I get a real kick out of the plot in this episode with the conflict of the episodes being that all of human kind is placed in peril by the abysmal example Harry Mudd set's for our race. It's comical macabre.
The performance and off the wall mannerisms of Mudd are just impossible to ignore and not be somewhat beguiled.
The episode also succeeds in just being comically weird with the enterprise crew providing disorder into the androids logic sense of order.
We even get a light dusting of a message in this episode ---- the brief exploration of living life in a gilded cage with all wants and desires being taking care of while being tempting is it's own hell in a way ----- This was clearly not the episode for kirk to say, "I need my pain!" but we will come to that in due course.
It's a fun episode and well executed.
The performance and off the wall mannerisms of Mudd are just impossible to ignore and not be somewhat beguiled.
The episode also succeeds in just being comically weird with the enterprise crew providing disorder into the androids logic sense of order.
We even get a light dusting of a message in this episode ---- the brief exploration of living life in a gilded cage with all wants and desires being taking care of while being tempting is it's own hell in a way ----- This was clearly not the episode for kirk to say, "I need my pain!" but we will come to that in due course.
It's a fun episode and well executed.