As with most other reviewers, I was disappointed with this episode because of the limp, head-scratching finale. I didn't detect overtly bad-acting per se, as others did, but accepted the 2 principals at face-value. Always interesting as to how, in scenes where a person's hit by a speeding-car, there's not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere on the pavement. I don't mind that, though, as it's simply too gruesome a thing to contemplate, especially coming into people's homes back in the mid-50's, with pretty-strict network-standards. As usual, I found Robert Harris compelling but obviously-strange. When he kept insisting on helping Dana recover his memory, to the point of harassment, I'm surprised that Dana or his mother didn't call the authorities, which they never did. It seems the police, even back in the 50's, would've had Dana see a professional psychologist, to help restore the guilt-ridden guy's memory. I also find it unfair of characters, in such stories as this, to insist that someone like Dana "snap out of it", "pull himself together", "it's been a full-week now since the accident. You should be getting-over your depression & guilt", and such as that. Noone in real-life can bounce-back that quickly when dealing with a traumatic-experience. Harris' character, Hurley, the aggressive "memory-helper", is never investigated. Dana & his mom just accept his vague, non-explanations. At the very least, I thought perhaps Hurley was just trying to "force" Dana into recalling the hit & run driver's license-plate no., possibly, in fact, he, Hurley, WAS a psychologist, maybe one even provided by the police---the point being that, if Dana knew or suspected this, he might really have frozen-up & refused to remember. Since Hurley's techniques worked in the long-run, it seems the police should've been jumping-for-joy, not simply dismissing the odd-man as a well-known kook. Overall, I found this episode compelling until the last 30-seconds or so. Amazingly, the more I watched Robert Harris, the more I realized how much he resembled the famous 19th-century French-author Gustave Flaubert, who wrote "Madame Bovary". Do a comparison. As I said, amazing!
Review of The Hidden Thing
