water gets hotter, he…

I didn't know it was him until I saw the closing credits while rewatching the episode for this recap. Even before that I was thinking that this is very effective music, though.

Oh wow, I saw Trilogy of Terror (written by Twilight Zone stalwart Richard Matheson) when I was a kid. The first two stories didn't disturb me much, but the third was absolutely chilling. Especially the ending.

One possibility that occurred to me was that he hadn't grown at all. He was still 5'2, but had suffered a full psychotic break. That would mean he was still cut off from a jockeying career, but not for the reasons stated onscreen.

He definitely does nail the character's drunken self-pity. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he had trashed a few hotel rooms in a fit in real life, but still it takes a good actor to bring that energy to a part.

Wait, infertile on TZ. Trying to spread infertility as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. This is making a crazy kind of sense!

To resentful and infertile stepfathers everywhere: invest in family counseling. If you don't, your wife and stepkids will just spend the money on homicidal dolls anyway.

The piling-on against McNulty does seem a little excessive. Especially his getting fired. You can't really fire someone because you don't like the ideas they put in the suggestion box, can you? The suggestion box is an extra, not a basic part of the job.

I think the best moment, for Shatner's performance and the episode as a whole, is when the flight engineer is assuring him that they've seen the man on the wing too and he's babbling with relief. Then in mid-sentence, he freezes, and you know that he knows it's all a lie. So yes, I definitely think you're onto…

The Prediction (with BK himself in the lead) and A Good Imagination both kick much ass.

He was also in Fritz Lang's Blue Gardenia as a news photographer. Comic relief, since the movie overall was pretty dark.