The Twilight Zone

1959

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EP16 The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Jan 17, 1964

EP33 The Brain Center at Whipple's May 15, 1964

9.1| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 02 October 1959 Ended
Producted By: CBS Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/
Synopsis

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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Benemon Rod Serling´s Twilight Zone is probably one of the best, acclaimed and most well known TV Shows of the old Days. Even after Decades it will fascinate and suprise Audiences. A shame if i wouldn´t give Twilight Zone a 10/10.
aa56 I enjoyed The Twilight Zone immensely when I was a kid, but seeing it as an adult, I was staggered by the lack of scientific and historical knowledge of the writers and dismayed by enough plot holes to drive a herd of buffaloes through. Here are some examples:An astronaut goes nuts just for being kept in a capsule for a few days.Asteroids are miniature earths.A space explorer crash-lands on a planet 4.3 light years from his origin, but he communicates in real time to his mission control.An old geezer goes nuts over a slot machine, and the casino workers just stand there watching until he pushes it over. Try that in a casino.The writer(s) are clueless as to when the U.S. entered WWI.Mannequins come to life for a month and live among real people. Where do they live? How do they get money? How did Marsha come to know she has a mother to buy a gift for?A young woman allegedly has serious surgery on her face, but when her head is unwrapped, there is not a sign of it.A man can stop time all over the earth with a stopwatch, yet he can move objects. Why don't aircraft fall from the sky? Does he stop Earth in its rotation and orbit? How about the entire solar system?Enough. One Step Beyond I believe was a better show. If one accepts the paranormal aspect, it is far more believable and better written.
Realrockerhalloween Rob Sterling was a genius who created an anthology series that's never gone out of style and remains timeless to this day. Being the first of it's kind it set the standard rules others would imitate for decades to come from a haunting opening, eerie music cues and a host to narrate each fascinating tale. Each episodes blends psychological fright with supernatural themes that makes you question rather it really happened or if they went through a real experience that changed their lives forever.Being set in the 60s worked in its favor as television was taking off with rules on decency and allowing for suspense instead of cheap gimmicks and following the fashion trends at the time. Surprisingly it never feels dull or dragging as it's very well written.Some of my favorites wouldn't be the over exposed classics in pop culture, but next stop Whillerbey, talking Tina and will the real Martian please stand up. For the simplicity, clever twists and charming caste. Only running for five seasons the show never felt like it humped the shark or was dragging along for the money and makes my love for this series very special. You can finally own all 165 episodes to relieve the terror, hot and hope each one offers. You'll guard it as a treasure.
Eric Stevenson What else can you say about one of the most loved shows ever created? It certainly lives up to its hype. The best episodes are probably the ones that end up with some ironic inversion or scenario reversal. It helps that Rod Serling has one of the best voices of any host you've ever heard. I realize the sheer number of horror anthology series there are right now. Well maybe not even anthology, but simply short horror stories. A lot of these might not even be considered horror, just mystery or thriller. Some of my favorite episodes include "Time Enough At Last", "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" and "The Obsolete Man". FCISOAE is great because the whole thing plays like some riddle you know you're eventually going to find the answer too. It's quite worth it.I realize that a lot of short horror stories make up pop culture or some of the most acclaimed and popular stories of their kind. I realize now that this show set the precedent for so many others, whether it be something for kids like "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" or internet memes like Creepypasta. These are all great in their own rights, but have never been able to top this. The imitations have been direct or indirect, but were never able to be better or even as good. It's interesting to just recognize some actors and actresses given how this song had so many. It's hard to review a show that was all about unrelated stories, but I've tried my best. As Roger Ebert said in his review of the movie, this is great because it puts ordinary people in strange situations they have no idea how to deal with.How would we react to these? There was always something different in every single episode. They tried to tackle as many themes as possible. It was even hard to determine if something was supposed to be happy, bittersweet, or a simple downer. Maybe it was more interesting to leave things open for interpretation. This series was truly timeless and shall live in our hearts and minds forever. ****