Fear Itself (1.5)

Thursday, July 10th @ 10 PM

NBC
Fear Itself- Season 1, Episode # 5 - "Eater"

Officer Bannerman is assigned to watch after the police station with two other officers during the night. Things go routinely until a person is brought into holding, who is supposedly responsible for over thirty "Silence of the Lambs"-style killings. Now, as things go from odd to frightening, Bannerman must determine just who is who because this Cajun killer may be more than just a mere cannibal.

Manatee: Fear Itself was horrible!

Marmot: It was probably the best example of awful, awful, awful television that I've seen in a while. It was so incredibly bad.

Manatee: It was, wasn't it? The story didn't even make sense

Marmot: I feel cheated out of 45 minutes of my life.

Manatee: I'm still surprised though that the make up was pretty good. The serial killer looked pretty creepy. It's too bad the writers aren't as skilled. I need to delete this DVR recording.

Marmot: I'm going to give it one more episode. Thursday is a zombie/apocalypse. If this one is as bad as the others, then an M&M first - we drop a show. Which is pretty spectacular, seeing as how we're only watching 4 shows a week as it is.

Manatee: I know the pickings are slim, but I can’t stand this show.

Marmot: Let's try to clear this up: All the cops were in the building. The Eater was held in a cell downstairs, and then made some kind of voodoo curse, right? So how did he eat the hearts of the cops?

Manatee: I think he was upstairs, but basically yes. I guess his voodoo curse allowed him to unlock the cell, kill the cops (including the one who went home), and then eat their hearts to become them. How he switched back and forth between cops, I don't know?

Marmot: I think once he ate the heart, it allowed him to change into anyone he wanted to, but this wasn't clear to me: how long after eating the heart could he assume their identity? And, why didn't he change into anyone else he had eaten previously? Were these the first hearts he ate? And if so, why now? And why did he want to eat the girl's heart so badly? Did he want to know what it was like to be a woman?

Manatee: They did say he liked to torture the women longer.

Marmot: That's true. And why did she pass up the numerous weapons around the station, like fire extinguishers and guns just to kill him with rat poison?

Manatee: Set Decorator didn't talk to the writer.

Marmot: I think the writers had no idea what a police station was like on the inside. I think they'd only seen one on TV.

Manatee: Sometimes I think the writers on TV don't know anything except what they see on TV.

Marmot: Did you see who wrote this episode?

Manatee: No who?

Marmot: It was two people, one was Jonathan Schaech.

Manatee: Is he mostly an actor?

Marmot: Yeah. He was in That Thing You Do!, which is one of Marmot's favorite movies.