2019-05-31

The Twilight Zone - Blurryman

Good thing this season's over because after this there's no way I'm watching any more. Boring, irritating, incoherent, dumb. That could be a description of this episode or the series as a whole.

2019-05-24

The Twilight Zone - The Blue Scorpion

I have absolutely no idea what the point of this one was. You keep waiting for there to be a reason and there just isn't. It's kind of like The Comedian and Nightmare at 30,000 Feet - a supernatural force decides to fuck with people's lives and there's nothing they can do about it. The end.

2019-05-16

The Twilight Zone - Point of Origin

This show's writers seem to have a pathological fear of subtlety. Another episode that was a perfectly fine concept but slowed way down and explained in excruciating detail to try to make sure that absolutely nobody missed the point. Even before anything happened it was really obvious what the message as going to be and the entire rest of the episode was basically pointless. Even the twist was telegraphed a mile off.

2019-05-10

The Twilight Zone - Not All Men

This episode was basically fine. The only real problem with it is the same as with Replay - they just don't trust the audience at all. There's a simple message and they make sure to spell it out and repeat it just in case you didn't get it the first time.

2019-05-03

The Twilight Zone - Six Degrees of Freedom

This one was OK, I guess? It felt like an adaptation of a short story from the '60s though. Like, not a specific one that I remember reading, it just had that vibe of the old sci-fi short stories I used to read a lot of. The cast would probably have been different back then, but the story would have been identical. And if it had been written in the '60s it would be perfectly fine, but in a modern TV show it's weirdly outdated.