The plot makes no sense, and the main characters behave with even less forethought than usual, making this a typical horrific-details-build-up-until-the-main-three-characters-connect-at-the-end-and-are-miraculously-saved episode, but a superbly atmospheric one, given the highly artful and genuinely scary depictions of the netherworld-of-the-week. Too bad a coherent plot (and a balanced soundtrack) couldn't have accompanied this triumph of atmosphere and set design. The ep does somehow manage to be genuinely suspenseful despite the murky story progression, and despite the outsized threat. This show works best when the team is facing a threat specific to a given item and to the potential sphere of destruction of same. Here, the threat is almost comically cosmic, and so we have the show working against its own, finely-honed format. The next ep would make the same mistake of pitting the team against an outsized threat, and with an even sillier ending, but at least its plot was far more coherent. Luckily, "Friday" soon returned to (what were for this series) more realistic challenges. I love this show for its unfettered fantasy, but all-out fantasy demands a real-world anchor, and that's chiefly where this one fails.
