Hulu’s Into the Dark Episode 3 ‘A Nasty Piece of Work’ – HF Review

Dec 6
The HorrorFatale

Director: Charles Hood
Cast: Kyle Howard, Julian Sands, Dustin Milligan, Angela Sarafyan, Molly Hagan, Natalie Hal

Let me start by hat tipping the writers, directors and cast members of season two of this series, because if I were giving out gold stars for much improved you all would receive one. Don’t get me wrong last season had some decent episodes, but this season Into the Dark has worked out it’s kinks and found it’s stride.

Into the Dark has returned with its Christmas episode, and its so much improved over the oddity of last season, yes Pooka I’m looking at you. This the accurately named episode A Nasty Piece of Work starts airing today on Hulu.

A mid-level employee at a large company finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus or promotion he was expecting. But then his boss invites him over for dinner with a proposal for how he can climb the corporate ladder… by beating his professional rival in a violent competition.

Nasty Piece of Work is slightly different from the others in the series, it’s both a mixture of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Hunger Games. As the synopsis says Julian Sands plays an awful boss who suspends Christmas’s bonuses, which frankly in LA is devastating. But, he gives two rival employees the opportunity of a lifetime. The opportunity basically has these two young men pitted in dangerous situations vying for a promotion.

Into The Dark — “A Nasty Piece of Work” – Episode 203 — A mid-level employee at a large company finds out heÕs not getting the Christmas bonus or promotion he was expecting. But then his boss invites him over for dinner with a proposal for how he can climb the corporate ladder… by beating his professional rival in a violent competition. Essex (Julian Sands), shown. (Photo by: Lisa Rose/Hulu)

The episode is “horrific” in the way it really is an exercise in humanity. What would you do to get ahead? However, there is blood, a little carnage and a body count. These actors do a great job, they are able to craft characters that evoke the correct emotions for the different situations the characters find themselves placed in. It’s not a perfect episode, the middle lags just a shade, but it recovers in the end.

In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Into The Dark is a horror event series from prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum’s independent TV studio. The series includes 12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday and will feature Blumhouse’s signature genre/thriller spin on the story.

Blumhouse’s Into the Dark streams today December 6th, only on Hulu.“