First off, I really wish the reviews containing incorrect info could be screened and either corrected or not published here at all since they can be so misleading. In this case, wrong info was given by two different reviewers here:
Anyway, as another reviewer here said, it's easy to forget you're watching a Hitchcock episode and begin thinking it's a Twilight Zone ep. But there was always that strong line that divided the two and even though it may have been almost crossed a few times, it never actually was: the Hitchcock TV series never ever had any elements of the supernatural or sci-fi in them, in any way, shape, or form.
It was a nice surprise to see so many of the well-known 60s TV actors in this one ep, since most of the Hitch TV shows only ever had one or two famous names in them. It was especially interesting to see George Lindsey play the same type of childish, backward character as he did in the Andy Griffith Show, but here it wasn't the least bit comical like his Goober character. His brief performance in The Jar was pure pathos.
To me, the contents of the mysterious jar looked like a dead deformed raccoon, and I was afraid the ep would end without letting the audience know what it actually was. Thankfully it didn't and even though the contents weren't surprising at all, it was not disappointingly anti-climactic.
Very well done, all around.
8 out of 10 - grade B
- The first: Thedy (Collin Wilcox) was not Charlie's daughter...she was his wife. (Eww that would've made the "kittycat purring" scene so slimy and distasteful and definitely not allowed on television if she was his daughter!)
- The second: Jahdoo didn't reveal the actual contents of the jar, as another reviewer incorrectly said here. His long diatribe about the contents as Charlie was sucked into the quicksand was only his own speculation as to what it might be, but as we found out at the end when Thedy revealed the contents both verbally and physically, he was dead wrong.
Anyway, as another reviewer here said, it's easy to forget you're watching a Hitchcock episode and begin thinking it's a Twilight Zone ep. But there was always that strong line that divided the two and even though it may have been almost crossed a few times, it never actually was: the Hitchcock TV series never ever had any elements of the supernatural or sci-fi in them, in any way, shape, or form.
It was a nice surprise to see so many of the well-known 60s TV actors in this one ep, since most of the Hitch TV shows only ever had one or two famous names in them. It was especially interesting to see George Lindsey play the same type of childish, backward character as he did in the Andy Griffith Show, but here it wasn't the least bit comical like his Goober character. His brief performance in The Jar was pure pathos.
To me, the contents of the mysterious jar looked like a dead deformed raccoon, and I was afraid the ep would end without letting the audience know what it actually was. Thankfully it didn't and even though the contents weren't surprising at all, it was not disappointingly anti-climactic.
Very well done, all around.
8 out of 10 - grade B