This episode is similar in theme and body horror to the now infamous Twin Peaks episode from season 3 that got everyone talking back in 2017. The one where the girl ate an alien bug. Anyway, if you're wondering, the creature was an alien as the captions will prove, but it represented something thats likely in everyone already: passion. He repressed it since youth and it grew inside him as a hideous thing. When he used it in old age at the beginning of the episode, he woke it up, and it wanted to be used so badly it even expressed itself while he slept. He refused to nurture it tho and now it's causing him pain, just as his wife has felt pain mentally for years having not felt passion and love from her husband for so long. This creature, this desire, is killed, and so I guess he dies with it, as without passion we are dead inside? This is where it lost me hence only 6 stars but I do feel I "understood" the intent here.
Review of Malcolm
