Tne Hulk makes for interesting viewing for a number f reasons:
-Special effects that are never quite convincing no matter how much money seems to have been spent.
-And the aura of being transported back to middle America circa 1980.
In this case, David manages to end up on the run with three female felons, one of whom is nine months pregnant. I have to question the plausibility of their initial prison break, although perhaps it was more believable in 1981 than now, as well as the larger-than-life role the caricature prison authorities play, but at least Kathleen Nolan has the right mannerisms for an unstable warden with a chip on her shoulder, and there are some interesting characters here. The convicts' ringleader (Charney) seems to have some psychopathic tendencies, and there is dialogue heavily implying that she may have killed her husband or some man in her life. The younger pregnant woman has a surprise twin birth, apparently just to add another twist, although I suppose it could be a reminder about the coexistence of men and women, since there's one twin of each sex and the episode seemed to have been intentionally focused on women up to that point, It's suggested that this girl is more virtuous because she was only a get-away driver when she got caught up in something her boyfriend was doing. Make what you will of that.
It's not clear what the third woman did to get on jail. She's the least well-defined and seems too timid to do much of anything, although she could have snapped one day after years of being walked all over. At one point she says she isn't very good at birthing babies. It seems like this might be meant to give a clue about her past, but I can't work anything out. It seems like a dumb thing to say just for the heck of it. I mean, is anyone without medical training good at overseeing childbirth?
Overall, an episode with potentially interesting characters , and of course the great Bixby, but highly improbable and fraught with cliché character interactions and relationships and mixed acting.
- Lovely bu obvious stock footage that classic TV buffs enjoy looking for (in this case, of rock slides triggered by explosions).
-Special effects that are never quite convincing no matter how much money seems to have been spent.
- The vacillating quality of acting and writing;
-And the aura of being transported back to middle America circa 1980.
In this case, David manages to end up on the run with three female felons, one of whom is nine months pregnant. I have to question the plausibility of their initial prison break, although perhaps it was more believable in 1981 than now, as well as the larger-than-life role the caricature prison authorities play, but at least Kathleen Nolan has the right mannerisms for an unstable warden with a chip on her shoulder, and there are some interesting characters here. The convicts' ringleader (Charney) seems to have some psychopathic tendencies, and there is dialogue heavily implying that she may have killed her husband or some man in her life. The younger pregnant woman has a surprise twin birth, apparently just to add another twist, although I suppose it could be a reminder about the coexistence of men and women, since there's one twin of each sex and the episode seemed to have been intentionally focused on women up to that point, It's suggested that this girl is more virtuous because she was only a get-away driver when she got caught up in something her boyfriend was doing. Make what you will of that.
It's not clear what the third woman did to get on jail. She's the least well-defined and seems too timid to do much of anything, although she could have snapped one day after years of being walked all over. At one point she says she isn't very good at birthing babies. It seems like this might be meant to give a clue about her past, but I can't work anything out. It seems like a dumb thing to say just for the heck of it. I mean, is anyone without medical training good at overseeing childbirth?
Overall, an episode with potentially interesting characters , and of course the great Bixby, but highly improbable and fraught with cliché character interactions and relationships and mixed acting.
