This is yet another interesting script in the underrated Perversions of Science series. This is really Yancy Butler's chance to shine. She's a futuristic mogul who hires a scientist to build a machine to go back in time after she's altered her body in the pursuit of perfection. Why? So she can go back to the 90s and romance her own perfect partner, the playboy Nick Boyer. I won't spoil the quite surprising twist, but the core of the episode is why she's so obsessed with Nick, who we see flashback video is rather full of himself. At first, it doesn't make sense.
The episode is based on a comic story of the same name from Weird Science #16. In the original story, Seymour and Helen are a couple putting off marriage. When Seymour's great-great-grandson Zenob (complete with a futuristic cape) visits the past on a time vacation, Seymour convinces him to go back in time to kill a millionaire who Seymour's great-grandmother divorced before their marriage broke so they can inherit his vast wealth. He does so. It turns out that the millionaire was Helen's great-grandfather, so she vanishes in a puff of smoke, therefore negating the whole reason for the murder in the first place. The whole thing is an amusing trifle with a surprise ending.
Yancy spends the episode either in a revealing body suit, in a trench coat (and nothing else), or in a red dress picked just to stimulate Nick's interest in her. There's also a steamy sex scene, but no full nudity. I think that critical reactions to this episode really show to what degree attitudes toward heterosexuality have darkened since the 1990s - the intersectional left would probably hate it. David Leisure, known in part from his Subaru commercials in the 1980s, plays the role of a troubled bank manager. For me, it's a classic Twilight Zone type story with a bit of "perversion" mixed in. You can't say they didn't warn you - after all, the series is called PERVERSIONS OF SCIENCE.
The episode is based on a comic story of the same name from Weird Science #16. In the original story, Seymour and Helen are a couple putting off marriage. When Seymour's great-great-grandson Zenob (complete with a futuristic cape) visits the past on a time vacation, Seymour convinces him to go back in time to kill a millionaire who Seymour's great-grandmother divorced before their marriage broke so they can inherit his vast wealth. He does so. It turns out that the millionaire was Helen's great-grandfather, so she vanishes in a puff of smoke, therefore negating the whole reason for the murder in the first place. The whole thing is an amusing trifle with a surprise ending.
Yancy spends the episode either in a revealing body suit, in a trench coat (and nothing else), or in a red dress picked just to stimulate Nick's interest in her. There's also a steamy sex scene, but no full nudity. I think that critical reactions to this episode really show to what degree attitudes toward heterosexuality have darkened since the 1990s - the intersectional left would probably hate it. David Leisure, known in part from his Subaru commercials in the 1980s, plays the role of a troubled bank manager. For me, it's a classic Twilight Zone type story with a bit of "perversion" mixed in. You can't say they didn't warn you - after all, the series is called PERVERSIONS OF SCIENCE.
