I was 7 years old when this was broadcast. The first three episodes of season two were ultimately disappointing and I was not terribly excited about watching another tepid episode. My father's interest had waned as well but I managed to watch this up to a point and ended up walking away. I ended up buying the series on DVD as I promised myself I would if the future ever allowed this. It did!! Though, I bought it for the first season only having found so few of the second season worthwhile. So now I've watched this episode a few times. Like the first three of this season it isn't entirely terrible but it isn't all that original either. We sort of covered the expanding human mind in the first season with 'The Sixth Finger' and 'The Man With The Power' and did it more fantastically. Here, it is a Jekyll/Hyde story with an obvious comment on the drug culture of the 60s. Ho hum. He takes the drug which he mixes up in his kitchen and gets a pronounced brow, heavy cheekbones and a bulkier frame. The strength he exhibits as he holds a security guard off of the ground while he putters around in the cupboards he has broken into was compelling. And he can hypnotize people, too, folks! Naturally, with this drug-induced gift comes the usual delusions of grandeur as he attempts to recruit -- or should I say force a friend to join him in his mad quest. When this doesn't work as planned it becomes a hostage situation where the Hyde-persona is shot a few times but shakes it off since he is able to control his bleeding....or so he thinks. He hobbles out the street, bleeds, and dies. Why? No idea. If it was simply the failure of his concept of his true abilities then that is a mediocre way for an Outer Limits fiend to die. He only thought he couldn't die?? Lame! I considered alternate reasons - one being that one of the bullets had shattered a bottle of one of the ingredients he was carrying in his pocket and overdosed him, etc. Oh well. He just dies and reverts back to his original self in a very unoriginal ending to yet another episode that fails to go to critical mass.
Review of Expanding Human
