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Jeffrey Combs on Twilight Zone

post #1 of 4
3/30/03 at 6:50pm
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FYI for Combs fans (dunno if this has been pointed out already):

9:00 PM UPN Wednesday, Apr. 2

Twilight Zone
Placebo Effect; Cold Fusion
60 min.
A hypochondriac (Jeffrey Combs) may have a real extraterrestrial disease; and an infinite power source causes psychological strife. Sean Patrick Flanery, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Stellina Rusich, Gordon Michael Woolvett.
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post #2 of 4
3/30/03 at 7:55pm
Thanks. I haven't been watching the current Zone but I will check this one out.
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post #3 of 4
3/31/03 at 1:04am
Quote:
Return of the Living Krak:
It's times like this I wish I had cable. But most of the time I don't.
I don't think UPN is a cable station. I haven't checked the new Zone out either. I like the original and the 80's episodes were alright. There was this one episode, that i saw as a kid it really freaked me out, and i can't remember why. It was about a boy in the future, and he gets a birthday present. It was like a futuristic phone or something like that. I remember he had to have a license for it. He goes to get it, and at the end of the episode one of the instructors from the licensing place, said they killed him for being too smart, or something alone those lines.
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post #4 of 4
3/31/03 at 11:11am
I've seen "Placebo Effect" and "Cold Fusion." Neither of them is that bad.

Combs is great in "Placebo." He's got this really disturbing eye infection as part of the symptoms of the disease he has in the episode and the effect is unsetting to say the least.

The story itself is kind of a "gross" version of that anthology thing that played on SciFi last summer, the one with Malcolm McDowell and Miguel Ferrer. Anyone remember what that was? Where McDowell played the guy with all the ticks and behavior patterns that he had to do or else the world would stop? In "Placebo," you'll see the twist coming, but it's a good one.

"Cold Fusion" stars Sean Patrick Flannery (of "Powder" and "Dead Zone" fame) and isn't bad either. Some good ideas. Unexplained homicidal psychosis amongst a research team in the Alaskan wasteland. Think "Cube" meets "The Thing." Those with a not-so-sharp eye will recognize some very familiar stock footage in the opening scene. Shameless really.
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