6 reviews
Billy Drago as a good guy? Well, almost...
COCOON is one of the more interesting episodes of MONSTERS although that's mainly down to the air of mystery and ambiguity surrounding the central plotting. Certainly it has more going for it than all the nonsense comedy and one-note episodes of the show. The storyline involves a woman laid up with amnesia who asks a detective to discover her past. By coincidence, the detective's girlfriend is a psychic who soon uncovers some very bizarre historical mysteries associated with the woman...
The best thing about COCOON is the cast, which is actually decent for a MONSTERS episode. Headlining it is the great Billy Drago, surprisingly not cast as a villain here! Well, it does turn out that he's morally ambiguous, but at least he's not the out-and-out bad guy that he usually plays. Still, most of the running time involves a battle of wits between the two female characters, and the actresses are effective. I also liked the moments of subtlety here and there which you don't expect from the show.
The best thing about COCOON is the cast, which is actually decent for a MONSTERS episode. Headlining it is the great Billy Drago, surprisingly not cast as a villain here! Well, it does turn out that he's morally ambiguous, but at least he's not the out-and-out bad guy that he usually plays. Still, most of the running time involves a battle of wits between the two female characters, and the actresses are effective. I also liked the moments of subtlety here and there which you don't expect from the show.
- Leofwine_draca
- Apr 3, 2015
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Psychic at work and play
This episode "Cocoon" from season one of "Monsters" was one interesting and entertaining one. As the story involves a woman who's involved in an accident and a cop needs info on her so he asks his psychic girlfriend to help out! Along the way you see images from the past in other times, you ask yourself is this lady a ghost or has she lived another life! Only romance and passion, lust come into play with the trio yet the psychic figures things out. Overall entertaining, interesting, drama like early episode of the series that had that ghost like and reincarnation feel!
"Who do you think you are?"
- lost-in-limbo
- Aug 29, 2010
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Below average episode of Monsters.
- poolandrews
- May 10, 2009
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Highly enjoyable story driven episode.
Cocoon has a woman Madeline carrying $5,000 in cash and a cache of diamonds, is in a terrible automobile accident but seems to suffer no serious injuries except for amnesia. A police detective, Richard is called in. He asks his psychic girlfriend, Sarah McPherson, to investigate. Sarah gets impressions of a cocoon, the faces of many different men, and vast time. Richard is attracted to Madeline, and they have sexual intercourse in the hospital. When an angry Sarah discovers Madeline's secret, she uses it to destroy both her rival and her straying lover.
Directed by John Gray who seems to be most notable for creating the Jennifer Love Hewitt series "Ghost Whisperer". Cocoon is a really interesting episode, because even though it doesn't really feature a creature type monster, which in most cases is what saves these episodes. This one however is an example of one where the story really makes it enjoyable. For starters the episode is very darkly lite looking very noirish, especially the scenes in the hospital room, speaking of which we even get a short PG-13 style sex scene in this one, which is really kinda outta place for this series. Our guest star here is Billy Drago actually playing a somewhat good guy. He does a pretty good job as does Kim Johnston Ulrich who is also really attractive, in one interesting note of trivia Drago's psychic girlfriend is played by his real life wife Silvana Gallardo who he was married to until her death from cancer in 2012. As for the final, I still found it really enjoyable, even though many might find it predictable as the story progresses. Our locations here this time around are a dimly lit hospital room and what appears to be the living room of a house, both serve the story good, all in all a really enjoyable episode for its atmosphere and interesting story telling, I've noticed the best episodes of this show seem to be the ones were talented directors seem to get the most out of there 20 minute run time. Highly enjoyable.
Directed by John Gray who seems to be most notable for creating the Jennifer Love Hewitt series "Ghost Whisperer". Cocoon is a really interesting episode, because even though it doesn't really feature a creature type monster, which in most cases is what saves these episodes. This one however is an example of one where the story really makes it enjoyable. For starters the episode is very darkly lite looking very noirish, especially the scenes in the hospital room, speaking of which we even get a short PG-13 style sex scene in this one, which is really kinda outta place for this series. Our guest star here is Billy Drago actually playing a somewhat good guy. He does a pretty good job as does Kim Johnston Ulrich who is also really attractive, in one interesting note of trivia Drago's psychic girlfriend is played by his real life wife Silvana Gallardo who he was married to until her death from cancer in 2012. As for the final, I still found it really enjoyable, even though many might find it predictable as the story progresses. Our locations here this time around are a dimly lit hospital room and what appears to be the living room of a house, both serve the story good, all in all a really enjoyable episode for its atmosphere and interesting story telling, I've noticed the best episodes of this show seem to be the ones were talented directors seem to get the most out of there 20 minute run time. Highly enjoyable.
Nifty episode
- Woodyanders
- Jul 24, 2019
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