Episode
The Hunger: Week Woman
Overview
When an illegal immigrant is threatened with deportation and is offered a marriage of convenience by his partner's lesbian friend, he accepts. Soon, though, he finds that her personality changes week-by-week, from housewife to dominatrix...to killer?
Details
- Series
- The Hunger
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1999-10-17
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Week Woman is Episode 6 in Season 2 of The Hunger. It aired on 1999-10-17. The runtime is 26 min.
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