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This is a great story about a thief/murderer/con artist that tries to use an unsuspecting, aloof, funny old woman by charming her, befriending her, and even flirting with her so that he can hide his loot that he just killed a guard over, which is $100,000.

He hides the bills in a couple of Emmy's hoarding of magazines, and then persuades her to leave him "just a TOKEN of their friendship" to him, in her will. Assuring her that he doesn't want any of her valuables.

After he has her sign her will, he then tries to set up various ways for her to die by "accident".

The con man, Gerald, even brings in his shallow girlfriend to assist in the murder, which Emmy makes it clear she is jealous and does not like Geralds girlfriend, that he claims is his "cousin".

The girlfriend attempts to help Gerald in turning up the gas on Emmys stove and then leaving to allow the gas to take Emmys life.

But again, the attempt is a fail when Emmy calls the gas company to check her stove, as well as the junk collector that picks up all of her magazines. The gas man calls the cops, after realizing it wasn't an accident.

So, by the time Gerald and his girlfriend return to Emmys home, expecting her death, they are greeted by police instead.

The girlfriend quickly outs Gerald to the police, and Gerald sees the magazines are gone - meaning his money is gone, and he looses his temper and exposes his crimes in front of police.

After the police arrest the two criminals, Emmy goes to her freezer and pulls out the magazines that held the thousands of dollars, and starts counting when we end the story.

Emmy is so colorful, funny, lovable, and animated that she is worth watching this episode, based on her alone.

However, the story is a good reason to watch too.

As usual, Hitchcock has multiple twists and turns through the story, that keep you glued from start to finish.

Okay, there really are no spoilers to be given. It's all in the synopsis.

A serial killer, in Australia, records his every movement from the time he steals a video camera to the time we wrap up the ending.

I had my hopes high for this - because honestly, it's actually SUPER difficult to pull off filming a found film movie - that sells and makes viewers believe, or at least QUESTION whether or not it's real. It's cheaper! But that makes it much harder. You can't depend on editing or post production to make anything appear like it was filmed by some sick a-hole. You have to film it AS IF YOU ARE that sick a-hole. It's harder than it seems.

For THAT, I give the director kudos. It DID feel as if the camera was being handled by a complete dolt that didn't know the first thing about filming anything.

But a couple of bumps, while doing so.

What DRUG DEALER would be caught DEAD doing a deal on camera, no matter WHO IT IS? That dealer would have made him turn the camera off before ever saying a single hello to him. 100%. Dealers aren't idiots. They aren't going to trust ANYONE recording them during a deal. Flat out. No way. Bad miss. 👎 You skip that scene entirely... have him show up, dealer says, we aren't talking until that camera is off. Or he makes him leave the camera in the hallway or SOMETHING. He isn't going to just go get his stash and money and do a deal right on film. Come on. Don't insult your audience.

The killings... well, wow. I mean he got good actors...I was ready to puke after the first one, but that may have been the jittery filming.

I think they were almost TOO detailed? If a killer is in the middle of his first kill, isn't he going to sorta forget about the filming at some point? I'm not a killer, so I can't say for sure...but I would think there would be a TINY bit of missed content, by accident, during stabbings. I can't hold a camera and prepare a meal with my other hand, easily. Especially if I'm brand new to both. I can't hold a camera and film myself knitting.

Maybe the director should have had him steal a go pro if he was going to have him film stabbings. I mean he's holding a camera, holding a knife with the other hand...and she can't escape? There are no hands left to hold her down? We are supposed to suspend reality of what the human extremities can do all at once. Fine. We can let that slide... but then...

There is literally NO explanation to why the last 2 died. None. The film makes it seem like he was killing girls he stalked for a long time. Maps of their routes, photos of them, several...and he had obsession as his motive.

But then he just randomly starts killing a girl he just met, and his dealer, and tries to slowly kill his crush? Why??? Pick a mental illness.

Most psychos who are obsessed mentally, will never go off those rails. They are extremely picky, perfectionists, tidy, neat, organized, and seem incredibly put together around those that know them.

I've seen a lot of true crime. Lol

I have yet to see an obsessive compulsive serial stalker/killer just go off start murdering people by random. They are two major different types of mental serial killers - those that kill specific people they obsess with...or random serial killers that do it for the rush...school shooters, bombers, etc...

Jeffrey Dahmer had a type. (Gay minorities)

GACEY had a type. (Mostly young males)

Ted Bundy had a type. (College age girls with long hair)

They didn't just go all random killing people for the hell of it after killing who they obsessed with. The last two kills DID NOT FIT his mental disorder. It was just shock gore.

I think the plus sides were the editing in the beginning and ending to look like it was evidence material was INCREDIBLE. WELL DONE.

It completely disturbed me, at first, as he was acting like your typical obsessive compulsive serial stalker/killer. I mean I was frightened for a while.

When it got unreal - was taking him off that pattern. Just going for gore, instead of the story by the end - was the ONLY reason this movie didn't get better ratings. I guarantee if the director would have stayed on track, have the dealer and crush and friend absolutely SHOCKED to learn who their friend was...instead of how it ended...it would have been better.

He had a 3rd victim already in the works. The blond he began stalking...why didn't he stick to that, all the sudden he's a completely different type of serial killer?

Try again. Really. There is so much promise but the execution (especially the ending) was a failure. Stay focused on your story you are telling and don't derail. It will do a lot better. I promise.

The old ladies are so lovable, it impossible to not smile when they are on screen flirting with the detective. This isn't an episode where you will wonder "who dunnit?" It's extremely obvious. But where it lacks in suspense, it makes up for, in humor. The ending punchline was somewhat predictable - yet it didn't steal anything from the entertainment value. Sit back, enjoy, and get a kick out of these old ladies desperate to just be close to the handsome detective by any means necessary. And I mean ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Very cute. If you need a smile, watch this one.

I didn't know this was a new series when I saw the "new" and I didn't catch the title difference. I honestly thought it was going to be an early release of AHS season 10. Lol 😆🤣 Because I'm a dreamer.

But the only complaint I had about episode one, is the very beginning, I knew exactly where we were heading. So hiding the house in the opening scene was futile and just a touch annoying. We ALL knew where we were.

The Murder House.

That being said, I enjoyed the first 2-part episode. It was creepy like AHS and oddly nostalgic of season 1 of AHS. Oddly, because it's not that old of a series but there is still some nostalgic mood floating around in this episode.

I absolutely LOVE THIS IDEA of having a new story every episode. Love it!!! So much!

So don't be surprised if my rating changes to 10 by the end of this season.

Huge anthology junkie. I can't get enough Anthologies. So if you are the same, then this show will be enjoyable.

I think quarantine melted people's brains who call this a dull episode. 😑 Or they have always been crazy 😜.

The amount of creativity that went into this episode, alone, would have held our focus for a full length feature film.

Everything from The creeper playing a video game in black and white, to the focus of our star heading into his favorite movie, which looks and sounds EXACTLY like a 1972 cult classic horror film.

His reactions with the characters were hilarious, not to mention the amount of work it took to make a REAL movie interact with a current actor, well...it was just magical.

By the end, my husband and I decided we have to check out "Horror Express" which this episode nods a huge tribute to. We found it is available on Amazon Prime and another streaming service and we will watch it Sunday. 😀 Absolutely brilliant, and huge kudos to the director of this episode, for pulling us all into the 1972 cult classic. 👏 So authentically.

We got an added kick at the ending when the creeper is playing the game again but in color, like he traveled through time...gorgeous concept, btw...and the ending being so surprising and comical.

Loved loved loved this episode. I love this entire series. You guys are doing PHENOMENAL 👏🙌❤👌💕💓 PLEASE CONTINUE....

So yeah, I'm biased. But even if I wasn't. Even if I hadn't grown up with Punky Brewster as my childhood hero and even if I wasn't a fan club member who bought bootleg vhs before it was released on DVD and then bought all the DVD sets, and adopted a beagle and named her Punky Brewster. Even if none of that was in the equation - I would still love this reboot. I'm anti-reboot for most series but as soon as I heard this would be coming to peacock, I was stoked. Completely stoked. I marked my calendar and after I had come home from oral surgery, my husband said that Punky Brewster had been released a tad early so I knew what I was doing on my mend. I watched the entire season. I couldn't stop. It was nostalgia, endearing, feel-good, funny, dramatic, it had everything we would want from Punky Brewster, including mismatched shoes and a golden retriever named Brandy. The little girl "Izzy" is super cute and adorable and we really care about every single character. The old Punky Brewster show had a way of making us kids feel like we were a part of the cool kids crowd, where Punky, Cherrie, Margo, Alan, and Brandon were our crew too. And this new Punky Brewster feels exactly the same way. Like we are a part of the family tree house. ;) And we finally get some sort of closure on Susan Brewster. I already can't wait for season 2. And Punky Brewster - don't you ever change. Still my hero so many years later. ❤ Izzy could not have had a more perfect match for a family. Henry would be proud. Punky Power!!

I am a fan of the original "The Shining" so much that we spent our honeymoon at The Stanley Hotel - where Stephen King was inspired to write "The Shining". Only an hour and 45 minutes away from our home, but truly felt like a trip into another time, in another world. We had a blast, but I digress. The choice the casting directors did in making Ewan McGregor the adult Danny, was perfect. And if I'm honest, as much of a diehard fan I am of Ewan McGregor, this was not a role that I felt he would "Shine" in. I was super happy to be wrong. He was PERFECT. Acting was not either over the top unbelievably dramatic, yet not dull and under-enthused. He played the role absolutely perfectly balanced and realistic - about a man who has spent his entire life trying to dull his shine and the consequences it brings. Nothing ever truly shocked him to the bone, which would be expected for a man who has dealt with shocking encounters since he was a child ... yet also did not act feelingless towards new encounters. The little girl (forgive me as I do not know her yet, seeing this as the only movie I've seen her in) was AMAZING. Lovable and empathetic and powerful and determined. I could absolutely see this turning into more sequels. I'm not a purist - but I do like stories to stay true to the original and this one did. The AA speech about his father was dead on, to connect perfectly to the timeline of the original, as we can remember that "Jack" was "on the wagon" when they first entered that damned hotel. Little details like these MATTER when entering into the sequels world. If they continued to use the same care and attention to detail that they did with Doctor Sleep, they could theoretically create more sequels and spinoff from this point on. Perhaps featuring new characters and even continuing on where the young girl left off. I really enjoyed this movie. And 2 and a half hours went by super quickly, because it was never dull. And constantly moving at a steady pace, never turning into a dull moment - for even a minute. Well done! I'm very very pleased with this movie that I honestly was very skeptical of, when I first learned it was released.

You can't hate anything that Chris O'Dowd is in. He is incredibly underrated. The man should already have awards pouring out of his home right now. He is brilliant. And should be more sought after in Hollywood but Hollywood likes to stick to their cookie cutters. This was a crazy episode and not sure which classic TZ it is supposed to be honoring but it did have a feel of TZ to it with maybe a touch of Darkside storyline as well. Although I highly criticize the new series for going WAY too WAY too political on EACH AND EVERY EPISODE - I mean come on, take a break once in a while and just bring us some freaking entertainment... I did enjoy a few of the episodes that I could ignore the "Let's feed the sheep their koolaid" moments... not everyone is a moron. We see it. And we don't care for it. Those of us with half a brain. But this was one of the few episodes that certainly kept it to a minimal. Too bad more of the reboot series didn't stick to the sci-fi mystery and wonder like the 80s reboot and the 2002 reboot. I think if you did, this would have gone MUCH MUCH better for your ratings and income. THANK YOU FOR Chris O'Dowd though. Literally the one reason I didn't cancel my subscription was to wait for THIS episode for HIM. Thank you. Hoping if there is a season two, you stop treating it like a political platform and start treating it like a story that takes us to a completely different dimension - the way they always have.

"The original is better." "The original is better" Try an original review for once. As a fan that watched the series live, as a kid ... it's just as amazing as when I was 10 years old watching on nbc. The first episode was captivating. Original. And well videographed- which I'd expect nothing less from Steven Spielberg. The ending was surprising. It left us with mixed emotions which is not unlike the original stories. We really enjoyed this and want more so by all means, millenials and younger, stick to your Spongebob shows and leave this one to your moms and dads and grandparents. We have taste. We actually enjoy original storylines with well acted roles and beautiful cinematography. Which is what you will get with these "Amazing Stories" Well done! Give us MORE! Ignore the whiners. :) The true fans are loving it.

This series was a flux capacitor for our souls. It took me back to when I was 8, and saw the movie in the theater with my parents and I sat there with my jaw dropped. Amazed. Charmed. Mesmerized. This series have me jaw-drop, as well, but even more so as the characters are endless. The locations are endless. The TALENT is endless. I cried for the gelflings. I laughed with the sketksis. I awed over Mother Augra. We started it on Friday, and finished on the very next Sunday. We watched them all within 48 hours. That's less time than it takes Google to correct an error they made on your account. If they had done this in any other format, besides puppetry, it would have been awful. Thank goodness Jim Hensons daughter kept his love of puppets, alive, within this prequel series. My husband loved it too. We were invested the entire season through. Yelling at the TV, crying with the tragic scenes, laughing at the drunk sketksis. We were not watching the story unfold. We were a part of the story. We forgot they were puppets - at times. The amount of talent that goes into Jim Hensons creature shop puppetry, is beyond brilliant. Its ... well I will boldly and confidentially say it... IT IS LEGENDARY. If legends never die, this will never die. It will be enjoyed for years to come, just as all of Jim Hensons legacies will be. Please please, Netflix, bring us a second season. This was too good to stop here. We loved it. Bravo to the Henson family. You really loved your Dad and it shows in all of the hard work that was put into this series. Come back to us and bring us more. I just KNOW Jim Henson absolutely is overwhelmed with pride, from heaven, looking down at this masterpiece, and saying...in his Jim Henson way... "Well done, kids."

This movie was aired in 1996, when I was 21 years old and I still remembered it to look it up this past week (I'm 44 now so that's quite a few "24 hours" ago), because it had a great story and pace. I did a Google search and found it on YouTube and re-watched it and it still held the test of time. The characters are believable. The story is gripping. It was made in the time when TV ruled the world so made for TV films were actually "not bad". (See: Stephen Kings "IT", still holds the test of time) This movie costars Charlotte Ross (which was important to me in the 90s as she played a favorite character of mine on Days Of Our Lives", in the 80s and early 90s) and it also stars the late Jonathon Brandis, who many may not know - was Bastian in "The Neverending Story II". It stars Tatyana Ali, who plays a young woman (Sharon) who has not played the victim in her life struggles, but turns her energy to her music, and shes extremely talented - with plans to attend Julliard. She makes friends with Jerry and his sister Ann and their friends who quickly become intoxicating to Sharon - as they live very different lifestyles (wealthy, glamorous, and dangerous) and Sharon feels drawn to them, almost like a star struck Hollywood fan over Movie stars. But like movie stars, glamour and danger always comes with a price or punishment, for being included in the parties. And like Movie stars, Ann feels very jealous of the spotlight being on Sharon - instead of solely herself. This is evident within the first scene of them together at a party. Ann is also extremely overprotective of her brother, Jerry. Jerry has feelings for Sharon. Hes very upfront about it and Sharon likes Jerry as a friend. When Jerry ends up dead after a drunk talk with Chad, a friend of theirs, Chad mentions that Jerry was very depressed and drunk over Sharon not returning his romantic feelings, suggesting that Jerry may have ended his life intentionally over Sharon. This infuriates Ann. As it might, any sister of a brother who just passed away with questionable cause. And thus instills the raging vengeance that Ann seeks on Sharon. Without spoiling the mystery, from this point on... things become very intense and unfair for Sharon. A truly gutted wrenching mystery soaked drama of incorrect placement of blame, incorrect accusations, and unfair deaths. Conspiracy soaked, Frustration infused, jealousy fueled suspense that is sure to keep you guessing until the last scene.

Trying to re-create one of the masterpieces of the OG TZ episode "Nightmare At 30,000 Feet" is no easy task. As a DIEHARD fan of the series, both old, new, and all inbetween... I was slightly concerned about being disappointed as this has been an episode remade in the 80s TV series, the 80s movie, and was avoided in the early 2000s launch, but I have not yet been disappointed in this story, no matter how it is remade for whichever era. This one legitimately bone chilled me. Updated to today's technology - it was clever to bring an mp3 player into the plane instead of a wing monster. It was clever to also show cameras on the flight room so we could feel the panic the passengers felt when things go awry. The narrator on the player sounded like Christian Slater but there is no cast list (not for the mp3 voiceover) to say if that is the case. Seeing Jordan Peele on the screen of the plane, added to the twilight zone eerie factor and the twist at the end (although disappointing for our hero) was also a clever twist. I love how this played out to be updated with today's possibilities. And adding that audio book feature was just plane/plain fun. ;) This gets all stars from me. Most people that enjoy entertainment outside of pewdiepie and poppy, will love this. If you enjoy pewdiepie and poppy - you probably have no taste and shouldn't review this series at all. You should stick to your strengths like tide pods and fidget spinners. Props to all the cast and crew of this episode - it was very enjoyable to watch for those with an IQ.

My husband and I know we have a somewhat twisted and dark sense of humor appreciation. Those of us who have really lived life and been to the bottom and the top and inbetween find humor in the ridiculous. So yes, we definitely find this humorous. Questionable jokes for the inherently oversensitive politically correct profiles that may "try this show a couple of times" - because if you are easily offended by jokes that have nothing to do with you, you may find this show unpleasing or unsettling. For the rest of us that can laugh at the ridiculous story lines and satire of current events through the eyes of animals, it is a blast to watch. A couple of episodes were a tiny bit blah compared to the others, but the majority of them are entertaining, silly, goofy, and frighteningly may remind you of humans you may know. Instead of getting angry and trolling online behind your computer screen about the annoying people you saw today, sit back and laugh with the rest of us as animals portray the silly behavior that humans behave in, and laugh your frustrations away. I love the dogs the most, and the squirrels but we also refer to golf as "white man's white ball" now, thanks to the pigeons. ;) It's not an egg! It's white man's white ball. Hilarious. Enjoy! Or don't. It's really up to you. Same as life. Enjoy it or not, it's up to you.