That’s a Roald Dahl story, from Tales Of The Unexpected.
ETA: (Oh, seems that was a later version, and Alfred Hitchcock indeed adapted it first.)
The famous “Lamb to the Slaughter” episode, based on the short story by Roald Dahl.
Aha! I’m answering my own question: Alfred Hitchcock Presents is available on Peacock. I’m on Season 1 Episode 1 as I type. It’s one of the creepiest episodes in the most subtle way. “What is wrong with Vera Miles?” The ending makes me shudder.
I’m glad you found it! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. There are so many good episodes it’s hard to pick the best (and also, TBH, a few clunkers) but IMHO the creepiest is Season 3 episode 24, “The Foghorn”, starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Michael Rennie. Don’t miss that one! It follows the creepy reminiscences of a woman lying in bed who can’t remember where she is or how she got there.
Another one that sticks in my mind, though probably only because I just saw it last night, was Season 7 episode 18, “The Woman Who Wanted to Live”, starring Charles Bronson as an escaped convict on the run, and Lola Albright as his unwitting but increasingly cooperative captive. Many of the stories have great plot twists at the end, and both of the above do it to perfection.
Has anybody watched more than a couple eps of Will Trent? I’ve only seen the first ep and thought the role was just a variation on Monk, but not as entertaining. In fact, I thought Erika Christensen was much more interesting as a character. Does this get any better?
All I’ve seen is the title, and it always make me imagine that it is a Ted Lasso spin-off. (Okay, Ted Lasso doesn’t have a Will Trent, but it has a Trent Crimm and a Roy Kent, which sounds sort of like Trent.)
I have trouble sleeping and sometimes wake up having a low-level anxiety attack. I often will get up, give the cats a little food, and settle down on a recliner and read for a while. Last night at 4am, I turned on the TV and watched a 1955 episode of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” on a network called Plex. It’s the original “show about nothing.” At first, I was concerned whether Ozzie would buy Doc’s sports car, or not, but not only did it put me in a good mood and dispel my anxiety, it put me right to sleep by the time the credits rolled.
Of course, I wouldn’t recommend this to everyone, but I intend to keep it in my arsenal for the future. You can find a lot of goofy stuff on networks like that.
Decades ago I worked a second-shift job. I got into the habit of watching Mr. Ed and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on Nick at Night to help me wind down before bedtime at 3 or 4 am. I know what you mean.
But The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a good show!
I may have to revisit that show. I watched it when it was new and I was a child. I think the target audience was somewhat older.
Latest season of Derry Girls.
Man, it kills.
Cop (Liam Neeson?!): “We have to call an adult caregiver of yours. Who will it be?”
“Not MY Ma!”
“Mine neither.”
“Maybe we should call one of our Das?”
“God no! Das are in the pocket of Mas.”
“That’s right. Das are just Ma enablers.”
Sister Michael owns my whole heart.
You can’t raise seven babbys on black stones!
I keep telling everyone I know to watch Derry Girls, but I haven’t made any converts. Fools! You don’t know what you’re missing!
(Whenever I hear of someone who’s just passed at the age of 95 I sadly intone “Cut down in his prime.”)
It’s fine but yes, it’s another “Odd yet brilliant investigator with weird relationship issues” series. They really hammer home the “care home” thing in a way that I find a little too trivial in a “HERE IS A TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD EVENT FOR PERSONAL BACKSTORY TO MAKE THIS PERSON INTERESTING” way for comfort. Might watch more of it, but I’m not really engaged.
I’ve started watching I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too because frankly with a title like that you need to see whether they put effort into the story they didn’t put into the title. The answer is: not really. Overweight, unattractive, bullied-by-everyone loser finds a secret door in a house his grandfather left him. Door goes to another world where he can “level up” in all sorts of ways, and he immediately becomes insanely handsome, physically a borderline superhero and the romantic target of every attractive woman within 100 miles of him. That’s all in episode 1. In the most recent episode he’s now got magical powers too, because of course he does. There’s also a princess who wants to marry him, because of course she does.
If you aren’t aware, that is a whole genre of fiction that is extremely popular in anime/manga at the moment. The long, bad title is a deliberate part of it.
We gave up on it. If you’re going to try to cram an entire story into an hour, you need better writers. As it is, after losing track of the plot a couple of times, I lost interest.
I was not aware of this, although I am aware there are a lot of them with long, bad titles. I got my daughter a Crunchyroll subscription at her request, but mostly she just watches Demon Slayer on it so having watched the titles I’m familiar with I’m now exploring others.
Blue Lights is a new police drama set in Northern Ireland. Great characters, convincingly interwoven plot. It cleverly sidesteps some tired TV tropes. It is almost as good as Line of Duty and Happy Valley.
(You can find it on BBC iPlayer.)
There is a special place in my heart for PlutoTV, the free no frills cable knockoff that comes with my Roku stick. There are 30 channels playing all the time, most of it old sitcoms from the 50’s to the 90’s. It’s perfect for background sound.
COVID truly did a number on SE3 though with writing, pacing and shooting. It’s a shame, the show is so good it deserved better. I watch the first two seasons over and over, but season 3 is a shame I lament.