Well, a man and his wife set out for their cabin one dark night. They have been fighting - for she, Abby, had recently discovered that her husband Cliff had been unfaithful(and pretty stupid it seems as the whole episode was filmed on his camera((By whom?))with his dental assistant Trish. As they go down that dark, deserted, and deadly road, they hit a fallen tree. She ends up being burned all over and covered in bandages except for her haunting eyes and mouth. He wakes up unscathed. The rest of the episode deals with Cliff having such feelings of loss over his wife's condition that he feels he must pull the plug for her benefit as she has no skin - no skin at all. The episode then gets lots of ups and downs, and even some real low points with regard to good taste, and some highlights with both Robin Sydney and even more impressively with Julia Anderson(now Benson). Check out her highlights in that tub scene. That scene has her in all her bare-chested glory, but the director Rob Schmidt also has Ave Maria playing in the background. He uses that music again in the most unorthodox and, for me, disgustingly enjoyable scene in the episode - the flaying. I really thought this episode was done very well. Schmidt obviously has loads of talent. Actor Martin Donovan has enough quirky screen persona and ambiguity to carry off what will by the episode's end be a much more complex role that might be first imagined. The script has some fun with things. Sure there are holes, but this was scary, riveting, and strangely poetic at brief times. And how about Abby's two major contribution as well as Trish's! Corbin Bernsen is here as well as a blood-sucking lawyer given his "burn notice." Wrong show, maybe he was just PSYCHed out.
Review of Right to Die
