Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Fridays, I will be reviewing Freddy’s Nightmares, a horror anthology show which ran in syndication from 1988 to 1990. The entire series can be found on Tubi!

This week, Mary Crosby returns.  And hey — is that Wings Hauser!?

Episode 2.14 “Easy Come, Easy Go”

(Dir by William Malone, originally aired on January 14th, 1990)

In this sequel to Lucky Stiff, Greta (Mary Crosby) is still living in her mansion with her new husband, Eugene (Tracey Walter).  She’s married to Eugene so that Eugene won’t turn her in for having killed her previous husband.  Eugene says that he’ll leave the mansion as soon as they consummate the marriage.  Greta, however, has standards.  As a result, Eugene lives in the basement.

When her former brother-in-law, Wes Roscoe (Richard Eden), shows up, it doesn’t take long for a lingerie-clad Greta to seduce him.  It soon becomes apparent that Wes wants her money and vengeance for the death of his brother.  She makes plans to poison him but, when Wes attacks her, her life is saved by Eugene.  Greta realizes that she loves Eugene.  She sleeps with him.  Immediately afterwards, Eugene accidentally drinks the poison and dies.  Sorry, Eugene!

Shortly afterwards, Greta’s sister, Peggy (Jill Jacobson), shows up with her husband, eyepatch-wearing Sonny (Wings Hauser).  Sonny is Greta’s ex.  In fact, he blames her for the loss of his eye.  (They got into an argument in a car and a slap from Greta sent Sonny plunging eye-first into the gear shift.)  Greta seduces and then kills Sonny, just as she’s done with every man who has tried to take her money.  But then Peggy turns out to be a sociopath herself (“I killed mom and dad.”) and proceeds to shoot Greta.

“Easy come, easy go,” Greta gasps.

This episode was so over-the-top and cheerfully sordid that it was impossible not to enjoy it.  Mary Crosby threw herself into the femme fatale role.  Wings Hauser, as always, was amusingly disturbed as the bad guy.  Both stories were wonderfully sordid.  Even without any supernatural elements, this was a truly fun episode.