Season 1, Episode 15
"Answer Me"
At first, this episode was really, really promising. It features an actress renting an apartment in New York City, and she keeps hearing a telephone ring in another room. It starts to make her very angry, and she's informed that no one lives there, and the former occupent strangled herself to death with the telephone cord (okay?). No matter what she does, even checking the empty room itself, the phone simply keeps ringing, and ringing, and ringing. Okay. Stop. Before I continue, I will say the best twist to have in this situation would be if the actress herself committed suicide, and much like in Devil's Advocate, she be forced to relive her death over and over. THAT twist would be pretty damn frightening. Instead, what do we get??.....a possessed telephone. You read that correctly. She herself falls victim to the telephone.
Good: I hate the twist ending so much because it had SO much potential. The set, the woman's performance, and the mystery it COULDVE been would be the perfect episode. Everything else was just so on point.
Bad: That twist really brings everything down a notch. I know I said the end of "Snip, snip" was anticlimactic, but tolerable. This episode, however is completely ruined by it's twist.
Great, right up until the end.
Grade: 6/10
Note: I also found that a character in a previous review, "Fear of Floating", is actually portrayed by the same woman who voices Lisa Simpson. She also starred in the wonderfully terrible Stephen King film, "Maximum Overdrive"
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