TV review: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities has death and an octopus thing but is it scary?

25 minutes into a 45-minute show, and I haven’t been scared once...

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities: Executive producer Guillermo del Toro in episode 'Lot 36' on Netflix

I had read that Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix) is a throw-back nod to The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected. The only thing unexpected about the first episode of the series is that I watched it to the end. And that end was so under-whelming, I wasn’t even sure it was over.

Lot 36 is the name of this first episode of a series of so-called curiosities, curated by Guillermo del Toro, an Oscar-winning director for The Shape of Water.