Main cast: Kadianne Whyte (Miranda), Suehyla El-Attar (Sara), Chris Mayers (Barry), Johnathon Schaech (Dalton), Abigail Dolan (Theresa), Cynthia Evans (Maria), Boston Pierce (Michael), Samantha Worthen (Mrs Jones), and Reagan Higgins (Mercy)
Directors: Axelle Carolyn and Joe Lynch

The theme for this episode is supreme secondhand embarrassment. Yes, really.

First, Stranger Sings. I don’t know what compelled screenwriter Jordana Arkin to believe that peppering the script with hideously awkward dialogues is a good idea, but here there are some really excruciating “dialogues” that far outstrip the worst lines in the previous episode. I am starting to suspect that the screenwriters for this show are not human beings, but rather an AI programmed to put together words scraped from the most banal materials found on social media today.

Let me see what other stuff Ms Arkin has written for… modern day cartoons, more modern day cartoons… ah, that explains it. Moving on, people.

This one is about obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Barry being lured by Sara, an apparently nice lady he assists in a bookstore, into the apartment she shares with Miranda, where he learns that Miranda is actually a siren that feeds on men after luring them to her with her song. She wants him to perform a surgery to switch her vocal cords for Sara’s. That way, Sara gets to be a man-eating siren, while Miranda can finally be a normal human like she’s always wanted to be.

The fact that they want an O&G guy to perform such a surgery on them should be a red flag that these people are imbeciles of the first order.

Barry is supposed to be this nice guy that immediately blabs his entire sad history to strangers while asking whether opening the door for him is offensive, and if yes, he’d like her to consent before he opens the door. Considering how he turns out to be a pathetic simp for any woman that even breathes the air in the same vicinity as his, he is way too dumb to be relatable or root for.

I’m tempted to believe that Sara and Miranda are characters that satirize perfectly the ridiculously smug misandry prevalent among the loudest idiots on social media, while Barry is that of the white knights desperate to please these women while hiding their own proclivities to sexually harass and even assault women behind closed doors.

In reality, though, every character comes off as brain-damaged in various ways here. It’s hard to see this as a satire or a parody when the episode is scripted by someone whose entire knowledge of human communication seems to be obtained from never logging out of her social media. Worse, the episode has a dumb pay-off and I feel like I’ve lost brain cells watching this thing.

Meter Reader is a more straightforward segment. The world is engulfed by a pandemic that… causes people to be possessed by demons, and some people are natural carriers for the gene that cause the, I guess, “demon infection”. Okay, I’ll go with that. I’ve read and hear for more outrageous things when it comes to the coof over the last two years, after all, so this is nothing. Those that are immune are drafted to be Meter Readers. They are named that way due to a clear lack of imagination and creativity, as well as because they use this meter device to tell whether one is infected or not. They will then try to do some woo-woo to cure those that are infected, and decapitate those that are beyond help.

In this one, Dalton a meter reader succeeds in removing one infectious case, but this causes him to come home a few minutes past the 7 pm deadline he has imposed on himself. His daughter Theresa refuses to let him in and even tries to decapitate him, as per his own instructions to his family, while his wife Maria tries to keep the entire situation from spiraling out of control. Is Dalton infected? Are they all going to be possessed by the fun demons?

This one has a simple story and, for once, a complete lack of twists and turns considering how this show loves to toss them my way. Unfortunately, just like way too many of those other segments, this one has a well-worn story line with very little done to keep things new or interesting. People that know their tropes will find this segment tad too familiar for its own good.

Nonetheless, this one has far less cringe than the first segment, so I consider that a win.

The first segment is excruciatingly bad, while the second one is on the meh side. Averaging out the bad and the meh means this episode gets a most lackluster kind of two oogies.