Jamie Lee Curtis plays a young up and coming golfer who's life is in danger when someone takes pot shots at her on a golf course. This is more or less a remake of Season 2's tennis episode, "Game, Set, Death". In both episodes a sniper targets a female athlete on her field of play at a tournament and no one seems to notice. No effort to hire extra security, no thought given to cancelling the event until the killer is found. The show must go on, amiright?
Curtis plays Linda Frye, who just happens to know Kris from her college days, and we know from 'Game, Set, Death" that Kris played tennis in college so maybe they met in the sports dorm. Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) has a guest turn as an obsessed fan of Linda's who likes to hide in hotel linen closets. Gary Bisig plays Linda's svengali-like manager who may have a gambling problem and who makes a hard and very pushy play for Kelly. Casey Kasem plays the TV announcer who also happens to be dating the veteran golfer (EJ Peaker as Donna Dawson) who sees Curtis's character as a threat to her tournament supremacy.
There's a scene midway through that defies belief, and it involves a wrestling match between an alligator and Kris Munroe. Yes, I'm not making that up. And Kris came out on top so there's that. She couldn't best Beulah Balbricker in the previous episode but she beat an alligator!
At any rate, Jamie Lee Curtis flashes some star quality, if coming up a bit short on the acting chops. Ray Wise does his villainy turn the way you'd expect, something about those creepy eyes of his.
At the end, there's actually a nice scene between EJ Peaker's veteran golfer and Jamie's character that was unexpected, a 'well done kiddo' moment promoting sportsmanship. This one was fun but profoundly dumb, which is just how I like my Angels.
Curtis plays Linda Frye, who just happens to know Kris from her college days, and we know from 'Game, Set, Death" that Kris played tennis in college so maybe they met in the sports dorm. Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) has a guest turn as an obsessed fan of Linda's who likes to hide in hotel linen closets. Gary Bisig plays Linda's svengali-like manager who may have a gambling problem and who makes a hard and very pushy play for Kelly. Casey Kasem plays the TV announcer who also happens to be dating the veteran golfer (EJ Peaker as Donna Dawson) who sees Curtis's character as a threat to her tournament supremacy.
There's a scene midway through that defies belief, and it involves a wrestling match between an alligator and Kris Munroe. Yes, I'm not making that up. And Kris came out on top so there's that. She couldn't best Beulah Balbricker in the previous episode but she beat an alligator!
At any rate, Jamie Lee Curtis flashes some star quality, if coming up a bit short on the acting chops. Ray Wise does his villainy turn the way you'd expect, something about those creepy eyes of his.
At the end, there's actually a nice scene between EJ Peaker's veteran golfer and Jamie's character that was unexpected, a 'well done kiddo' moment promoting sportsmanship. This one was fun but profoundly dumb, which is just how I like my Angels.
