I was immediately intrigued by this show when I first saw it on TV somewhere. Memory escapes me. Caught it on the TV at work in recent years.
I had been eyeballing it on Netflix for a while now, loving that intro video with the eerie music that plays if you hover over it. After seeing that each episode is just 25 minutes, I dived in. That first episode is awesome. I love that it's all in HD, despite being B&W.
I also really think that scene of him running into the glass and breaking the fourth wall so to speak is just the best! Tricky how they framed that shot to not show the sill of the window until he smashes into it, then the camera's eye changes to show the busted sill. It's just awesome, mostly because I've only ever seen characters running out of the frame or toward the camera toward an exit door and then seeing the film cut to the next scene/location. It's very clever! I put the link below to the clip, but you can't see the rest of the scene.
Interesting how they were talking up the
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Thought he was maybe a soldier with a brain injury or amnesia, turns out he was part of a moon-travel experiment to assess damage of space travel to the human body.
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a man bickering with the reaper about how he's not ready to die yet, but upon hearing someone else has to take his spot instead, he makes the selfless choice.
I just really love these kinds of shows that make you think and question your perception/how society perceives things. I've seen one other episode almost in its entirety about the people that wear the masks over their faces. Oh, and the plane episode with the monsters. Very interesting the social commentary and who knows what else the Emmy-winning writing team was going for here. I'm assuming there'll be some cold war/nuclear fear episodes too.
Any recommendations for really good episodes?
tl;dr: The Twilight Zone is a neat show! Do you agree? Any favorite episodes?
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