Tập
Tales from the Darkside: Episode 16
Tóm tắt
Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn't seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn't what she was led to believe.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- Tales from the Darkside
- Mùa
- Mùa 4
- Tập
- Tập 16
- Ngày phát sóng
- 1988-05-22
- Thời lượng
- 22 min
Thông tin tập
Episode 16 là tập 16 trong Season 4 của Tales from the Darkside. Tập này phát sóng ngày 1988-05-22. Thời lượng là 22 min.
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Tập 17
An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer's vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of ano
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