Review of Freddy's Nightmares

Just as ex-New Line Cinema Head CEO & mogul Robert Shaye stated in the 5-hour NOES documentary, "well... the first 10 episodes we're pretty good... but after that..." and Shaye was spot on in his approximation, although, I personally feel that the last enjoyable, good quality and interesting episode was THE END OF THE WORLD, in which Mary Kohnert's dreams started affecting her waking reality & then even managed to narrowly avert WWIII.... FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES did start off pretty strongly all things considered, even its uneven tone and predominance of episodes lacking much of or even any Freddy involvement, still managed to entertain viewers with imaginative, appropriately surreal and nightmarish episodes that included plenty of in-jokes for those in the know, surprising guest stints from the likes of George Lazenby, Patty McCormack and the lamentable Susan Oliver😢 and was even further complemented with a good sized built-in audience base eager to see next week's episode (hell, my grandmother was even watching it one evening when I arrived at her house, and she had never even been a horror fan!?!) Toward the latter half of the first season, there seemed to be a sudden shift in the look, over all tone, writing and the production values of the series, even Krueger's appearance changed quite noticeably (this was the time when, in response to Englund's severe dermatological skin problem due to the continuous application of the prosthetic latex makeup used to transform him into Freddy Krueger, Mark Shostrom or Howard Berger created an entirely different design and a new procedure was implemented, limiting the amount of time it took to apply the Freddy makeup, allowing the arduous daily process of its application to become far less intensive.😊) There were a few moments later on that were able to break free and shine in a similar vein to the earlier episodes grandeur, such as LIFE STINKS, freddysomething, and especially the series' finale, IT"S MY PARTY & YOU'LL DIE IF I WANT YOU TO, which did successfully afford the show to end with a BIG, fat, noisy (and ridiculously dumb!😒) BANG!! but for the most part, after THE END OF THE WORLD, the NIGHTMARES episodes always struck me as being some really bad, uninteresting, poorly staged, terribly written, uninspired and sadly, beyond lackluster, regrettably throw-away moments in truly awful television!! 😢 But, boy some of them were just soooo good!! 😎