Main cast: Olivia Brown (Jewel), Henry Brown (Vance), Renn Woods (Cora), and Valentina Quinn (Angie)
Director: Manny Coto
In Love Hurts, Jewel meets Vance, who works at the office of the department of motor vehicle that she’s applying her driver’s license at. He’s charming, he’s cute, and she’s immediately smitten.
Okay, so he’s married; his wealthy father-in-law is responsible for his job and pretty much everything good in his life so he’s unlikely to leave the wife.
Still, there’s nothing Jewel can’t fix, as her former voodoo teacher Angie knows the woo-woo stuff, and she’s going to get Angie to make Henry to teach her that spell that will leave his pregnant wife Cora no matter what…
Vance is a horrible person, treating his wife like crap and insulting her to her face just because he can, so I have no idea what Jewel sees in him. Then again, that fool is dumb enough to dabble with the unknown just to get a man she has just met in three weeks, and she still wants him even after he slaps her in the face in front of his wife. This damned fool deserves what she gets.
The highlight of this episode is that hammy “sexy” love scene which sees Jewel in her lingerie seducing Vance by making him take an eye test and spell the word “THROB”, heh.
No, wait, the hilariously gruesome development at the end is also a memorable moment. That one elevates this episode to something that deserves to be in Tales from the Crypt, as this and the scene I’ve just described earlier, make this one feel very oddly grown-up in Monsters.
Even the bad Southern accents of the cast members add to the charm of this episode.
On the downside, the episode also drags on for the most part, with the two scenes I’ve mentioned being the only memorable moments in an otherwise tepid episode about two dumb women fighting over the love of an ass.
In fact, I was prepared to be bored while sitting through the early parts of the episode, and it was those scenes that saved this one from being another mediocre episode.
So, all in all, Love Hurts is in many ways another so-so episode, but the memorable scenes make this one a better episode compared to other so-so ones.
