This episode of "Thriller" is unusual in that it features two stories...and the same two actors play the leads in each. The theme seems to be guys who are jerks and the women who get fed up with them.
In the first story, Myron (Howard Morris) plays a mousy husband who has been cheating on his rich wife. But he's not completely a mouse...as he's been plotting to kill his wife. How this all backfires on both Myron and the wife (Rosemary Murphy) is for you to see.
In the second, Murphy plays Ms. Quimby...a librarian who expects to be made head librarian after her years of devoted service. Instead, they hire Dr. Bliss (Morris) and he turns out to be a complete jerk. It's his way or the highway....and he antagonizes his employees and begins firing them in order to bring in his own people who will cowtow to him. When he tells Ms. Quimby she's next to get fired, she is beside herself, as this job is her life.
In addition to the theme 'a woman scorned', a secondary theme seems to be mediocrity....at best. Both installments are rather poor (especially the first) and I frankly expected more from this anthology series. Now understand that the acting was very good....but the writing lacked irony and seemed second-rate and the show was not especially interesting. While I know this will offend some, this could be said of many episodes of "Thriller"...a very uneven series with a few exceptional shows but many more that were time-passers at best.
In the first story, Myron (Howard Morris) plays a mousy husband who has been cheating on his rich wife. But he's not completely a mouse...as he's been plotting to kill his wife. How this all backfires on both Myron and the wife (Rosemary Murphy) is for you to see.
In the second, Murphy plays Ms. Quimby...a librarian who expects to be made head librarian after her years of devoted service. Instead, they hire Dr. Bliss (Morris) and he turns out to be a complete jerk. It's his way or the highway....and he antagonizes his employees and begins firing them in order to bring in his own people who will cowtow to him. When he tells Ms. Quimby she's next to get fired, she is beside herself, as this job is her life.
In addition to the theme 'a woman scorned', a secondary theme seems to be mediocrity....at best. Both installments are rather poor (especially the first) and I frankly expected more from this anthology series. Now understand that the acting was very good....but the writing lacked irony and seemed second-rate and the show was not especially interesting. While I know this will offend some, this could be said of many episodes of "Thriller"...a very uneven series with a few exceptional shows but many more that were time-passers at best.