The show was good but not one of my favorites.

I guess I had a hard time with this story because of the protagonists relationships. The protagonists clearly has a bad relationship with his mother-in-law as demonstrated by their outward hatred of one another. He also doesn't seem to have much of a relationship with his wife who is emotionally distant at best. When his wife dies under mysterious circumstances he doesn't seem very distraught. In fact he is so obsessed with the clock that the passing of his wife doesn't seem very important at all. Yet when his mother-in-law succumbs and he finds out about the other victims, he comes to the conclusion that the clock must be silenced. Given his obsession with the clock and his lack of feeling toward the victims (particularly his wife and mother-in-law) I had a hard time identifying with his decision at the end.

I think this story could have been made a lot stronger if the mother-in-law had been "bitten" by the clock first. An escalation of his concern over what was happening would also have made the ending more plausible. Finally, if he had a strong loving relationship with his wife we might have better understood his decision at the end and would have felt more compassion for his predicament.


Having said that, I always enjoy the special effects and found them to be very compelling in this episode.

On to the second episode...