5- Judy Miller, Come On Down

This episode beat REQUIEM FOR A DREAM to the punch with regards to the scene of a woman obsessed with a game show getting hallucinogenically sucked into it. The first half concerns her family woes and culminates in a series of cathartic nightmares and, eventually, victory on her TV show in the real world. The second half is actually much more interesting- the couple starts to fall apart after they strike it rich and an old woman from the future comes to warn the woman about her fate.

The fairly straightforward narrative in the second half, combined with the lack of intrusive and gratutious nightmare scenes, makes for fairly compelling viewing. It's nothing original or classic, but it keeps this episode from being run-of-the-Fredmill crapola.