This episode is meant to be a farce. The Oxford Language Definition of farce is: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. The writer of this definition must have based it on this miserable episode.
This episode is played off as a slapstick comedy. But, the mischievous family members, excluding the daughter, have kidnapped and murdered 6 men that failed to attract the attention of the daughter. Doesn't quite compare to The Three Stooges or The Marx Brothers.
And if the plot isn't horrible enough, the director obviously had never learned the timing and mannerisms of comedy.
Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, had murders but was comical. The Good Guys had numerous deaths but they were brilliantly written, acted and directed. This thing had none of them.
This episode is played off as a slapstick comedy. But, the mischievous family members, excluding the daughter, have kidnapped and murdered 6 men that failed to attract the attention of the daughter. Doesn't quite compare to The Three Stooges or The Marx Brothers.
And if the plot isn't horrible enough, the director obviously had never learned the timing and mannerisms of comedy.
Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, had murders but was comical. The Good Guys had numerous deaths but they were brilliantly written, acted and directed. This thing had none of them.