Main cast: Richard Borg (Larch Lazaar), Christine Dunford (Laura Daniel), Christopher Shaw (Brother Roy), Charlotte Booker (Helen), and Robert Valenzi (The Sin-Sop)
Director: PJ Pesce
The Sin-Sop, as Southern preacher Brother Roy explains to the skeptical reporter Laura Daniel, is actually a corpse of whom Roy calls the world’s most evil man. When you touch the corpse, it extracts your sin, in the form of yellowish goo that is then deposited into a nearby bucket. Isn’t that cool?
The “cleansing process” isn’t free, though. Roy charges based on how much goo is collected in the bucket—$20 for the first gallon, and the price goes up considerably with increasing amounts.
However, one needs to let their sins be drained completely from their body before using the sin-sop again, or bad things can happen.
What are the bad things? Laura will soon find out.
Okay, remember how I said that this season of Monsters is most grown-up in nature? Well, a woman touches the corpse, who briefly comes to life, and while her hand is held tightly in the corpse’s, the woman starts moaning and shrieking like she’s having the best sex of her life. I wish parents all the best in explaining that kind of religious experience to their kids! Seriously, people, don’t watch the third season with young kids if you don’t want to explain certain things that you are not ready to talk to your kids about!
This is an interesting episode, but Monsters will always Monsters in that it deliberately handicaps itself with some annoying issues that it could have easily prevented on its own.
For one, this is a comedy, one with sex moans, and yes, being a comedy is already a handicap in itself in the context of this show as it continues to mistake cringe for humor.
Then, there are the main characters, who are plain horrible. Laura Daniel is one of the most obnoxious characters I’ve seen on this show, as she is snotty, dismissive, and does some really weird-creepy kind of sexual harassment on Brother Roy from the get go, while the priest is an over the top Southern redneck stereotype.
Finally, things just resolve by themselves in this episode, so the two most obnoxious characters to ever grace this show end up getting rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.
Ugh, comedy will be and is already the death of this show, I tell you.
