Post by California gal on May 25, 2014 11:35:12 GMT -5
Sedgewick Curse is one of the relatively few season 4 eps I watch with any frequency. It's also one of those episodes that grew on me. I didn't care for it that much with the first one or two initial viewings.
The plot is an old one, used many times in horror movies. Often in the movies some crackpot doctor needed the blood from a beautiful woman to keep his beloved wife young and/or alive. In Sedgewick Curse, the blood of men afflicted with a particular illness was the key to creating a youth-enhancing serum for the members of a family whose inheritance was to die young. The beautiful daughter of that family was particularly obsessed with youth. Her younger brother was being passed off as her grandfather because he aged well beyond his years so rapidly.
I wonder if anyone has a theory whether the runaway buggy was "real," or if it was a set-up to lure Jim to the Sedgewick manor, considering he had been asking snoopy questions (and might ask more) at the hotel where the senator disappeared. My opinion wavers back and forth!
Artie has a couple of good disguises. First the old retired British officer with the gout, who gets rushed into the steam room for a massage. (At least it gives the Angels a rare opportunity to view a shirtless Artie!) Later he returns as a Frenchman who just happens to have the right disease to attract the attention of the folks looking for the youth serum. (I can't remember what the name of the disease is; I should have written it down last time I watched!)
In the latter disease he tricks the bad guys into thinking he drank the drugged water and is whisked off to the mansion to be part of the great experiment.
Jim, in the meanwhile, is enjoying the strange hospitality of the home. The weird housekeeper tries to keep him from coming inside in the first place, then comes to his room to warn him to leave, despite the raging storm. Jim has the requisite fight in the bedroom with a couple of henchies. He managed to not get speared by the trick bed, And he finds the elderly men, one of whom was once the vitally alive senator. Then he has to escape from the cell being filled with presumably poisonous gas.
The creepy doctor seems to be everywhere. In the end, he thinks he has created a serum from Artie's blood, but Artie pulled the old switcheroo for distilled water after distracting the doctor with ventriloquism. (See, there WAS a reason for Artie to suddenly be fooling with a dummy and imitating Señor Wences!) Of course the beautiful Lavinia goes a little nuts and injects herself with what she thinks is the miraculous serum. Instead, it immediately causes her to age. And why is it always the hands that start to wrinkle first?
I don't find the episode as eerie as it tries to be. But it's fun.
I'll say 7 of 10 for Sedgewick Curse.
The plot is an old one, used many times in horror movies. Often in the movies some crackpot doctor needed the blood from a beautiful woman to keep his beloved wife young and/or alive. In Sedgewick Curse, the blood of men afflicted with a particular illness was the key to creating a youth-enhancing serum for the members of a family whose inheritance was to die young. The beautiful daughter of that family was particularly obsessed with youth. Her younger brother was being passed off as her grandfather because he aged well beyond his years so rapidly.
I wonder if anyone has a theory whether the runaway buggy was "real," or if it was a set-up to lure Jim to the Sedgewick manor, considering he had been asking snoopy questions (and might ask more) at the hotel where the senator disappeared. My opinion wavers back and forth!
Artie has a couple of good disguises. First the old retired British officer with the gout, who gets rushed into the steam room for a massage. (At least it gives the Angels a rare opportunity to view a shirtless Artie!) Later he returns as a Frenchman who just happens to have the right disease to attract the attention of the folks looking for the youth serum. (I can't remember what the name of the disease is; I should have written it down last time I watched!)
In the latter disease he tricks the bad guys into thinking he drank the drugged water and is whisked off to the mansion to be part of the great experiment.
Jim, in the meanwhile, is enjoying the strange hospitality of the home. The weird housekeeper tries to keep him from coming inside in the first place, then comes to his room to warn him to leave, despite the raging storm. Jim has the requisite fight in the bedroom with a couple of henchies. He managed to not get speared by the trick bed, And he finds the elderly men, one of whom was once the vitally alive senator. Then he has to escape from the cell being filled with presumably poisonous gas.
The creepy doctor seems to be everywhere. In the end, he thinks he has created a serum from Artie's blood, but Artie pulled the old switcheroo for distilled water after distracting the doctor with ventriloquism. (See, there WAS a reason for Artie to suddenly be fooling with a dummy and imitating Señor Wences!) Of course the beautiful Lavinia goes a little nuts and injects herself with what she thinks is the miraculous serum. Instead, it immediately causes her to age. And why is it always the hands that start to wrinkle first?
I don't find the episode as eerie as it tries to be. But it's fun.
I'll say 7 of 10 for Sedgewick Curse.