# Twilight Zone (2019) Season 1 First 2 episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935 "2019-04-02T18:02:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/22 "2019-04-26T10:27:58Z")
Gee, I wonder who episode 5 was all about? That episode was both hilarious and horrifying at the same time. Best episode so far in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/23 "2019-04-26T18:07:56Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Gee, I wonder who episode 5 was all about? > That episode was both hilarious and horrifying at the same time. > > Best episode so far in my opinion. Did you enjoy it because you believe that it accurately portrays Trump? It’s not a gotcha question. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/24 "2019-04-26T18:32:50Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Did you enjoy it because you believe that it accurately portrays Trump? It’s not a gotcha question. I think it’s safe to say one’s political affiliation will have an effect on their opinion of this episode. That said, I wasn’t even thinking about Trump until the kid started acting like a dick. That’s when I was like: “Oh, now I get it.” But to answer your question, yes I thought there were some well crafted analogies in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/25 "2019-04-27T01:52:55Z")
Hahaha. That episode was a great analogy. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/26 "2019-04-27T05:46:27Z")
I thought it was a fun episode. Ham fisted for sure but still clever enough. It felt like it could have been longer, like movie length, to make it more subtle. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/27 "2019-04-29T15:06:55Z")
I watched ep3 and somehow, stupidly didn’t realize the 4th and 5th are available yet :smack: I thought it was an intriguing premise but as others have said, very heavy handed. The social commentary just about obliterated the Zoniness. The closing narration is, in part, “Nina Harrison found that only by embracing her past could she protect her son’s future. And it was love, not magic, that kept evil at bay” That is way too corny for me and doesn’t really even make sense. It’s as they wanted to tell two different stories and weren’t particularly concerned how to make them mesh. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/28 "2019-05-06T00:50:56Z")
Watched the first two the other day. Didn’t care for them, so I haven’t seen any of the others yet. I liked the intro, but I still prefer either the one from the original series with the spinning door or the one from the 80s with the Grateful Dead music. The episode about the comedian left me cold. It might’ve worked for a half-hour episode, but this one just dragged on and on. Not sure how I feel about… what was the term? _Lick my pussy_? That just seemed to be trying too hard to be edgy. I appreciate the riffing on _Nightmare at 20,000 Feet_, but the new episode wasn’t all that great. The social commentary was too in-your-face, and I hated the ending. It was pointless and ridiculous. Immediately after watching it, we watched the Shatner original. Again, I appreciate all the little threads from the original they wove into the new one–and there were a lot–but I just didn’t like _30,000 Feet_. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/29 "2019-05-06T16:20:18Z")
I watched the remaining episodes and I wish I could say I loved them; I very very much wanted to. TZ is one of my all time favorite series and with JP behind it, I figured it couldn’t go wrong. Maybe(probably) my expectations were too high. I was hoping for that chilling, TZ irony and these stories don’t seem to have that. Am I missing something? I get that the one with the 12 year old running for president was a spoof of Trump and also a tribute to the cornfield kid, but was there supposed to be a moral or twist. A man literally destroys himself because of his self serving course of action. And. . .? _Six Degrees of Freedom_completely lost me. I didn’t like any of the characters, too much time was spent on the technical NASA speak and in the end I really had no idea what the point was. Almost redeemed by the use the Interrupters’ _Family_. _The Traveller_was interesting to watch. It looked like it was going somewhere and then “pffffft”. If anyone would care to explain any of the episodes or point out what I missed, I’m wide open. If more eps are made, I’ll watch but I’ll try to keep my expectations reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/30 "2019-05-10T09:51:48Z")
Just watched episode 7. I enjoyed it. Definitely the darkest episode yet. But man oh man, this episode is going piss some people off. I’m afraid Mr. Peele may have overplayed his hand. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/31 "2019-05-11T10:19:11Z")
If it wasn’t the Twilight Zone, I would give up. Episode 6 was passable, but very below average TZ fare. Episode 7 was an absolute abortion. Jordan Peele does not want the Twilight Zone. He wants to preach to people for an hour. Of all of his social commentary, Episode 7 was the worst: So the meteors did nothing. They were placebos that gave men the excuse to be their normal violent selves. So what started it? Meteors are falling so I’ll become violent? And if it was a placebo, what caused the spider veins and the bloodshot eyes? I was looking forward to this series and paid for CBS All-Access just to watch it. What a horrendous disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/32 "2019-05-11T10:25:30Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > _Six Degrees of Freedom_completely lost me. I didn’t like any of the characters, too much time was spent on the technical NASA speak and in the end I really had no idea what the point was. Almost redeemed by the use the Interrupters’ _Family_. The best and most original premise for a TZ episode of the series. But then we get 35 minutes of interpersonal drama followed by the payoff which was decent, not the most original, but at least something. However: I wasn’t clear if this was real life. It was clear that aliens were watching and now that these astronauts made the decision to go to Mars, they would make contact. But it looked like they had been watching several simulations and I’m not sure if the characters we saw were all simulations. And now make contact? Which who? The surviving 4 people on Mars who will soon die? I didn’t really tie in the real meaning of the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/33 "2019-05-12T06:59:26Z")
I wonder if they’ll attempt a remake of “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” except somehow make it even more obvious than the 2002 reboot one where it was terrorists not aliens that were supposedly invading the town. Like it’s going to be about white guys who wear red hats who immediately start murdering their minority neighbors when they hear immigrants are secretly in the town. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/34 "2019-05-16T18:24:47Z")
Oh boy. Episode 7: Point of Origin Another political hack job and not even a good one. Sure, we refer to people passing through a portal from another dimension as a “caravan.” And the hit jobs are not even believable. Imagine if you married a woman and found out she illegally immigrated to the United States as a 5 year old with her parents. You shun her and let the authorities take her? And what is up with the Ice Cream Truck in winter? The ending was given away in the first three minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/35 "2019-05-16T18:36:04Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Oh boy. Episode 7: Point of Origin > > Another political hack job and not even a good one. Sure, we refer to people passing through a portal from another dimension as a “caravan.” And the hit jobs are not even believable. > Imagine if you married a woman and found out she illegally immigrated to the United States as a 5 year old with her parents. You shun her and let the authorities take her? And what is up with the Ice Cream Truck in winter? The ending was given away in the first three minutes. That’s episode 8 for anybody thinking about clicking the spoiler. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/36 "2019-05-22T21:40:21Z")
Well, Episode 9 on tomorrow night. I’ll watch it and then boycott the last episode of the season. Just kidding. It’s the Zone. I’ll watch both episodes and come here and bitch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/37 "2019-05-24T05:12:44Z")
I would post a spoiler box, but I have no idea what Episode 9 was about. It started out great, no political commentary, good TZ fare, but I don’t understand what the moral was to be learned, what he learned, and the point of the ending. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/38 "2019-05-25T20:38:29Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I would post a spoiler box, but I have no idea what Episode 9 was about. It started out great, no political commentary, good TZ fare, but I don’t understand what the moral was to be learned, what he learned, and the point of the ending. Ok good, glad it wasn’t just me. It ended and I was thoroughly confused. Always like to see Chris O’Dowd though, so it had that. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/39 "2019-05-25T20:43:51Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Rod Serling could do it without beating you over the head with it. Agreed. I watched that episode (#3) last night, and that’ll be the last of the new series I see. So, of the three episodes I’ve seen, I give the new _Twilight Zone_ 1-1/2 stars. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/40 "2019-05-27T19:03:10Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Ok good, glad it wasn’t just me. It ended and I was thoroughly confused. > > Always like to see Chris O’Dowd though, so it had that. This was the closing narration: “Human beings have a funny way of treating things like people. But today, they’ll learn that as more as objects are valued more that lives, tragedy will be forever manufactured here in the Twilight Zone.” I would put it in a spoiler box, but it had nothing at all to do with anything in the entire episode. At no time did Chris O’Dowd have any object that he valued or treated like a person. He expressly turned down huge sums of money for the gun, and threw it in the lake. Using it made his life better by all accounts. To the extent that he started shooting the gun and becoming obsessed with it was because the gun clearly had supernatural qualities, not from some obsession with guns. The fact that everyone seemed to be named Jeff, even a dog, was something that was not explored at all. Yes, he probably should have actually sold the gun instead of throwing it in the lake where a kid could find it, but the closing narration doesn’t make sense. The tragedy (assuming that one of the kids gets shot) was not due to his valuation of the gun or worship of it, it was because he tried to rid himself of it (for some unknown reason since all of his interactions with it were positive). I’m just scratching my head over everything about the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935/41 "2019-06-05T02:25:22Z")
Finally caught up with the season. Really uneven. The best episode was probably the Immigration one but even that one was not great. And the final episode? I get what it was trying to do (be a love letter to the original) but it missed the mark. Hopefully next season will improve. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-2019-season-1-first-2-episodes/831935.md?page=3)