Main cast: Natalie Paul (Valerie Coates), Tina Majorino (Jenny Booth), Michael Cassidy (Tom), and Micah Joe Parker (Riley)
Director: Emma Tammi

Valerie and Tom Coates are a new couple in town. Valerie is eight and a half months pregnant, and it hasn’t been easy for her—she ended up quitting her job because of the constant nausea and aches and all, but still, she’s almost due so there’s an end in sight to her misery. When she attends a breathing class, however, she and Tom befriend Jenny, another pregnant mom in her class, and she seems nice. Jenny’s a pediatric nurse, so when she invites the two over for a comfy stay at Jenny’s farm house, she and Tom accept the invitation.

Oops. Jenny is cray cray. Shocker, I know. Valerie and her baby are now in danger, so oh no, what will happen next?

Yes, Delivered is basically a pregnant Misery and… I don’t know. Tina Majorino does a good job playing an unhinged psycho, but there is something obviously off with Jenny from the get go that it’s not really a shock when she brings out the pickax. Valerie is a strong victim trying to overcome her situation to the best she can, but this episode feels oddly dragged out to fill up the running time. The set up feels unnecessarily long for such half-baked characters that I end up still barely caring by the time the credits roll, and when the whole thing ends, it feels subdued and even anticlimactic. People that cannot stand the sight of animals getting harmed or killed may beg to differ, though, but I’m not a cat person, so it’s not that bad to me, heh.

At the end of the day, I find myself mulling over why this episode is even necessary, aside from filling up a slot in the Into the Dark series. Is it telling any new story, or any story at all in a fresh and exciting manner? Well, not really. Is the acting particularly noteworthy? Again, not really. The whole thing is kinda meh. Hence, this episode is just sort of there, like something that exists just to take up space. Sure, it’s watchable if one doesn’t mind the boredom, but still, what’s the point? Just watch something else, or not.

All things considered, this one only serves to perpetuate some mild existential crisis about the bewildering paradoxical nature of boring entertainment in one’s life. Even then, it’s so easy to shrug off the non-issue and just move on to better things to think about.