Elderly twin sisters are at each other’s throats until they find a common enemy, and a technology-addicted man receives a strange plant from his boyfriend.

The CW’s anthology series of tales crafted around two sentences (though typically a single sentence broken in the middle) returns for a third season with the stories firmly in the realm of EC Comics and Creepshow. They are low budget, contained affairs, and both stories this week hand off punchlines that are not altogether unexpected.

In Crush, Mabel and Jane (Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins, A Series of Unfortunate Events) are eccentric sisters living in a cluttered old house, their sole existences devoted to being mean to the other, but that all changes when a caretaker, allegedly sent by their grandson, tries to influence them. Blood proves thicker than water.

In Plant Life, Ben (Michael Ayers) feels absent from his technology-addicted boyfriend Christian (Donald Heng), even when they’re together. He gifts him an exotic plant, which soon goes all Audrey 2, taking him back to nature. As if to prove the Creepshow connection, this feels like a hybrid of the Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill and They’re Creeping up on You segments of the 1982 movie.

Verdict: Fun, unsophisticated horror, though lacking any great bite. 6/10

Nick Joy