Fear Itself: Spooked
By fred | June 13, 2008
So now he’s a PI, and this is when comes Meredith (Cynthia Watros), a wife asking him to get her the evidence, “the evidence [she] needs to make him pay“. And clearly every time they met, right from their first meeting ever, you could tell there’s something “wrong” with her. The way she said those words, she obviously wasn’t just asking for proof that her husband was cheating on her.
Really, at first I thought she was gonna ask him to actually kill the guy or something, cause there was something else at play here, the girl’s crazy it’s obvious. So as soon as I saw the paintings of the kids on the wall, inside that haunted house, I thought of her. And while everything was very well done, the way the house was “spying” of the people there, how it was materializing to live people’s darkest secret, the one thing they couldn’t live with, and asking them, pushing them to commit suicide, was all nicely done (Expect that when he was rushing to the other big empty house, there shouldn’t have been no lights then I’d say, but…), it wasn’t ever really surprising either, you were never really in the dark.
The whole psychological aspect to Siegel, his past actions haunting him, his dark secret when he killed his brother, with a gun, it was all very well played, there’s no question there. But it was also all very typical of the genre, and quite predictable all along the way. So by the end, for the “real” confrontation between Meredith and Siegel, there were no mystery left for us to find out, no questions hanging, no answers we were looking for.
We knew she played him all along, we knew what was really going on, and while at first I suspected that she was one of his past victims, the fact that the guy we saw him kill in the opening scene was always around made it not too hard to guess that he and Meredith had to be linked somehow, like he could be the brother she mentioned earlier, the brother who made big mistakes, but was willing to make up for them, if only he had had another day.
And even the final “twist”, Siegel dying fro a gunshot, from the very gun he asked not to see ever again earlier on, even that you could sense it coming from miles away. Once again this episode brought us a very typical and predictable story, and once again the final “twist” didn’t work. But still, it was much better than the first episode, and despite all at least characters had some background and depths this time. Things are improving, without a doubt, so maybe next week we’ll actually get an episode that’s actually really good.
I just want to add a little something : as a big fan of Lost I was thrilled to see Libby Cynthia Watros back, and while she does play the sad/depressed/crazy women perfectly, I love to see her in something different. For instance, when at one point in the end she finally stood up to Siegel, telling him how easy it was for her to push him there, now that was great, much better (and sexier) than just being depressed and crying. I loved that part, and I also loved her smile at the end.
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Shows: Fear Itself
