SPOILERS AHEAD – PLEASE DON’T READ UNLESS YOU’VE WATCHED CREEPSHOW 03.05! Yes, you’ve been warned!
Time Out:
Tim (Matthew Barnes) is a man with attainable goals where he conspires to have more time to complete them. He finds the solution only to discover a catch to it.
via Shudder:
“Tim finds the answer to always wishing there were more hours in the day, but the success he can now achieve might not be worth the cost.”
Jeffrey F. January returns to direct another segment this season after the mild “The Last Tsuburaya.” This whole episode of Creepshow deals with time management in different ways. In the opening segment, an ambitious young man is determined to maximize his time to the point of absurdity in order to advance in his career. Apparently, no one ever told him about how to work smarter, not harder. This being a morality tale, Tim pays a serious price for trying to bend time to achieve his goals, which makes this segment one of the few stories on this series where you actually have sympathy for the protagonist. Tim does nothing wrong and had admirable goals. There is no ulterior motive or sin he is trying to atone for. This is why the final twist is such a gut puncher (the cheap looking CGI didn’t help either).
The town of Oakwood has a storied past, and the opening of a time capsule is an exciting moment of remembrance. But can a local librarian keep a darker part of the town’s history from repeating itself?
I feel that the less said about this segment, the better. This is one Creepshow story that needs to be experienced knowing as little as possible. I wasn’t even aware that they were doing an animated segment this season and my experience watching it was better b/c of it. This was easily one of the strongest stories of the season and maybe the series thus far. It made me wonder why Shudder didn’t order Creepshow as a solely animated series in the 1st place?