Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fog Closing In (1956)
Season 2, Episode 2
6/10
A better episode, but, I believe the format hurts it.
6 May 2021
A better episode this time around as we follow Phyllis Thaxter as a housewife who is left alone for the week while her salesman husband is off for business. From what we can gather she's been babied by her parents and her husband has moved them all the way to the west coast to get her away from them. As a result she's uneasy about everything. The principle of the episode is that she is pretty much on the brink of madness and weather or not she can overcome this, her interactions with a escaped mental patient who's harmless seems to help as he seems more understanding then her husband at times. The ending goes the typical route imagined, but, I feel this story suffers from the 25 minute format as we need to take a long look into this woman to get were she's coming from, they do good with what they can, but, still. Also there's a character mentioned who is suppose to come stay with her as company that never shows up nor is ever mentioned again, she has a casting credit on here, but, her scenes say deleted, which leaves her fate totally unknown.
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