Review of Split Second

Tales from the Crypt: Split Second (1991)
Season 3, Episode 11
6/10
Split Second
28 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Michelle Johnson stars as an accidental waitress in a dive where the sawdust on the floor is last night's furniture. Wise beyond her years, she is as cynical as any young woman can be, but when one of the patrons cuts up rough she finds herself accepting a spontaneous marriage proposal from a most unlikely knight in shining armour. Her instant husband is a wealthy older man who runs his own business, but the magic wears off before the honeymoon she never had.

"What is it about men? When they want you the first time, they don't care what anybody thinks of you, but as soon as they think of you as theirs, they want you to be as pure as the f*****g Madonna".

Terrific line, and no, she did not mean that Madonna, but the original one.

Can you guess what happens next? Of course you can, enter a handsome young stranger who teaches the wanton wife to play chess. Well, you got the first part right. Sadly, the end is, well, did either of them deserve this? The best thing about this mean-spirited episode is the background music which was composed by a bloke named Brian May. Not that one, surely?
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