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This episode is an honorable mention in my book. It's more of a black comidy and a bit of a neo noir in a twisted sense. Like in some noir stories it starts in the present but then we get the back story to fill in how he got to where he was.
Joe Pantoliano is great as Ulric whom is a greedy creep whom has been granted a gift of extended life which he of course desides to profit from for his own gains. I actually think that's a unique idea, in most comic book tropes it's always a person discovering they have a certain ablity and then just using it to fight evil and serve selfless causes; Ulric unfortunately (or fortunate in his perspective) isn't that guy. Though I also like Robert Wuhl whom was a fun and funny as the ringmaster of the circus, he had a lot of fun lines.
I'll admit seeing each of the death scenes is fun but also really painful, even if I had this ability I wouldn't want to go though any of the things he goes though. We see Ulric die the most colorful deaths about as many times as Kenny from "South Park" , the displays of death in the episode sort of remind me of Herchall Gordon Lewis films like "The Wizard of Gore" and "Two Thousand Maniacs" as each of those films consisted of all different ways to die in the most inventive ways. From getting drowned to getting shot with an arrow to the heart, it was a first for once seeing people voluntarily killing someone while remaining legal.
But as we see the more famous and greedy Ulric gets, the closer to death he's coming. The ending I'll admit gave me a chill, though I wouldn't say it was much of a twist, from a detail in the past he failed to remember but his own name, if you remember the play "Hamlet" then you get the irony and saw it coming. Lets just say Ulric's number is up.
Rating: 4 stars
This episode is an honorable mention in my book. It's more of a black comidy and a bit of a neo noir in a twisted sense. Like in some noir stories it starts in the present but then we get the back story to fill in how he got to where he was.
Joe Pantoliano is great as Ulric whom is a greedy creep whom has been granted a gift of extended life which he of course desides to profit from for his own gains. I actually think that's a unique idea, in most comic book tropes it's always a person discovering they have a certain ablity and then just using it to fight evil and serve selfless causes; Ulric unfortunately (or fortunate in his perspective) isn't that guy. Though I also like Robert Wuhl whom was a fun and funny as the ringmaster of the circus, he had a lot of fun lines.
I'll admit seeing each of the death scenes is fun but also really painful, even if I had this ability I wouldn't want to go though any of the things he goes though. We see Ulric die the most colorful deaths about as many times as Kenny from "South Park" , the displays of death in the episode sort of remind me of Herchall Gordon Lewis films like "The Wizard of Gore" and "Two Thousand Maniacs" as each of those films consisted of all different ways to die in the most inventive ways. From getting drowned to getting shot with an arrow to the heart, it was a first for once seeing people voluntarily killing someone while remaining legal.
But as we see the more famous and greedy Ulric gets, the closer to death he's coming. The ending I'll admit gave me a chill, though I wouldn't say it was much of a twist, from a detail in the past he failed to remember but his own name, if you remember the play "Hamlet" then you get the irony and saw it coming. Lets just say Ulric's number is up.
Rating: 4 stars