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Original Airdate - October 4, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Healer" is in the third hour of the series, and it was still trying to find its footing. This is a rather pedestrian episode, which bears some resemblance to the plot in the second Indiana Jones movie, where sacred Indian stones have the ability to heal people, except in this case it's an American Indian stone. It also seems to resemble the old story of misuse of powers and how it can turn on the person who misued them. Eric Bogosian is much better than the performance he gives here, which is flat and unconvincing. Vincent Gardenia's a consummate actor, but his character has no redeeming features...he's petty and vicious, and determined to ruin everyone. While I realize there are people like this in the world, he might have been a bit more nuanced. All-in-all a joyless exercise and not really worthy of the Twilight Zone name. |
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