6.5/10112 votes#1 - The Face
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1989
When two brothers break into an old woman's house to rob her, they wind up killing her, but not before she bites one of them, leaving him with a nasty scar to remember her by.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10120 votes#2 - Portrait of the Artist
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1989
The art being displayed in a local exhibit may not be what it appears to be as the haunting figures hanging in the gallery resemble those of recent missing persons.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10126 votes#3 - A Bond of Silk
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1989
A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: N/A
5.3/1098 votes#4 - Rerun
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1989
A student has somehow brought back a recently deceased TV star that pledges his undying love for her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/10117 votes#5 - Love Hurts
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1989
A DMV employee begins an affair with his wife and father-in-law being the only thing holding him back. However, the seductress taps into her learned dark magic to make him all hers.
Director: Manny Coto
Writer: Edithe Swensen
6.9/10133 votes#6 - The Farmer's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1989
A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening and he is surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10103 votes#7 - Jar
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1989
A private detective looking for a missing person discovers an innkeeper who sells mysterious jars.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
5.2/10105 votes#8 - The Demons
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1989
An alien accidentally conjures an insurance agent who, in order to serve his master's wishes, must summon a demon of his own.
Director: Scott Alexander
Writer: Robert Sheckley, Martin Olson
6.7/1095 votes#9 - Reaper
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1989
A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josef Anderson
5.0/10100 votes#10 - The Mandrake Root
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1989
While cleaning her grandmother's house, Angela finds a strange plant growing in the basement. It soon grows into what was once her grandmother's lover who soon seduces her, but has an increasing thirst for blood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.6/1094 votes#11 - Half as Old as Time
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1989
An old man finds a Fountain of Youth, but with a cost...
Director: N/A
Writer: Thomas Babe
6.6/10111 votes#12 - Museum Hearts
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1990
A cheating man finds himself locked after-hours in a museum with three women: his girlfriend; the woman he's cheating on her with; and the reanimated body of a Druid priestess, who claims to be the spirit of woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/1099 votes#13 - Habitat
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1990
A girl volunteers to become a test study for an alien aboard its ship, only to realize the loneliness is driving her insane.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.4/10115 votes#14 - Bed and Boar
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1990
A traveling salesman spends the night in a hotel next door to a beautiful woman and her husband, who hides a dark secret.
Director: Sara Driver
Writer: David Odell
5.3/10132 votes#15 - Mr. Swlabr
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1990
Roy Barton lives a life of misery. Since his dad left he has been made into a slave, serving his mother and sister hand and foot. Hope comes in the form of a creature who calls himself ""Swlabr"". With help from Swlabr, Roy is able to turn the tables on his pesky family.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jule Selbo
5.2/1094 votes#16 - Perchance to Dream
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1990
A psychiatrist and a girl help a man who is having strange dreams that may well spell his demise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
6.8/10112 votes#18 - The Offering
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1990
After receiving a head injury in a car crash, a man recovering in the hospital finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Dan Simmons
6.7/10117 votes#19 - Far Below
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1990
A nosy city official stumbles into a secret operation beneath a New York Subway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.5/1095 votes#20 - Micro Minds
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1990
A couple of scientists make a dramatic breakthrough when an antenna finds a signal from intelligent life. However, the world of these beings turns out not to be swimming in a sea of stars, but in a mere tank.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/1084 votes#21 - Refugee
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1990
An American secret agent finds himself being tasked with one more mission. He is to help a Soviet scientist, but finds that the forces he is to help her escape from are more dangerous than the Russians.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10113 votes#22 - The Gift
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1990
A young boy has been kidnapped and locked in the basement of a cabin where he meets and befriends a strange beast he discovers to be a man with many powers. He can help them escape their captors, but there are unfortunate limits to such abilities.
Director: Jeffrey Wolf
Writer: N/A
6.9/10109 votes#23 - The Bargain
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/27/1990
A homely owner of a bookshop is very much in love with a frequent customer who barely seems to know she exists. When she calls a number in a very old magazine, she finds that they are in business and willing to sell her a mask that will guarantee her the beauty that will catch the man's attention.
Director: Tom Noonan
Writer: N/A
6.7/10107 votes#24 - The Family Man
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/3/1990
A young boy tries to protect his family from an alien, whom he can only see using his dead father's glasses.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gordon Rayfield
The Best Episodes of Monsters Season 2
Every episode of Monsters Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monsters Season 2!
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Face" is the best rated episode of "Monsters" season 2. It scored 6.5/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1989. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Portrait of the Artist".
