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Twilight Zone 2019
May 16 2019 09:18PM more by sherkahn
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I miss Rod Serling’s subtlety that treated the viewer with respect and intelligence, instead of this latest incarnation of the serious that has loose writing and compensates by slamming ideas down the throat kf the viewer.

Thank god for Black Mirror, that is getting it right.
      
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Raspberry8951
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May 16 2019 11:44PM     link to this

The problem with the Re-make of the Twilight Zone is that it has as much subtlety and allegory compared to direct smack to the back of the head with a baseball bat.

The old Twilight Zone tried to make its point with subtlety through the use of allegory.

The new Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone dumbs down expectations. Instead of assuming the audience is somewhat intelligent and can follow along with hints and clues presented by the screenwriters when it comes to telling theme or parable of the episode. The new twilight zone just smacks you on the back of the head with the plot of the episode.

The Screenwriters just assumes that the large majority of its the audience have self lobotomized through a steady consumption of American Idol, America's Got Talent, and Survivor.

In the age of Trump who can blame them.
lachineseguy
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May 17 2019 09:24AM     link to this

old ones were 30 min long and the new ones are unnecessarily 60 min long
MUNK
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May 17 2019 09:26AM     link to this

Old ones didn’t have black people in them very often

Which is odd cause they were in black and white
notsofast
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May 17 2019 09:27AM     link to this

Black Mirror is pretty good
Raspberry8951
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May 17 2019 10:08AM     link to this

Dont you have an appointment to see your Cardiologist or is it your oncologist today 69 degrees, I mean Jazz-51, I mean Ragtime 1910?
Facephuckker
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May 17 2019 10:50AM     link to this

Never seen a remake that holds a candle to the original
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teeitup
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May 17 2019 11:04AM     link to this

Munk, all the black people on the shows were in white so you couldn't tell. Rod wasn't prejudiced.
Raspberry8951
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May 17 2019 11:26AM     link to this

Rod Serling wrote the Screenplay to the first Planet Of The Apes.
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