
Nine new tales of terror comprise the second season of the U.K.'s popular "midnight" TV horror anthology Urban Gothic. The once-popular "touch the car" fad yields unpleasant results in the opener, "Sandman." The characters in "Membrane" comes to grief while playing God. In "Necormance," a girl kills herself so her spirit can bond with her goth boyfriend. A shapeshifting serial killer sets London on its ear in "Eater." Anthony Daniels, best known as Star Wars' C3PO, shows up in mufti, more or less, in "Serotin Wild." And "Ritual Slaughter" is set in what amounts to a training camp for multiple murderers. The season and the series concludes with the Pirandellian "The End," wherein an episode of Urban Gothic is interrupted by a bizarre pirate-TV transmission; and the two-part "Dollhouse Burns," all about a freeze-dried teenager and a cult that has disastrously lost its way. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi