Mentions (10)
"In *The Twilight Zone* episodes from the '60s, the background characters will constantly touch and fiddle with their surroundings—people walking on the street will run their hands along the bricks of passing buildings, women will lean against other women's shopping carts, police officers will fiddle"
"It operates like an episode of The Twilight Zone: you take someone's central flaw, or the primary tension in their life, and expand it through a sci-fi conceit."
"As a '90s kid' we at least at some point saw some twilight zone, honeymooners, bewitched, etc. a thousand other shows that were on. The amount of 'what's twilight zone?' and not knowing what to say because it's not something I'd actually want to watch right now on Christmas Eve but also like goddamn"
"Imagine, if you will, an episode of The Twilight Zone where Rod Serling trips his balls off for real and you have a good idea of what this is like."
"I mean I knew it was huge and influential and all that but I can't believe how well this holds up. I love the aesthetics of it too. Great show, still got 4 seasons left too."
"Such a timeless show, can't believe we're coming on the heels of its 70th anniversary in a few years. I'm particularly fond of The Obsolete Man; it might be best written/acted one and the cinematography is top tier. Living Doll is def the scariest though, I had to get rid of my American Girl doll wh"
"I think the RS pick would probably be the one with the lady who was getting surgery because she was horribly disfigured only for the audience to discover everyone was pigpeople and the protagonist was a beautiful woman."
"I have very fond memories of being a kid and watching the new year's twilight zone marathon with my Dad after we got home from whatever family party we were at."
"Like this would've been twilight zone episode ages ago, just a machine that beams whatever you want but an insufferable mix of greed and game theory deflated all this faster than a bouncy castle with a heroin addiction."
"Silent Generation: The Organization Man, Mad Men-style drudgery, McCarthyism (paranoia), Beat poetry, and The Twilight Zone."