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, a loft sees a lot of action!

Episode 2.17 “Interior Loft Later”

(Dir by Ken Wiederhorn, originally aired on February 4th, 1990)

The loft from last week’s episode returns!

The loft is now home to sculptor Alex McFain (Robert F. Lyons).  Alex spends most of his time sitting and sleeping in a bath tub and complaining about the fact that his work doesn’t make him much money.  When his wife, Fabina (Fabiana Udenio) accidentally kills one of Alex’s models, Alex comes up with a brilliant plan.  He’ll fake his own death so his work will become valuable!

At first, the plan works.  The only problem is that Alex can no longer leave the loft.  With Fabina constantly going outside to sell his work, Alex starts to worry that she’s having an affair with another man.  It tuns out that he’s half-right.  Fabina is having an affair but it’s with another woman.  Alex is shocked but he’s then killed by decorative sword that falls off of the ceiling.  Now, his work will be really valuable!

Months later, Fabina’s former boy toy, Art (Dean Fortunato), shows up at the apartment and discovers that it is now occupied by Stacy (Leslie Bega) and Gina (Tory Polone).  Art moves in with them and proceeds to seduce both of them.  He tells one that he’s an environmental activist being pursued by a cartel of fishermen.  He tells the other that he’s being chased by the mob.  When Stacy and Gina compare notes, it’s bad news for both Art.

Freddy doesn’t do anything in either one of these stories, other than introduce them.  Both stories follow the familiar pattern where anything overly dramatic that happens is ultimately revealed to be a dream.  Neither story is all that interesting but Robert F. Lyons does his best to bring some life to his role of the sculptor pretending to be dead.  As has so often been the case with the second season, this episode isn’t great or even memorable but it’s still a hundred times better than the majority of the first season.