4 reviews
Silly yet enjoyable episode.
- poolandrews
- May 15, 2009
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Neat episode
- Woodyanders
- Aug 14, 2019
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A enjoyable episode, made by it's crazy twist ending.
Portrait of the Artist has art buyer Roger Darcy being introduced to gallery owner Hubert Pocock. The gallery features some life-sized, three-dimensional sculptures of missing people in tormented positions, hanging on the walls. Darcy discovers that one sculpture is of his missing daughter, Penny. Darcy suspects that Pocock is a serial killer, and attempts to play a psychological mind game with him that will induce Pocock to reveal the truth. But the truth is much worse than Darcy knows.
This is the third and final episode directed by Gerald Cotts (as Jerry Smith), he directed the rather comedic, but, still enjoyable "Parents from Space", but, directed "New York Honey" first, if anybodies read that review you will know I wasn't to fond of the episode, but, praised its rather crazy twist ending, this one feels much like that, but, here the first part, builds up the mystery and actually makes you intrigued before hitting you with a completely out of left field twist which dives into sci fi territory. The best thing however is screen veteran Darren McGavin who is committing to his role head on here. As for effects the episode has some pretty impressive makeup in one scene, but, my only real complaint is that even though I enjoyed the ending and thought it was fun, it gets a little to ambitious for its own good, and its here that the cheap production values that this show is obviously known for start to be seen, it's also pretty evident in the sets as we only get one location a art gallery and while some of the paintings used look good, the building itself looks very cheap. It's probably the only thing keeping this episode from receiving an eight overall.
This is the third and final episode directed by Gerald Cotts (as Jerry Smith), he directed the rather comedic, but, still enjoyable "Parents from Space", but, directed "New York Honey" first, if anybodies read that review you will know I wasn't to fond of the episode, but, praised its rather crazy twist ending, this one feels much like that, but, here the first part, builds up the mystery and actually makes you intrigued before hitting you with a completely out of left field twist which dives into sci fi territory. The best thing however is screen veteran Darren McGavin who is committing to his role head on here. As for effects the episode has some pretty impressive makeup in one scene, but, my only real complaint is that even though I enjoyed the ending and thought it was fun, it gets a little to ambitious for its own good, and its here that the cheap production values that this show is obviously known for start to be seen, it's also pretty evident in the sets as we only get one location a art gallery and while some of the paintings used look good, the building itself looks very cheap. It's probably the only thing keeping this episode from receiving an eight overall.
Poor production values
Never has the low budget of the MONSTERS TV show been as evident as in this episode from 1989. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, which is the second episode of the second season of the show, sees the late, great Darren McGavin (KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER) playing the sinister proprietor of an art gallery who meets up with a couple of visitors who have some questions regarding the strange paintings hanging up in the gallery.
This one has a mildly spooky mystery narrative but it's let down by the poor production values, like most of the MONSTERS episodes I've sat through. McGavin is by far the best thing in it and seems to be having a ball with his villainous turn, but the other cast members are weak and the story as a whole just doesn't make much sense.
This one has a mildly spooky mystery narrative but it's let down by the poor production values, like most of the MONSTERS episodes I've sat through. McGavin is by far the best thing in it and seems to be having a ball with his villainous turn, but the other cast members are weak and the story as a whole just doesn't make much sense.
- Leofwine_draca
- Apr 10, 2015
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