Witchblade (that Blade)

Witchblade was a series that ran for two years on the TNT cable channel. It was based on a comic book series of the same name.

In the first season episode "Conundrum," actress Malin Akerman plays a fashion model who finds herself chained up with her feet in a bucket.

And it turns out to be a bucket 'o' snake! Even worse, the snake decides it wants to hug Malin...slowly. The fiend.

But have no fear, for Malin is rescued by the heroine (while she's in another room, which is pretty impressive), and the snake realizes the error of its ways and leaves.

Once the snake leaves, we can finally see that Malin was barefoot the whole time. This is the very same Malin Akerman who would later star in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, as Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II.