While it moves a little slowly, this episode is actually pretty good. A younger lady and an older one live out a few days in their New York apartments, right across the hall from one another. Interesting because they are the last two in the building to be sure, but also because they are also on the fifth floor. You’d think that if they were the last two in the building, they would at least migrate towards the basement so they didn’t have to take the stairs.
As the episode progresses, the heat gets worse. The earth has left its regular orbit and is progressing towards certain doom by getting ever closer to the sun. Gradually the supplies run low. A stranger comes by and takes the remaining water, then leaves when he recalls his own wife. The younger woman’s paintings start to drip from the heat as the thermometer bursts from the heat (around 130 degrees Fahrenheit).
Just then, the woman’s fever breaks, and we see the real thermometer at about 10 below. And we overhear the older woman talking with the doctor, only to find out that the problem is that the earth isn’t growing closer to the sun, it’s moving further away. So instead of a land of constant light, the woman has awakened to a world of fading light. Nice twist!
