One of the strongest episodes of the show: a social parable with fantasy elements and a haunting ending. This one will stick in your memory long after many other "Tales" have evaporated from it. It's intellectually complex, too: the woman (a very good performance by Maura Swanson, who, surprisingly, only has one more credit on IMDb) is not portrayed as an one-dimensional "monster". Other episodes that you might want to check out if you liked this one are "The Odds", "Slippage", "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye", "Mary, Mary" and "Sorry, Right Number": all of these are neither horror nor comedy, but more or less straight drama under the guise of fantasy. *** out of 4.
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