Main cast: Nick Smyth (The Scuba Diver), Charlie Storey (The Little Girl), Jessica Vano (The Wife), and Geoff Mays (The Smokejumper)
Director: Mike Gallant

Does anyone recall that story where a scuba diver is doing his own thing happily when he is somehow caught in a bambi bucket of a helicopter that is gathering water to fight a nearby forest fire? Then, the poor guy falls down to his death when the bucket is emptied over the forest.

Well, The Scuba Diver is that story. Never mind that it is very, very unlikely that one could end up in a bambi bucket as the opening is covered by a grill, I can buy the whole thing as long as it is a compelling story.

This one tries to humanize the scuba diver by making him doing his hardest to get back to his daughter, but the whole thing is so heavy handed, especially when the episode keeps cutting back and forth to the poor fellow in the present and him telling a similar story to his daughter like this is a first year film student’s project and that student doesn’t get the concept of nuance yet.

Then, the episode shows the rotting corpse of the scuba diver in the opening segment of this episode, making me wonder whether the whole episode is one giant troll effort.

Everyone knows he is never going to die, but the episode then goes back in the past and trudges on like there is a chance that he’s going to make it. Maybe the people behind this show believe that the audience is just Eli Roth’s goldfish?

Nick Smyth tries to save the show, but his effort is wasted because the episode is just an arty-farty way of filling about 30 minutes, only someone clearly experienced a short circuit in the brain and decided to put all that work to waste by spoiling the ending in the opening scene itself.

Anyway, that’s a wrap to this season, and it looks like Urban Legend is a one-off series, so that’s it. There is a sad slate of missed opportunities in this show, as while the premise of adapting urban legends to life seem intriguing, the end result is pretty forgettable.

Oh, and what happened to Eli Roth’s career trajectory? He went from an over-hyped shock shlock director and actor to producer of trashy carnival sideshows at the present. Maybe the money is good, or maybe he just needs a job, any job, after his “movie career” resulted in one too many bombs in the box office?

At any rate, this show is done, although the jury is still out as to whether any semblance of Mr Roth’s credibility is just as done. Time to move on to better things!