This episode was quite good. In it, dickish radio personality "Mandrake" constantly talks down on his listeners. At the beginning of the episode, he mentions a dead man was discovered in his car before coming to work. This tidbit is one of many little clues that lead up to the big reveal, which is done pretty well. For the first part, he just shits on people for having opinions etc., but as time goes on he begins to recieve calls from people in different time periods. THIS is where alarms start to go off. In the end, we find Mandrake was the one who died in the car (surprise, surprise) and that whole night was a ruse by the Devil himself to get Mandrake adjusted to his new job: to constantly take new calls...in hell.
Good: This episode does absolutely brilliantly in leading up to the twist, and some subtle clues are dropped along the way. The big one was Mandrake's appearance slowly turns more demonic looking as the episode progresses, given he does end up as a demon. Its small stuff like that, or the room getting smaller later on, that provide great unease.
Bad: Mandrake has a conversation with the Devil. In a brilliant episode it's a painfully cheesy moment, as it goes on for a while. I get that it had to be revealed that Mandrake was dead, but maybe using the Devil's voice more subtly would've been suitable. After we discover this, we see Mandrake actually working and recieving calls in hell. This isn't as bad, but I just wish it would've ended a tad more ambiguously.
Grade: 8/10
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