In just two consecutive hideous episodes of Survivor Tocantins, all hope has been lost.
Over the past few decades, David Lynch's babbling dwarfs, ominous red curtains and just-around-the-corner episodes of hideous violence have become shorthand for a generation of art-house filmmaking.
Hideous things happen on every episode of "The Walking Dead" (AMC) or "Game of Thrones" (HBO), but most viewers know that zombies don't exist in real life, and that knights and priestesses are really found only in the Middle Ages or Middle-earth.
Sure, the show celebrates everything that's hideous about the world but three episodes in, I've completely drunk the Kool-Aid.
As a result of his firing, Smithers became a "hideous drunken wreck" and when Mr. Burns was shot later in the episode, Smithers thought he might have done it while he was intoxicated.
A recent episode of the dystopian television series "Black Mirror" begins with a soldier hunting down and killing hideous humanoids called roaches.
Many people remember the famous Twilight Zone episode where this woman is forced to undergo plastic surgery because she is so hideous-looking.
Ron Martin of 411Mania called the plot "unimaginative" and wrote "I suppose there's only enough episodes you can go through before Moe's has to modernize in the most hideous way".
