“In Sickness and in Health” is the one episode I’ve been waiting to see in the Fear Itself anthology series. The reason for this is PSYCH’s James Roday and Maggie Lawson star in the episode. Regardless of the season, PSYCH is always in my top five shows on television. It’s a very well-written show.
I was hoping for some of that great writing would come into play here, thinking that maybe Roday would have a hand in the script like he does on PSYCH. Looking back, however, even if he did help write an occasional joke, this episode was never going to get very much praise from me.
Roday and Lawson wondering why they agreed to do this show.
The fact that Roday and Lawson are dating in real life makes this episode all the better. Yeah, this is a horror series, but you know they must have had a little fun with it in-between takes.
It didn’t take long for me to have some serious doubts about this episode. In fact, it was about the same time that Samantha received the note that things went south. Why would she believe such an outrageous thing in the first place? Why would she act the way she did?
James Roday, who played Carlos, was just terrible to watch. I don’t blame him for it; it’s the writing, not the acting. He played a psychopath through most of the episode, and for no reason. I had a hard time believing much of what happened in this episode. It was really tough to stomach. Everything was unbelievable.
I was pretty pissed when the big twist was revealed. An entire hour was dedicated to setting up a huge plot twist, revealing Lawson’s character, Samantha, as the real serial killer. If this plot were that of a movie, I would have demanded my money back. Why must this entire series be entirely composed of M. Night Shyamalan-style twists, revealed in the last one or two scenes?
One or two more episodes like this one, and NBC should pull the plug on this suck-fest.
On a lighter note, The X-Files veteran William B. Davis had a role in the episode. I haven’t seen him in anything in quite a while. It was good to see him again.
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