Main cast: Mark Nassar (Tony Sterling), Kaye Ballard (Faye Ingram), Mitchell Whitfield (Matt), and Rachel Jones (Allison)
Director: John Auerbach

Yikes. Just when I thought that the second season of Monsters is shaping up to be better than the first one, Rerun shows up.

Allison has a big crush on movie star and bad boy Tony Sterling, but he’s dead, a fact that doesn’t exactly break the heart of her good friend Matt, the stereotypical nerd that is in love with her.

Then Tony somehow shows up, looking like he’s back from the dead and hungry for Allison’s affections. Perhaps he is hungry for… something else?

It is up to Matt with the help of Tony’s agent Faye Ingram to find out what Tony is up to, before he loses Allison for good.

First off, a good chunk of this episode is an interminable watch because there is absolutely nothing happening aside from Allison acting like a squeaky-voiced idiot.

Really, I don’t think Rachel Jones is even trying here, because Allison seems lost and confused most of the time, like she’s somehow wandered into the set and doesn’t know where she is, much less what she is supposed to do.

Kaye Ballard overacts for comedy, which would be fine if her co-stars had received the memo. Alas, Ms Jones is a lost cause, while Mitchell Whitfield is better only in comparison to her. Mark Nassar has the ample amount of charm and sleaze to carry off his role, but his character is more of a Scooby-Doo villain than anything else, so all three of them make poor Ms Ballard look like she’s high, or at least, way higher than the rest of the cast.

There isn’t anything here that hadn’t been done much better in various teen horror-comedies, so this one is definitely a clunker and a season filler that has very little reason to justify its existence.

Unless one has to watch every episode of this show, it’s best to skip this thing. Life’s too precious to waste on something like this.