TFTD: The Last Car.

Here’s another one of my favorite Tales from the Darkside episodes. Actually, it might be my second favorite story from the whole series:

The Last Car is one of TFTD’s strangest offerings. A young woman on a routine train ride finds herself frustrated with the trip’s unusually long length. The train never makes any stops, and the few passengers sharing her car seem oddly ambivalent about it. She feels as if she’s been riding that train for days. Has she?

To be honest, even after seeing this episode dozens of times, I’m still not 100% sure what it was about. Were they all stuck in purgatory? Or maybe some random time loop that just happened to affect this one train? Course, there’s always the possibility that the story was just weird for weirdness’s sake, but it’s more fun to look for a meaning.

If you watch it, I’d love to hear your theories. (And you should watch it. It’s creepy and perfect for the dark.)