Forgotten TV: 'The Outer Limits' and the Neighbors from Hell!

 Another look at the lowest rated Episodes of this Classic 1990s Series.

This time, it is a far less Sci-Fi Tale and more of a weird, Dark Comedy.

In 'What Will the Neighbors Think?,' a woman named Mona is a severe hypochondriac.

She's also a 'lifer' in her Apartment Building, seemingly being born there (according to her narration) and living with her Husband.

While lurking in the basement, she gets shocked when she backs into an open wire!

After this, she starts to hear noise everywhere!

She soon learns to focus this and now can hear everyone's thoughts!

For some artistic reason, this is presented by them making big, angry faces into the camera.

Weird choice, Helen Shaver!

Mona tries to make things right by helping her Neighbors out in their crazy lives, but it doesn't work out.

This on top of the fact that some mysterious company is trying to buy the building.

So, Plan B, is make them all try to kill each other.

This works, but not before she gets tazed by her angry Neighbor 2 pictures above.

This seems to silence the voices and she is happy to see her Husband- who has been oddly absent for much of the action- again.

However, she suddenly hears the voices yet again- much louder!

Her Husband reveals that he's the man trying to buy up the Building and he wants her dead.
She dives out the window and gets 'peace.'

The End.

An Episode that, yeah, I can see why people don't like it.

This one is...yeah, I can see what they were going for.
There's a whole lot of people that love Dark Comedies- like Very Bad Things, Jawbreaker and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead- and I have nothing against that.

This one maybe swings too far, making all of the Characters hard to like- especially not helped by the crazy, angry close-ups.

A key issue here is that this one doesn't feel like a hard Sci-Fi Story, only having the Mind Reading as a key Plot Point. 
Does this feel a bit out of place?  Kind of.
If you only watched this Episode, would you go 'Oh, this is The Outer Limits?'  Not so much.

In summary, I don't hate this one...but I don't know if I need to see it again.
It has some moments, but it is just too, well, in your face.

And yes, that is Bruce Harwood.

Next time, I jump back to Season 2 for the 4th lowest rated Episode.  With many notable names, why is this one viewed so poorly?  See you then...