July 5, 2023-number 109

Spoilers

“Jess-Belle”

Witches arrive in the Twilight Zone.

This one was my least favorite episode of season four so far. This is the first episode in season four that was hampered by the longer time of the episode.

The story bounced back and forth with Jess-Belle. At one point, she felt antagonistic. Another point she felt like our protagonist. Were we supposed to be cheering for her? Was she a villain in the episode? I believe she was both depending on what the show needed to happen, which is pretty poor writing.

Then, I nearly laughed when we see Jess-Belle turn into a leopard as a curse for her love potion she ‘bought’ from Witchy-poo. That was so ridiculous and, once that happened, I was fully off the train for this episode.

To be fair, I thought James Best (aka Roscoe P. Coltrane) did a pretty decent job as the love-blinded man. The acting of the episode was solid over all.

Another thing that I hated of this episode was the song that was used when the show came back from commercial breaks. It felt like it was a minstrel folk song that, once again, I found laughable.

This was a very disappointing episodes for me.