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Mike's
grandmother has just passed away so he decides
to bring his wife and daughter with him to the funeral
so that they can all have a look at her house. Hidden
inside a painting, Mike finds a note written by George
Washington himself where it says that he was a vicious
cannibal. At first he doesn't really know what to do
with the note, but it seems as if there's not going to
be much time to think about it as a bunch of madmen
soon start trying to get the note from him.
Going into this episode, I hadn't checked up on who had
directed so I paid extra attention to the opening
credits and then it came; Directed by Peter Medak and
I'm like "Peter Medak!? Who the hell is that?". Turns
out he's the director of 80s's horror chiller "The
Changeling" and the cheesy sci-fi horror sequel
"Species 2". Now The Changeling was a great horror
movie but there's no way that those two movies alone
make him a master of horror. I seriously question the
producers of this show's decisions sometimes.
The Washingtonians is yet another episode that tries
to be controversial and make a political statement
(what's up with that?). Peter Medak takes a more drastic
approach than Joe Dante did with his Homecoming though
and tries to convince us that George Washington was in
fact a vicious cannibal who thought that virgins had
the most delicious meat. Ridiculous? Of course. While
Homecoming actually did have some very valid points,
I'm not really sure what The Washingtonians was trying
to point out. In fact, it felt like the joke was more
on their expense rather than the government's.
However, no matter how ridiculous The Washingtonians
may be, it's actually mildly entertaining. Since it's
trying to be over-the-top, it does provide you with
a couple of intentional laughs (I think?) and since
there's always something happening, you're never
really bored. It does manage to keep you watching.
Watching a bunch of old people in white make-up and
ancient wigs playing vicious cannibals just doesn't
get very good though, as I'm sure you understand. It's
watchable but just barely.
We get a decapitation, a chopped up body and, well,
let's just say that the movie had lots
of guts... in more than one way.
The generic piano music didn't bother me, nor did it
do much for the movie.
I don't think that all directors realize that some
stories simply don't work on film - The Washingtonians
is one of those. It's silly, it's too over-the-top,
and the punch-line is just horrible - seriously, it's
probably the worst punch-line of all time. Watchable,
but just barely.
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