Although I haven't seen the entire season yet, I'm already quite certain that "The Companion" will remain one of my favorite short stories in the "Creepshow" reboot. I second the other reviewers who stated that this is the first (and so far, only) segment that truly brings back the feeling of creepy and sinister anthology stories of the 70s and 80s. The same genius who wrote "Bubba-Ho-Tep", Joe R. Lansdale, serves a script that features a downright fantastic scarecrow monster (with animal jaws!), an atmospheric flashback and a sardonic finale. The second segment, "Lydia Lane's better half", features some good ideas (battle between strong women and an earthquake in LA) and an always-effective setting (a stuck elevator) but the plot badly suffers from the "take a deep breath and think" syndrome. This basically means that the lead protagonist easily could have avoided his/her nasty ordeal, IF they only took a moment to think. In this case, successful businesswoman Lydia Layne shouldn't even have tried to cover up the death of her young assistant/lover. It was a freaky accident! If she simply declared that Celia was so upset that she fell, or even that they had a banal fight that went awry, she would have gotten away with it. Granted, it wouldn't make much of a horror tale, but like this it's completely implausible for me. The generous rating 7/10 is mostly for "The Companion", and only slightly for the gore and beautiful women in "Lydia Layne's better half".
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