Last week’s episode of Eleventh Hour brought about another unusual case which involved drugs instead of some bizarre conspiracy. I prefer these to the conspiracies since there seems to be a conspiracy on every show on TV these days. I like it when a show uses a good group of characters to make the show more dramatic than some sort of over-the-top story.
An outbreak of bizarre behavior in a small Texas community had Rachel Young and Jacob Hood investigating everything from the local water supply to a bug repellent. Initially the bug repellent was thought to be the problem, but that didn’t quite pan out. It took a fairly long time for Hood to figure out the cause, not before he felt the affects of the poisoned water in fact.
Rufus Sewell as Jacob Hood and Marley Shelton as Rachel Young
When I see people point out the fact that bottled water is mostly a scam, I often wonder how many people actually see this and stop buying it. Bottled water has it’s place, but it’s not to be consumed by everyone when perfectly clean water is available in your kitchen.
The cause proved to be a small shipment of water pipes which were made to contain large amounts of PCP. This supply of pipes got mixed in with other shipments and the chlorine in the water ate away at the PCP-laced pipes, making some of the residents hallucinate and some even lost their temper.
One of the reasons I liked “H2O” is because of the characters. I really liked the father, mother, and son we were introduced to. This felt like an actual family and not something thrown together for an episode of TV. It felt familiar and very real.
My biggest complaint was with the prop department. I forget the exact scene (time stamp-wise), but there was a scene which showed a piece of pipe that was being cut. It didn’t look like a real piece of water pipe at all. It was far too flexible to be placed in the ground and be considered a water pipe. It was laughable… and sad, really.
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