The Twilight Zone streaming series from Jordan Peele

[mdmost 43851]

Guess I'll be purchasing CBS All-Access

 

[henrygandorf 29221]

in like a dirty shirt.

[Goo Punch 4275]

welp, yeah; i'm in. 

[Lhorn 5080]

In!  Love the Twilight Zone, Night Gallery 

[MillerEP 30838]

First episode was alright. It's neat to see modern interpretations of the classics.

[henrygandorf 29221]

 i liked the pilot ok.  decent premise.  i don't like kumail nanjiani at all, so that didn't help.

the second episode sounds better, based on the brief description on imdb. 

[Junior Miller 1502]

Didn't care much for the reimagining of nightmare at 20,000 feet. The idea was pretty good to flip the story and themes on their heads, but the feelings of isolation and hopelessness were completely gone and they are what made the original work. 

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This one also had some crazy plot holes that were pretty stupid. 1) why didn't he try to play the supernatural, prophetic podcast for anyone else including flight attendants, an air marshall, and a co-pilot? Why just the one guy sitting next to him at the beginning who doesn't want to share headphones? 

2) The secret pass code to enter the cockpit was really just the flight number? If the airline is that stupid they deserved to get taken over. 

3) The ending completely ruined it. In the end everyone survived the plane crash just to kill the guy who caused the panic? A crash that completely destroyed the plane and broke it into pieces? No one would survive that let alone everyone. Should have ended it with the plane nose diving to Sinatra. 

 

 

I'm sure it will get better. 

[Vito Andolini 9431]

Looks like we have two, lightly used threads, so I’ll go with this one.

Signed up this week for the free week as I evaluate my cord cutting options (CBS doesn’t play well with others [Hulu] and my antenna reception is non-existent), so I’m sampling the show.

I’m three episodes in, and thought “The Comedian” was ok. Liked the premise, but it’s weird the girlfriend... who hated him later in the episode...  returned to the club and laughed uproariously at his bits. A few other issues as well, but a promising debut.

”30,000” was tighter, but yeah, I agree with an earlier comment that the irony would have been better served with the journalist simply realizing his PTSD/Podcast fueled paranoia led to “This guy fucks” guy taking over the plane and flying it into the ocean... and ending it there.

The third episode, “Replay,” was just hard to watch. A mother and son relentlessly terrorized by a racist asshole cop, no matter how many times they replay the moment(s) was a sledgehammer take on our times. 

I’ve started “A Traveler,”  with Greg Kinnear and a hot Alaskan chick playing cops. I assume the surprise visitor is some form of the devil, we’ll see.