A marvelous, thoughtful piece of science fiction. Kevin McCarthy's performance as a dashing middle-aged professor is exceptional, including a gripping (albeit apocryphal) history lecture, an impetuous marriage proposal, and a surge of guilt and heartbreak. A climactic confrontation toward the end of the episode--beautifully directed, in which a ghostly character appears before Walter Jameson and bids him look into her eyes--calls to mind Hamlet's mournful lament to the skull of Yorick: "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh at that."
Review of Long Live Walter Jameson
