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Underrated episodes of The Twilight Zone
- Thread starter Schucky Ducky
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I'd say Black Mirror has been the first good modern successor to it.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim and The Rip Van Winkle Caper are two of my favorites.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Agreed. I need a new anthology series like this.
Not sure if serious. I have yet to watch AHS, but arent they season long arcs instead of self contained episodes?They do, it is called American Horror Story.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
A World of His Own is damn good. I particularly love the ending with Serling.
Black Mirror is the closest we'll get. The best anthology since TZ.
For posters above....AHS is not anthology.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Came in here to say this. It's a legit sweet story.
Schucky Ducky
Banned
I wouldn't be surprised to see CBS attempt another revival following the success that Black Mirror has seen. They would probably tie it to CBS All Access though.
They already tried it once in the 90s.
But I'm surprised they haven't gave it another go. Or Amazon buying out the rights to create their own take on it. It's a huge IP and still very influential.
Schucky Ducky
Banned
They actually had two revivals I think. The one in the early 2000's had a sequel to It's A Good Life with the original actors returning. I don't remember that being very good.
I do think a limited revival on some sort of streaming service could be really good, if they got the right talent to help make it. I know Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to make a Twilight Zone movie for years.
I hate to bring politics into this discussion but I thought about this episode after the events of Charlottesville. Why? Because the next week we had the U.S. total eclipse across the entire length of the United States.
When real life imitates art.
I enjoy the Twilight Zone episodes with feel good endings, like the one where the guy dies trying to save his dog and he and his dog go to the afterlife and the guy's like "you can come in but you can't bring your dog"
so he decides not to go in and then comes across another guy who says that the first place was actually Hell and of course you can bring your dog into Heaven and lets him in.
Yeah, it was hosted by Forest Whittaker. There were about 2 or 3 memorable episodes and one of those was a remake.
Black Mirror is great but it's more like twilight zone with an underlying message in each episode. Some Twilight Zone episodes did it and funny enough those are some of the all-time classics.
All the one hour episodes are underrated. Growing up, i didnt like them because that meamt i only got to see one episode instead of two that day.
One that never gets talked about is the episode with the astronauts that crashland on a wasteland and atart turning on each other; the ending is killer.
One that never gets talked about is the episode with the astronauts that crashland on a wasteland and atart turning on each other; the ending is killer.
Love this episode and almost every time I talk to someone about the twilight zone it turns out they've never seen the episode.
World SkiFree
Member
I love Mr. Denton on Doomsday. A story of redemption, definitely a feel good Twilight Zone. Great theme music, too. As a big fan of Westerns, it just hits the spot. Martin Landau makes for a fine heel, too.
Came here for this one.
These are my favorites but yeah Monsters is one of the better known ones I think. I've always thought it could be incredible as a full length feature.
Off topic but time enough at last has always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason
BKatastrophe
Member
I'd say they're rhe same in terms of quality. The big difference is BM is much more of a "realistic" take on modern and future scenarios regarding technology and its advancements.
TZ does just whatever the hell it wants.
Elegant Weapon
Member
The post makes me irrationally angry. That's one of the most popular episodes.
Dead Man's Shoes. Dead Man's Shoes is an underrated episode of the Twilight Zone.
BKatastrophe
Member
First episode I ever saw.
Went through a binge watch of this show last year for the first time, though there are some episodes I skipped over
A Passage for Trumpet is probably my favorite single episode that is overlooked and never talked about by most people. It's not a super remarkable episode but I still really liked it.
In terms of other episodes I also really liked I will mention: A Game of Pool, Walking Distance, A Nice Place To Visit, Back There, The Trade-Ins but not sure if I would call most of those underrated except for those last two I mentioned perhaps.
A Passage for Trumpet is probably my favorite single episode that is overlooked and never talked about by most people. It's not a super remarkable episode but I still really liked it.
In terms of other episodes I also really liked I will mention: A Game of Pool, Walking Distance, A Nice Place To Visit, Back There, The Trade-Ins but not sure if I would call most of those underrated except for those last two I mentioned perhaps.
I haven't watched enough yet to know what's under rated or overated. I ended up buying the box set a couple months back though have watched maybe 10 episodes so far ?
I feel like maybe "Escape Clause" is one that some might gloss over ? I don't know though. I've looked at an episode list just now and I have actually sat through 13 of them. I've enjoyed all of them to varying degrees.
I feel like maybe "Escape Clause" is one that some might gloss over ? I don't know though. I've looked at an episode list just now and I have actually sat through 13 of them. I've enjoyed all of them to varying degrees.
LinkSlayer64
Member
A Hundred Yards Over The Rim is what I was going to suggest! I enjoy Twilight Zone isn't always all horror, it sometimes just has interesting pulp fiction.
BKatastrophe
Member
That episode is so good
Schucky Ducky
Banned
I love all the episodes starring Jack Klugman.
Another great underrated one he stars in is "In Praise of Pip"