I´m watching "Night Gallery" just right now and yesterday I saw the episode called "The Housekeeper", starring Larry Hagman, Suzy Parker and Jeanette Nolan. I enjoyed it but I´m afraid I didn´t understand the ending. Could anyone explain it to me, please?
shareWhat I took from it, Hagman keeps putting homely old ladies' souls into his beautiful wife's body over and over again. Each time, the old woman becomes corrupted by her beauty and he has to get another old woman. That's why she asks how long will this go on and Hagman replies "Until we get it right."
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OK, but that old lady that appears at the ending, where does she come from?
(Besides, I don´t know if it´s exact to say that the old woman "becomes corrupted" by her beauty, since she rejects Hagman´s amorous advances. Maybe it´s because she means to leave him penniless?).
Of course the wife is going to leave him penniless. What's happening is he thinks that if he gets an odd-looking old lady and puts her soul into the beautiful body of his wife, the old lady will be so grateful that she'll stay with him. However, in each instance, the old woman in the young woman's body becomes bitchy just like the wife and is going to try to take him to the cleaners. Hagman's character saw this happening again and came with another old lady to do the transfer again.
Annoying the world since 1960!
That's an interesting take.
I didn't see it as her becoming bitchy and corrupt. I saw it as her being appalled that he just killed his "wife", then pounces on her physically as if she owes him. So she decides 'Uh uh, I didn't sign up for this, I'm outta here, just gimme the money you promised me.'
I admit I could have missed something, but that's the way I took it.
I don't want to make trouble, all I want is a drink.
Hagan has been courting her offscreen, the way we saw with the first woman, a just in case he needed her, situation. Which he did.
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