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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Morning of the Bride (1959)
Helen should have watched a few more movies
This episode had me seriously creeped out all the next day. You know from the beginning that something's going on with Philip's mom, but I wasn't expecting what happened in the end. "Psycho," indeed. The only thing that doesn't seem right to me is that Helen had been dating Philip for almost five years, and yet she had no idea that he had a serious screw loose? Granted, he played it all very well, but with such a twisted mind, you'd think something would shown through! Nevertheless, very well done episode, with very good performances.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hidden Thing (1956)
Confusing letdown
SPOILERS
As others have commented already, there is no payoff to this episode. I found it intriguing most of the way through, and I always enjoy watching Robert H. Harris, but the plot drops off a cliff at the end.
To begin with, I don't believe that a young man seeing his fiancee cut down by a car and lying in the road would have the presence of mind to look at the license plate or even the type of car. He was in a state of trauma. I don't believe that could be "retrieved" from his memory if he never saw it. But that isn't the biggest flaw in this episode. I was perfectly willing to suspend disbelief on that point. The problem is I was waiting for the big revelation to come when Dana finally does remember the plate number, as unrealistic as that might be. But it never happened. *SPOILER* When the cops come in at the end and Dana explains how the other man helped him remember, they scoff and say that he's a fraud, they know all about him, he never had a son who was killed, etc.--"He's a nut." And that's it. Plop. So what was the show all about? Dana never protests that his techniques worked and brought his memory back. No one suddenly recognizes the plate number and realizes who the driver was. We don't get a denouement that the police caught the driver. Other reviewers suggested possible "alternate" endings, so here's my suggestion: Hurley was actually the hit-and-run driver. He was torn with guilt but couldn't bring himself to confess. So he egged on Dana until he remembered the license plate, which was Hurley's own. That would have been in ironic twist worthy of Hitchcock. It feels like the ending to this story was just cut off.