The Twilight Zone

[Powder]

Who here is a fan?

I've been watching 2-3 episodes a night recently, on Netflix. I've always had a vague desire to check it out, but it sure as hell took me a long time to get around to it. I'm really digging this series, even if so many of its concepts have since been milked to death & as such had predictable plot twists/endings. There's a lot of thematic variety & its casts serve to be a crazy revolving door of talent, making it fun to spot familiar faces. Some of the acting is over the top, befitting of such a show, but much of it is quite well done. A refreshing palette cleanser compared to so many of today's hacks.

What are some of your favorite episodes?

Of what I have seen so far, these stood out for me:

Walking Distance- A guy goes back in time to his childhood/hometown, bumping into his parents & former self.

The Man In The Bottle- A down on their luck couple who run an antique shop encounter a genie who grants 4 wishes with dire consequences.

Mirror Image- A woman keeps seeing her doppelganger while stranded in a bus station. She fears she's losing her mind.

A Penny For Your Thoughts- When a coin lands upright, it grants the banker who drops it the ability to read minds.

A Piano In The House- A man buys a piano whose music makes its listener spill their heart out, revealing their inner most thoughts & feelings.

A Kind Of Stop Watch- There exists a stop watch which can stop time, & it falls into the hands of a very high-strung individual.

Number Twelve Looks Just Like You- In a dystopian future, at age 18, you're forced to undergo cosmetic surgery that makes you look exactly like one of the 20 model appearances offered - but one girl refuses.

[Prowler]

I used to watch it with my grandmother on cable tv over a decade ago. I have very blurry memories of it, other than it being pretty old episodes. As in black and white ones. I remember an episode where a man ride the train to work and one day decides to stop in a train station he had no idea it existed. At the end of the episode he is found dead and people say "he jumped off the train".

[sdp]

I started watching The Twilight Zone three years ago, I marathon a season around October in honor of Halloween haha. It never looked appearling being an older show and in B&W but I've become a huge fan. Sure we've seen many of the plots recycled but it's nice to see the originals and in many cases these versions are far superior since it being old adds to the atmosphere and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Not all episodes are hits but a large amount of them are even if you can tell the twist and when you don't it's even better, I can only imagine how mind blowing this show was when it aired. I started S4 already and episodes are 50 mins long instead of so far I'm not liking this change. I bought a Twilight Zone figure not too long ago and love it.

[snake]

I've seen a couple off netflix. Very good show!

My favorite so far is "Terror at 20,000 feet"

[Spike Spiegel]

My favorite so far is "Terror at 20,000 feet"

https://38.media.tumblr.com/5798a39ab9495834abeeb6319952d5c5/tumblr_mhkmvfXes11qlzsjko1_400.gif

Someday I'll finally watch all the episodes. Those blu-ray sets are kind of expensive.

I also remember a rebooted version (after the 80s one) that came on in syndication around 2002 or so.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

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I remember that freaking me the **** out when I first saw it.

One of the episodes I remember watching was the one where the guy had a bomb shelter and wouldn't let anyone else use it when aliens invaded. Very tense; excellent episode.

[snake]

Flying for the first time at night, that episode kept creeping into my head. Luckily I was away from the window :lol:

[Wildcat]

Some episodes are great some are kinda dumb. I know the airplane one is very popular but my problem is the monster. Just look at that Gif...so silly. Even for the time. Im sure they could have done something other than stick a guy in fluffy suit with his face painted. Some kind of puppet would have worked much better.

[sdp]

I finished watching S4 of The Twilight Zone and it's ok. I had heard a lot about S4 like the majority saying it was terrible but a minority mentioning it was actually some of the best it had to offer so I gave it a fair chance. For the most part it's pretty standard Twilight Zone, some episodes are weaker and some are very strong and some even a bit recycled but my problem with the season is the 50 minute long episodes are just too long. I don't know if they were originally 25 min episodes that got extended when the show changed to an hour or if the writers just didn't know how to handle the extra time. You can pretty much cut 15 minutes out of every episode and have them 35 mins without much trouble since there are many scenes that repeat the same information or things that have no point in general and make episodes drag a bit, hell maybe they could even be cut down to their regular 25 min episodes.

While the length is a problem they're still TZ episodes so you know what to expect and it does have some strong episodes that are up there with the best to be forgotten.

[ToTheNines]

My all-time favorite episode is "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". The clown is the creepiest ever, and the ballerina is beautiful. I've been in love with her ever since I was a kid.

[Candy Kappa]

I enjoy The Twilight Zone quite a bit. The Encounter is a fave of mine. And Time Enough At Last, just on how unusually cruel and mean-minded that episode was.

[Wildcat]

Anyone else prefer Tales from the Dark Side?

That series was better imo. It was creepier but I know that wasn't always the point with Twilight Zone. The production quality was better too but I'm not holding that against TZ. It was just nice to have better effects since it was in the 80s.

Some of the hour long TZs hosted by Forest Whitaker were cool too.

[Andrew NDB]

Seems like the new Twilight Zone is all about SJW stuff, "systemic racism," prejudice and the like. And the remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" isn't about a gremlin on the wings, but instead a white male dealing with his own racism on a plane.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2019/04/01/2019-politics-and-profanity-enter-twilight-zone-revival

Yeesh. That's too bad, I was looking forward to this.

[ProphetofGanja]

Huge Twilight Zone fan, always enjoyed it growing up watching with my uncle who was big into old timey shows and movies.

I saw an episode of the new reboot and I was sadly a little disappointed. It was pretty weak. The theme wasn't focused enough and it dragged on a bit, but the main thing that I noticed was the music. In the original show the music really helped set the ambiance, it was always suitably tense. The music in the reboot just felt really watered-down

[drgon78]

Well at least we still have the original series.

[Jester]

Liked the original series. To Serve Man will always be a favorite of mine. Also love the one with Talking Tina....and of course the ones with Bill Mumy, Burgess Meredith, and The Shat.

Saw the 1st 2 of the remake. The premise of the first was interesting but the execution wasn't great, and it was too long. The 2nd was too predictable and I think it could have had a better ending.

Edit: I also watched through Night Gallery, decent show, but not as good as Twilight Zone. The anthology nature was kinda cool though. Need to watch Tales From the Dark Side and Tales From the Crypt. Love a good sci-fi/horror anthology. Watched a few episode of one based on the works of Roald Dahl...but could never get into it. Did like Black Mirror, though it gets a bit bleak.

[drgon78]

Yeah always liked Talking Tina, Five Characters in search for an Exit, Terror at 20,000 feet, Man in the Bottle, A Kind of a Stop Watch, and many more.

[Andrew NDB]

Just watched the first episode of the new show. Yeah, this is TV for liberals. First episode is about a comedian who just goes on stage to talk about gun control and the how the 2nd amendment is dumb and ranting about Trump... but how doing actual comedy that isn't ranting about such gives him success but sucks away his soul.

[Jester]

That's a...way...of looking at it, I guess.

EDIT: Episode 3 is gonna make your head explode.

[Andrew NDB]

I've heard some people say season 2 of the new show isn't as bad and woke as the first. Can anyone confirm?

[Sumac]

I've watched very few episodes of new Twilight Zone.
I've seen a lot of episodes of Outer Limits though.

[sdp]

I'm watching the 2019 show right now, almost finished with season 2, show is a mixed bag. I want to love it but it has flaws. Like with the original show episodes that are longer than 30 mins always feel like they drag and that they could easily cut 10-15 mins from those episodes, luckily at least half of the show is only 30 mins.

The new narrator does an excellent show, the show seems a little too much influenced by dark mirror which I don't like and wish it took more ideas from the original tone of the show. It definitely shows more violence than previous twilight zone shows and I don't love that.

As far as SJW stuff, it's definitely there, especially the first season but it's usually a "I'm gay" which doesn't feel natural but whatever doesn't mess the episode up. Except for 3 episodes "Not All Men", "Replay" and "Point of origin" which go overboard with the SJW message, the sad thing is that they're excellent episodes with great morals but they go overboard where it reaches Captain Planet level of preachyness when they did a great job with the episode if it had only been more subtle like the original show, you didn't have them explaining in the end "oh it's because nuclear war is bad", "oh it's because we don't need to judge others" you don't need someone explicitly telling you the moral when it's perfectly understood, a shame as I said they're good episodes.

Blurryman the final episode of season 1 actually pokes fun of the show being overly preachy and the episode is a bit meta but I think they pulled it off. The new Nightmare at 20,000 feet is really good, wish it didn't have the last twist ending since it wasn't a strong one but solid nothing SJW about it. Favorite episode so far is the blue scorpion. Second season so far is better than the first in most aspects.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, I want to hear more about season 2. Supposedly it is better... but boy, did those first few season 1 eps scare me away.

[sdp]

Didn't get back to finish season 2 until recently, overall season 2 is definitely much better than the first, though I guess the first season did have better episodes, at least S2 is more consistent than S1. All of the SJW is mostly gone in the second season, unless you're afraid of POC being protagonists in a few episodes, heck they even poke fun at woke culture in one episode The finale is a sequel to one of the episodes of the original series which is cool but it's a mixed bag sadly, the S1 finale was a far better tribute to the show itself and episode. I think the show had finally reached. I recommend it, it feels like Twilight Zone most of the time, it's just not groundbreaking. For what it's worth I enjoyed it more than Black Mirror but I never really liked Black Mirror ever.

I'm in the mood for more Twilight Zone, how are the 2002 and 1985 reboots?
I've never seen the movie either, only all of the original show

[oldmanwinters]

I think the 89s series is worth owning on dvd if for no other reason than all the big name folks who featured in various eps like Bruce Willis. I never saw the 2002 show.

[Andrew NDB]

Jeeze, adding insult to injury, Paramount+ is removing the newest Twilight Zone from its library. You can watch it literally nowhere now:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3749570/paramount-has-removed-the-twilight-zone-reboot-from-its-streaming-service/

[Wildcat]

They’ve been showing them on SyFy and they’re on DVD.

I saw a few episodes when I had the Paramount+ trial. Thought the airplane episode was an awesome reimagining of Nightmare at 20,000 feet. The one with the wife waiting for an egg was interesting. The squid episode was also cool.

So people here know I don’t mind “PC/Woke” stuff but the episode Replay was just ridiculous. It’s one of the rare times it actually bothered me.

That the police would keep hunting the mother and son to other places. I get it was a metaphor but it made absolutely no sense from the cops standpoint. You would not do that no matter how racist you are. It became comical.

It started so great too. I kept thinking there was gonna be a twist that the cop was trying to warn them about something or that the mother actually did something wrong and wanted to help the son.

I’d like to see the others but haven’t been able to keep up with them on TV.

[HotJuicyBurgers]

Jeeze, adding insult to injury, Paramount+ is removing the newest Twilight Zone from its library. You can watch it literally nowhere now:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3749570/paramount-has-removed-the-twilight-zone-reboot-from-its-streaming-service/

I hate when companies do this ****. So dumb. Yar har and all that as they say.