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(1995)

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6/10
Fever
Prismark107 July 2020
The Sliders pay a short lived visit in an alternative San Francisco where everyone is rich as there is oil flowing.

They end up in a reality where a plague is rampaging, there are strict government controls, clinical cleanliness is rampant in shops, restaurants and hotels. The Sliders team are falling sick.

Professor Arturo finds that medicine available is basic.

Quinn Mallory of this world is Patient Zero of this deadly disease. Government agents allow the poor to die, the rich get proper healthcare.

It is Professor Arturo who realises that in this world Penicillin was never created. It is a race against time to make a formula to save lives.

Some people have commented on the parallels to the Covid 19 pandemic of 2020. That is just a stroke of luck, there are lots of stories dealing with deadly diseases.

The important part of the story here is the divide between rich and poor which results in the inequalities in healthcare.

I wonder if it is a coincidence that the Quinn Mallory is this world looked and talked like David Koresh!
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10/10
Germaphobe World
NickBOKC13 March 2022
The group lands on a world that is obsessed with cleanliness to avoid germs. There is a plague on this world known as the Q and no cure for it. The wealthy have no worries on this world, and everyone infected is of a lower caste. Quinn's alternate is patient zero, and the group must find him and a cure fast after Wade is infected. Quinn's alternate on this world looks eerily similar to the creepy cult leader David Koresh. The infected even stand in front of him to protect him from government agents.

Once the professor discovers that these people have never heard of aspirin or antibiotics, it's a race against time to create the medicine needed to cure the group and the people of this world. This was an excellent episode to follow the pilot. I have high hopes for this series. There's just something exciting about sliding to a different earth. You never know what you'll find.
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9/10
Great episode, but this is not the second episode of the season
cheatinglongplays29 July 2023
I have been rewatching my dvds of this show, such a great episode, I think this episode has a very good plot, written very well, and all the actors do such a great job, portraying their characters. The 2 best actors that this show has is John Rhys Davis and Jerry O'Connel they were the absolute best that this show could provide, however I do have a gripe on something. Both tv.com, and IMDB here list this episode as the second episode of the season but I know for a fact that this is not the second episode, this was the fourth episode according to my dvd collection the second episode was called Summer of love third episode is Prince Of Wails and the fourth episode was this which is named Fever, that's according to how it was released.
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5/10
A Cure of Convenience
injury-6544719 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Okay then. This feels like a bit of a stinker.

Looks cheap. Something that stood out to me here, more so than the pilot episode, is how cheap some of the sets look. Especially the diner. It looks so much like a bad set and not a real location.

Another underground movement? Again we find an underground society of oppressed people. We literally just saw that in the pilot episode! Be original! People running away from the oppressors with guns blazing? Yeah... we just saw that too. Not a good sign to be repeating ideas already in episode 2.

Alternate Quinn's acting and hairstyle. It's so bad. Some of his line delivery is horrendous and the way he just nonchalantly accepts that they're from another world is extremely corny.

Wade's love is so boring. She's so annoying and I don't care about her crush on Quinn. Their love story arc sucks.

Penicillin created by just casually playing around with some handy mould? Ummm I'm no biologist or anything but on the face of it that just seems so incredibly ridiculous. I can't actually tell if it's meant to be a joke? Or the writers are actually that clueless or careless? It's really hard to know if I'm supposed to be taking this show seriously.

The one thing I did enjoy about the episode was some of the visuals: Wade's hallucinations and the testing Quinn is subjected to.

I also really like how it ended with the humorous line of "did you tell her about the cannibals?" I Wish she would get eaten by cannibals.

All in all a 5 / 10 is probably being too generous, but I have nostalgia and part of me wants to like it more. I hope subsequent episodes have a better story.
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