It's a little like 'Tales of the Unexpected', except that where those stories are sometimes confusing throughout only to have the whole point of the mystery revealed in the twist at the end, the Outer Limits is almost the opposite in that the storylines are often compelling until the last five minutes where the ending reveals a surprising lack of plot development and a strange petering out of all the storylines which appeared throughout to have potential to at least provide a slightly unexpected ending. Not that it stops us of course, because occasionally there is something in an episode which makes it worth watching regardless of how everything pans out, like this guy, from an episode called 'Mutant':
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Currently, we're watching one about a bee who's turned into a woman for some as yet undisclosed purpose (I suspect to stop the scientist who can talk to bees from making the most effective insecticide ever) and which will no doubt end with a bit of a whimper, but strangely be no less compelling for that.
ETA Indeed, the purpose of the bee girl was never fully revealed - she turned up at the entomologist's lab, pissed off his wife before killing her (using bees of course) and then tried to get him to marry her at which point he threw her out of the window. Not quite sure what the point was, but enjoying it nonetheless.
