The run time of the new one doesn't help. Season 4 of the original showed why anything more than 25 minutes just doesn't work. Yes, there is occassionally one that does like Her Pilgrim Soul in the 80s version and Printer's Devil for Season 4, but those are a rarity.
I am glad someone else thought the 2019 series was BORING. Thank You! Rod SERLING The original show had a season of an hour. People didn't like that season
To be fair, there are so many people that think it’s Sterling that you have about a 50/50 chance of hearing it when someone talks about him. Its a Mandela effect kinda thing, except this is grounded in the fact that it’s a single letter difference and Sterling is a preexisting word
Another thing about the original series is that there are episodes that are not scary or suspenseful at all, but are still parables. Like ‘One for the Angels’ or ‘Walking Distance’. The original series was truly an anthology because each episode could be completely different, but still feel connected.
(Spoilers for episodes) Another problem I had was that things were just happening, and if you ask yourself "Why? This doesn't make much sense, and if I question it, it just feels like incompetence of the characters, even though they're portrayed as smart (like the black mom in episode 3), or incompetence on Peele's side", the show is just like "It just happens, don't think about it, don't question it", and, like, the best part about The Twilight Zone has always been the questioning part. But in Peele's show, I was mostly just bored, and when I did question things and have my own theories on what's going on, the "twist" is just so lame and boring. If there even is one. Like "Oh, this racist white cop is specifically targeting this black woman and her son, but was totally fine with the black woman who served him food in the diner, and even complimented her and her cooking a lot? And he even shows up anywhere they go, almost magically? I feel like there's something more to this episode than just a camcorder than can rewind time! Maybe mom has a secret or something? After all, they used this camcorder before as well for decades (it's her dad's), and only suddenly it started rewinding time, so there must be something going on!", and then you realize "Oh, there's nothing? The guy is just racist, and not magical? He wasn't racist towards the black lady who made and served him food because "reasons"? He just magically showed up because the plot demanded? Mom didn't use the camcorder properly whatsoever to cause unnecessary tension? And they give a mini-Martin Luther King speech at the end to stand up to a line of *white* racist cops? Okay...I thought there was something more to it." Or "Oh, astronauts get to go to Mars, but know that their home planet may be doomed? Cool, I can't wait to see them try to make their life work on Mars! Or at least to see more of space, cause space is the coolest part of space, and any space-related story!...Oh, we won't get to see them get to Mars, except at the end? And we don't get to see space almost at all? Even through the windows? Whole episode is on the ship, and practically NOTHING happens while on there? One guy, Pierson, only assumes it's all fake, a stress test, and tries to go out the airlock? So it's not a stress test, and they get to Mars? But it still zooms out to a dark room with Pierson, and aliens (who we don't see, cause that would require them spending money) just say how they passed the "test", making you think that it was a simulation because they did get Pierson (somehow, when he opened the lock, we saw the Sun, and for some reason the air wasn't being sucked out of the room, and he had like 10 seconds of being absolutely okay, despite a completely open airlock, and staring at the sun, before the solar flare had to kill him, presumably? Peele doesn't understand space xd), meaning that it may have been them, and not a sun, Idk? But if that's the case, and it was a simulation, then those astronauts never actually got to Mars, though? And their home was not ruined? But that would imply that none of that happened, and that they didn't go through an actual destruction of their home, and that they're not on Mars? But how is the simulation conducted? Did they abduct those astronauts, and force them through this? The episode doesn't explain that. It doesn't explain anything. The entire alien part was so absolutely fucking random and dumb, and the aliens are like "They passed the test, they may be worth saving"...so does that imply that the world is okay, and that it's on the brink of destruction? I'm just fucking confused. It's convoluted and dumb. And boring because we don't get to see space, we barely get to see Mars, or let alone them trying to make living on Mars work, and mostly we get to see people in a spaceship, mostly bickering about things that are non-issue. Like, Takamura Rei (a completely African American looking woman, like, she doesn't even look half Japanese, so this name either implies she's just a weeb who changed her name, or that one of her parents is Japanese, but she got no Japanese traits from that parent, tho the former theory is funnier, and not out of the equation) makes a huge problem out of them...choosing to blast off towards Mars. I repeat, she was angry, and said that they didn't care about her or her life, because of that decision. When making such a decision is the very showcase of them caring. Otherwise, she would've died. They went over that. In fact, they spent 5-10 minutes discussing whether they should leave, when they've heard that an ICBM missile is headed towards their near vicinity. I swear, Peele had solid stuff. "Get Out" and "Nope" were great movies. I haven't watched "Us", but didn't hear good things about it. But it's like the dude had a stroke after making those movies, and just decided like he can't write characters properly. The entire show, people just "do" things that make no sense for any normal person to do, or say stuff that I'm like "Normal people don't talk like that lol", often without any explanation, probably because it's not a movie's length where those characters could be better explored. He tackles a TV Show the way he'd tackle a movie, for every episode. And it does NOT help. I don't think I've had a single really likable character that I wanted to root for in the first season. (didn't get to second season yet) They all have their problems, and so often he tries to make the issue of racism, or refugees, or white people = bad, or men = bad, and all such issues in the episodes, and makes those things the main deal of the episode, and all the weirdness of The Twilight Zone is just absolutely secondary to it. In the third episode, I genuinely forget that they have the rewinding camcorder half the time, because of either how little emphasis is put into it, or how badly it's used. The mom even uses it for Lotto, not to win it, but to have a sweet moment with her son (Which, don't get me, was VERY sweet, but for fuck's sake, might as well use it to ACTUALLY win Lotto, and never have problems with money ever again, you or your son, or his future daughter), like, she doesn't even THINK about using it for winning Lotto, and then deciding not to. When any normal person would be like "Well, might as well. It's not an objectively bad thing to do, so why not? If anything, it's objectively good, as it helps me, my family and their future, and no one really suffers from it." Like, Adam "Fucking" Sandler used his remote in Click better than she did. I was only ever pissed that he decided to not take it on his second chance at the end of the movie, and I was like "Bruh, the only downside to it was using the fast forward option, so just don't use that!!!". Idk, this shit just makes me feel like Peele should avoid making shows, and stick to movies, where he can flesh things out a lot more. Which is odd, since he should be way more used to making UA-cam skits and shorts. (which half the time feel like they had more budget than this show, with how little they were showing of the abnormal, honestly) And it sucks, cause both "Get Out" and "Nope" had a dope idea and/or premise. And executed it SO WELL. So going into this show, I was like "Well, after those movies, I feel like Peele has some awesome horror-esque ideas cooking in his good ol' noggin'!", but no, the premises were either boring (camcorder that rewinds time), dumb (meteor makes men angy), or just secondary to a preachy subject (the camcorder episode, and the refugee episode, off the top of my head).
Honestly if the show had the creativity of more complex themes i think it’d be pretty good esp with their budget, like if they rlly wanna shock people you’re gonna have to do better than “don’t be mean to immigrants” sry :/
There is another serious difference between this TZ and the original series: Serling was political, but not partisan. He addressed McCarthyism with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," but he was just as quick to address Marxism with "The Mirror" and "The Obsolete Man" (which references Stalin). Serling knew that ANY extreme of any sort, regardless of left or right on the political spectrum, could be dangerous. (BTW, Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series handled this the same way as well) The 2019 TZ fails in this regard. The politics are almost exclusively favorable to leftist ideas. "Not all Men" is basically a blind exercise in Misandry, and something Serling would not have approved of because of its "one-sidedness." This is beyond social commentary; it's flat out Riefenstahl-esque propaganda.
If your takeaway is "this sci-fi should have spent more time criticizing both sides" and not "Is this interesting?" I don't think we're going to agree about what a good TZ is, unless it's an accident.
When this version of the Twilight zone first came out I've never seen an episode of the original and after seeing rewind I thought the entirety of the Twilight Zone was another piece of overhyped fiction. I then watched a bit of the original... and then the entire run of the original quickly becoming one of my all time favourite shows. I feel you have forgotten a few key things as to why 2019 failed over the old version with the main thing not being preach fatigue but rather what is being talked about, how its being talked about and what issues they were tackling. The original Twilight Zone rarely tackled issues of the day and rather issues of people like addiction, difficult choices, dreams, death, and our fellow man and used a tool that's lost to our contemporary storytellers: Nuance. More often than not the reason why the twists of the old twilight zone episodes worked was because the story up to that point was nuanced enough that it functioned as a twist even if the twist is there being no twist at all. One of my favorite episodes of the original run was the out-dated man and the reason for this was simply that the twist was that it showed that one way or another a future like that is going to suck for everyone and what helped it was the characters themselves being multilayered and entertaining. in the 2019 twilight zone the characters and especially the threats they were facing was bland, unoriginal, and worst of all when it comes to something as timeless as the twilight zone, dated. I can't think of a better example of this than the episode rewind. In the episode a mother finds her cam corder has the ability to rewind time and everytime she does this the cop in the story behaves a little more suspiciously. Why is this? Is it because the message is about time and how no matter how much we want events to change the thing we should really be worried about is making sure its spent with our loved ones? Is it because the cop was actually a multi-dimensional ranger after the device for making too many new universes playing with the idea of the multiverse and how important our choices are? nope he's just a racist cop and all it took was a speech to get him to back off despite being shown in the episode to essentially be a terminator beforehand. The new twilight zone falls into a new common pitfall of new writers that think that there is no nuance to any issue and that the only issue that can be talked about are the ones that show tribe A being mean to tribe B giving it the complexity of a preschool book and all the nuance of a brick through a window with the message vandalism is bad written on it. There are issues that can universally effect people no matter race, gender, or statice. These are the issues that should have been focused on. One other thing you are incorrect with the idea that a message being too subtle is the reason why people won't change their minds, its the opposite. If you treat a person who disagrees with you on ANY topic like an idiot and/or inherently evil they aren't going to listen
These are my feelings too. The original Twilight Zone was not subtle in its political and social statements, but 2019 Twilight Zone was so over-the-top with its messages that Jordan Peele may as well as just filmed a political talk-show.
I haven't watched it, but my mother and I were both big fans ofthe original twilight zone run. She was then pretty excited for the most recent iteration but she said it didn't understand the point of Twilight Zone and was too reliant on gore or blatant symbols of shock or fear. It wasn't subtle or thoughtful enough, if I remember her correctly.
Why didn't they make it in black and white? I always felt like the visuals of the original add to the feeling of being in a strange alternate universe.
While I agree that black n white creates a mood in the original, I think colour is considered a given for today's audience who may be put off by black n white visuals. I think that's one of the reasons why not more people today watch the original TZ, and other black n white shows/movies for that matter - some of the audience today just probably don't enjoy the aesthetic and think it looks "outdated" and therefore don't become interested.
So basically you take a classic Tom and Jerry short, stretch it to 1 hour length and instead of adding new gags to fill the length of the episode you put in exposition to give context to why each of the gags are supposed to be funny.
Great video! I was trying to figure out why the new TZ is so underwhelming, and I think you hit the nail on the head. Honestly, I think Black Mirror is a better TZ reboot than the actual one.
You obviously don't get how television works if it wasn't for TV shows like the Twilight Zone we wouldn't have TV shows like black mirror so your taste has no originality nor taste
Also, remember how much more literate the original generation, writers and viewers, were. Our artifacts are almost entirely cinematic, not verbal, and so only very partially based on the continuous inner dialog of language.
@deathmetal271 What Rod Serling did in the original TZ is he had “aliens say things politicians couldn’t”, and he hid it. The extremely fractured Jordan Peele version told stories containing a lot of political and societal messages; basically shouting them at you, but missing the science fiction look. It can be compared to an experienced, make up artist trying to reach the achievements of James whale, Make up man who did Frankenstein in 1933. This is one reason why the reboot failed and I’m actually glad it failed and is gone forever
Yep. I'm tired of having blatant, one sided politics in our media. It's not approached in an interesting or welcoming manner either, it's just a method used to shame the average person.
First, the episodes were too long. There's a reason why only the 4th season of the original had hour long episodes. Second. all of the episodes were too preachy. The original TZ had messages but was thought provoking. Serling clashed constantly with censors but delivered the message.
If by woke you mean the opposite of the 2019 version, yeah. The 2019 version is nothing but collectivist identity politics that would probably make Rod Serling puke. [See: The Obsolete Man] The guy was an individualist and it shows in his writing. You can see it in the subjects he lists in the video (prejudice, conformity, intolerance, censorship); they're all symptoms of collectivist ideologies. That's the real reason the 2019 version sucks. It's soulless ideological drivel.
@@dreamsof3dspace555 I'm not sure collectivist is an accurate or helpful description. This video discusses it exceptionally well; Twilight zone 2019 primary problem is the shallow, reductive nature of the parables and the length of episode.
The show can end up creating more division to be hones. If im racist and on the tv i see a 1 hour show about how racists are pieces of trash with not a single good quality, please tell me in what party im going to end up with. The people that think im trash or other racists that accept me. You need to be extremly inteligent to create an argument that draws conversation instead of atacking the other band.
Mostly it’s the writing. The 1960 episodes were written by people that had actually lived lives during very hard times, WWII, the Great Depression. The 2019 episodes are written by young college educated people that have lived easy lives and get all their knowledge from social media. Hence the shallowness.
I really hope more wisened and insightful people start flooding the arts with more good quality work. I'm tired of all the trite crappy shallow stuff. Feels like I have to avoid half of what comes out just to not waste my time on media that does nothing positive for my mind, heart, and soul. I want more stuff like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune, heck even Poor Things even though that film has some annoyingly on the nose ideological pushes. I want more music that pushes boundaries like Animal Collective and Oneohtrix Point Never. I want more shows like Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, The Wire, etc. I want more deep art that I can revisit a dozen times and still pick up on more details and intricacies that I never noticed before. As an artist myself I strive to create art like this myself as well. And I try to help keep my artist friends motivated and boost morale to do the same.
He is!!!😍 I've always thought that, since I was much younger. Plus, he's intelligent, obviously creative, and extremely articulate - traits that I find extremely attractive!👍
9:55 it’s not that I don’t understand, it mainly an issue considering the wars that brought in refugees to Europe and US which shows how deteriorating and decayed these open border ideas are. I’m Hispanic but even I know the American system is benefited with lies and exploitation because of communities who are willing to do so. I do feel empathetic but it’s a multilayered topic that people outside of my community would be empathetic to. Talking about cages, yes it is evil but the same abandonment and later enslavement of foreign children is also a much more extreme evil. Coyotes transport humans in inhumane conditions to only scalp and even start human trafficking in a new level. It doesn’t help that people in my community have done more harm of our image than improve from it. There is a reason why I agree people should be developed into learning a country and not blindly step into one. Advantageous groups take children and turn them into dealers and low lives. We want immigrants to come in the country legally. If they go through illegal channels fine but they live a new life here not carry the old one. I know many friends who failed to follow that thought. I hope you understand and not label me as a wanna be whitey. I noticed how dismissive and racist these imbeciles on Twitter have gotten to be. It’s so hypocritical to think they care.
Hi we’re not in the old world new one mentality that colonists believed in. It’s disappointing to think our problems can simply be solved by running away. Humanity has gotten pessimistic to the idea of change that conformity has turned to a new norm. Especially on Twitter people touting statistics does little to understand community influence, state influence and eventually capital influence. It’s ludicrous to not factor those in to our society thinking it’s fine to just stuff people in infested cities. People should find a better opportunity but putting all that faith to the nearest country to even abandoning kids for a “better life” is a “greater good” but a moral evil. A better tomorrow is if people always test government than saying “I’ll leave to (insert country) when (insert leader) is elected into office”. Fight from home and hold accountable leaders who ruined countries with policies. Obrador and others under his wing are doing so with cartels liberally opening hearts and eating them while their victims live... I just can’t think why be defeated...
The damage done by the previous administrations of the U.S. government is one reason why we have migration coming our way. It takes 10 years or more to become a citizen in this country. We could make that shorter but republicans don't want to fund social security, let alone anything to do with citizenship. The current centrist leaders of the Democrats don't do anything because of their owners much like the corporations who own the republicans as well. Both sides realize the need for cheap labor and thus allow illegal immigration to continue at its current rate. The problem I have is when people view most of these immigrants as invaders. The company you work for is invading your paycheck by taking 80-90% of your actual pay because they deserve it more but yet you complain about people coming from U.S. ravaged countries that past neo liberal neo conservative administrations did. If. Of course take out the criminal ones but legalize all the illegals here now, just like the worst president for the working and poor class did, Reagan.
We need to go places we haven't been, or we don't know what is there. What is at the bottom of the ocean? What is at the center of a black hole? What would happen if we suddenly jumped universes, again and again. Is there a center to the universe? What if we are the forerunners of our universe? Is there a cap to how much fear a single person can feel? What if a person suddenly started going back in time? What if a person started seeing things in other spectrums of light? A complete world lying on top of our own, unseen? What if a colony ship start a long journey, but a faster than light ship is developed before it can reach its destination, and passes it by? What if there is ancient writing on a distant planet, in English?
And that's why the new Twilight Zone is canceled and isn't returning for Season 3 --- YAY!!! The 2019 Twilight Zone is a masterclass example of how NOT to do storytelling.
@@alien777 I'm rewatching the new series two episodes of the 2019 series felt like they could have been in the original 1958 show. The Small Town episode and The Who Of You episode were fantastic
Okay but there’s a strong case to be made that the Prequel trilogy as a whole, and Clone Wars, are Parables. Lucas has described this era as a period piece, we see that Anakin is wrong, Pong Krell is wrong, Palpatine is wrong.
Almost every episode of 2019 TZ was about having your status quo changed. That showed how little we had to fear in 2019. Both the 80s and 60s TZ were afraid of war. 2002 TZ's episodes were afraid of death. If Twilight Zone wants to come back, the real world needs to be terrifying. I guess were just not there right now.
Gotta admit. Thats a weird way to put it...because these days are more terrifying then ever, which is why I think shows like the Twilight zone aren't as terrifying. Because the world' is already freakishly creepy. . Lemme put it this way. The old shows were wayyy creepier , because people watched horror to escape. Nowadays, too much horror is too hard to create and ends up depressing ,because life is already a horror show. People want more lighthearted nature stuff to watch nowadays✌🏽 Which sucks. Because I miss the old horror style , when the world itself wasn't pure terror.
@@MrCaliforniaLivin it would also require the other side of the political spectrum to have a voice l, orherwise it’s just a state-approved echo chamber
S1E1 is about the prime minister of Great Britain fucking a swine. S1E2 is the most on-face metaphor for capitalism ever. The show gets explicitly political on numerous occasions.
@@malasc12 Yes, it was. You clearly know nothing about The Twilight Zone if you think it was not a social commetary. The episode "Eye of the Beholder" is an episode about racism. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is about paranoia and the red scare. "I Am The Night - Color Me Black" is also about racism with the justice system. The whole reason Serling made the series was to make political statements that he wasn't allowed to do without it being behind a science fiction curtain.
I tried to watch a # of these and yes most of them were boring. The direction was also so overly artsy that it would make .M. Night Shyamalan jealous. It just didn't come together and yes the 1 hour run time hurt it in this case. Not a good show, but there were maybe 2 or 3 decent entries in two seasons. That isn't good.
I haven’t seen it since it was released, but I remember liking the episode shown at 0:57. I finally ordered the Twilight Zone collection on Blu Ray, as it was on sale for a really good price on Amazon. I can’t wait for it to come today, it’s been a long time since I marathoned a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes.
Maybe sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar but Jordan Peele’s movies and this show (whatever he calls it) try so hard to be symbolic and meaningful but underneath are all smoke. Preaching to the converted.
0:50 "diversity" you mean virtue signaling, which is why it always feels disingenuous the main reason the show sucked is cause it wasn't a critique on anything or commentary it was LECTURING the audience, there was no nuance to who was good or bad just obvious if white bad if anything else good
It quite literally doesn’t matter, you know what he’s taking about, everyone knows who he’s talking about, which means it’s a simple error that isn’t an issue
It's terrible just watched a couple of the new twilight zone season 2. The older ones in the 60s were more complex even though they had less money, better writing
Another one where you nailed exactly what the problem is. I would argue that Jordan Peele's other tv production, "Lovecraft Country," suffers from a lot of the same problems. Two things: The original Twilight Zone went to being an hour during the fifth season. They quickly realized this was a mistake and went back to 30 mins the following season. The 1985 version is very underrated. There are two seasons and quite a few of them are extremely good.
The original is one of my favourite shows of all time . Only reboot that i thought decent was the 80s one. The episodes in 2019 show are too damn long. And too preachy
Sometimes real world issues need to be exhibited through science fiction because we deal with the harsh realities each day. Nobody needs it repeated after, let’s say work or something
More on preach fatigue. I dont think it's that we are tired of getting a message in our media. We are tired of HOW it is in our media. It's not done well or subtly. The original twilight zone had something to say about these issues. The 2019 TZ felt that they had to say something about these issues, even when they dont have anything new to add.
Was planning to watch this, but thank you for showing me I haven't missed out on anything, good video. I think that the biggest issue with quite many modern shows is the lack of subtlety. Similar issue was in Doctor Who series during the Chibnal era. The best life lesson/social commentary is the one the viewers figufe out themselves, the "Aha" moment when the episode ends, you put the pieces together and realize the message yourself. Stuffing moral lessons into the audiences face is not just boring, but also insulting, as if the writers were expecting a dumb audience and so they spoonfeed you the message. It's simmilar to how The Avatars story was full of two dimensional characters, guy A is clearly evil, guy B is clearly good, no background story explaining why they are on the side they are on, etc. You also have a good point about oversaturation of certain issues.
I was shocked at how bad and boring the first season is with all it's preachiness, but the second season was actually really good. I used to watch the original and the 80s version with my mom and dad all the time. The old one is still solid the 80s version is a bit dated but the 80s intro still puts fair in me, like when I was a little kid.
I think the biggest problem of this twilight zone is that it’s two on the nose and too long. Most of the episodes I figured out where the plot was going in the first 20 minutes and then I realize they were still another 40 minutes to go. Once you know where it’s going, it’s not that interesting anymore. And even on a few occasions when they did, keep me wondering if usually wasn’ a good pay off. I mean look at the Donald Trump episode to see just how painfully obvious everything was.
I’m fine with social commentary and political linings. But why does everything have to a trite political taking point? The original Twilight Zone did this very well. See the S4 Nazi episode for instance.
TZ 2019 is nothing more than TZ remade for black people full of black actors and produced by black horror director Jordan Peele. Lacking in creativity and original content.
yup just Peele and his own racism towards white anything and it shows every villain that's why affably evil no redeeming and anyone else is morally good always no matter what, its trite
Every time they try to remake the Twilight Zone it falls way short of the original and just makes the original look even more impressive.
I really liked the 80s version. But the original is better
It’s because they are!
Not to mention the quality of the actors at that time in history.
The run time of the new one doesn't help. Season 4 of the original showed why anything more than 25 minutes just doesn't work. Yes, there is occassionally one that does like Her Pilgrim Soul in the 80s version and Printer's Devil for Season 4, but those are a rarity.
I agree the original is the best but I love episodes from every iteration
Where would you place Black Mirror on the spectrum?
I am glad someone else thought the 2019 series was BORING. Thank You!
Rod SERLING
The original show had a season of an hour. People didn't like that season
It's "Serling", not "Sterling".
The show also didn't begin in 1950.
Right, it was 1958 @@backforblood3421
At one point Serling s e r l i n g is spelled correctly right on the same screen over which he's talking
Wikipedia youtubers that churn out content they know nothing about 🤙
To be fair, there are so many people that think it’s Sterling that you have about a 50/50 chance of hearing it when someone talks about him. Its a Mandela effect kinda thing, except this is grounded in the fact that it’s a single letter difference and Sterling is a preexisting word
Another thing about the original series is that there are episodes that are not scary or suspenseful at all, but are still parables. Like ‘One for the Angels’ or ‘Walking Distance’. The original series was truly an anthology because each episode could be completely different, but still feel connected.
(Spoilers for episodes)
Another problem I had was that things were just happening, and if you ask yourself "Why? This doesn't make much sense, and if I question it, it just feels like incompetence of the characters, even though they're portrayed as smart (like the black mom in episode 3), or incompetence on Peele's side", the show is just like "It just happens, don't think about it, don't question it", and, like, the best part about The Twilight Zone has always been the questioning part. But in Peele's show, I was mostly just bored, and when I did question things and have my own theories on what's going on, the "twist" is just so lame and boring. If there even is one.
Like "Oh, this racist white cop is specifically targeting this black woman and her son, but was totally fine with the black woman who served him food in the diner, and even complimented her and her cooking a lot? And he even shows up anywhere they go, almost magically? I feel like there's something more to this episode than just a camcorder than can rewind time! Maybe mom has a secret or something? After all, they used this camcorder before as well for decades (it's her dad's), and only suddenly it started rewinding time, so there must be something going on!", and then you realize "Oh, there's nothing? The guy is just racist, and not magical? He wasn't racist towards the black lady who made and served him food because "reasons"? He just magically showed up because the plot demanded? Mom didn't use the camcorder properly whatsoever to cause unnecessary tension? And they give a mini-Martin Luther King speech at the end to stand up to a line of *white* racist cops? Okay...I thought there was something more to it."
Or "Oh, astronauts get to go to Mars, but know that their home planet may be doomed? Cool, I can't wait to see them try to make their life work on Mars! Or at least to see more of space, cause space is the coolest part of space, and any space-related story!...Oh, we won't get to see them get to Mars, except at the end? And we don't get to see space almost at all? Even through the windows? Whole episode is on the ship, and practically NOTHING happens while on there? One guy, Pierson, only assumes it's all fake, a stress test, and tries to go out the airlock? So it's not a stress test, and they get to Mars? But it still zooms out to a dark room with Pierson, and aliens (who we don't see, cause that would require them spending money) just say how they passed the "test", making you think that it was a simulation because they did get Pierson (somehow, when he opened the lock, we saw the Sun, and for some reason the air wasn't being sucked out of the room, and he had like 10 seconds of being absolutely okay, despite a completely open airlock, and staring at the sun, before the solar flare had to kill him, presumably? Peele doesn't understand space xd), meaning that it may have been them, and not a sun, Idk? But if that's the case, and it was a simulation, then those astronauts never actually got to Mars, though? And their home was not ruined? But that would imply that none of that happened, and that they didn't go through an actual destruction of their home, and that they're not on Mars? But how is the simulation conducted? Did they abduct those astronauts, and force them through this? The episode doesn't explain that. It doesn't explain anything. The entire alien part was so absolutely fucking random and dumb, and the aliens are like "They passed the test, they may be worth saving"...so does that imply that the world is okay, and that it's on the brink of destruction? I'm just fucking confused. It's convoluted and dumb. And boring because we don't get to see space, we barely get to see Mars, or let alone them trying to make living on Mars work, and mostly we get to see people in a spaceship, mostly bickering about things that are non-issue. Like, Takamura Rei (a completely African American looking woman, like, she doesn't even look half Japanese, so this name either implies she's just a weeb who changed her name, or that one of her parents is Japanese, but she got no Japanese traits from that parent, tho the former theory is funnier, and not out of the equation) makes a huge problem out of them...choosing to blast off towards Mars. I repeat, she was angry, and said that they didn't care about her or her life, because of that decision. When making such a decision is the very showcase of them caring. Otherwise, she would've died. They went over that. In fact, they spent 5-10 minutes discussing whether they should leave, when they've heard that an ICBM missile is headed towards their near vicinity.
I swear, Peele had solid stuff. "Get Out" and "Nope" were great movies. I haven't watched "Us", but didn't hear good things about it.
But it's like the dude had a stroke after making those movies, and just decided like he can't write characters properly. The entire show, people just "do" things that make no sense for any normal person to do, or say stuff that I'm like "Normal people don't talk like that lol", often without any explanation, probably because it's not a movie's length where those characters could be better explored.
He tackles a TV Show the way he'd tackle a movie, for every episode. And it does NOT help. I don't think I've had a single really likable character that I wanted to root for in the first season. (didn't get to second season yet)
They all have their problems, and so often he tries to make the issue of racism, or refugees, or white people = bad, or men = bad, and all such issues in the episodes, and makes those things the main deal of the episode, and all the weirdness of The Twilight Zone is just absolutely secondary to it. In the third episode, I genuinely forget that they have the rewinding camcorder half the time, because of either how little emphasis is put into it, or how badly it's used. The mom even uses it for Lotto, not to win it, but to have a sweet moment with her son (Which, don't get me, was VERY sweet, but for fuck's sake, might as well use it to ACTUALLY win Lotto, and never have problems with money ever again, you or your son, or his future daughter), like, she doesn't even THINK about using it for winning Lotto, and then deciding not to. When any normal person would be like "Well, might as well. It's not an objectively bad thing to do, so why not? If anything, it's objectively good, as it helps me, my family and their future, and no one really suffers from it."
Like, Adam "Fucking" Sandler used his remote in Click better than she did. I was only ever pissed that he decided to not take it on his second chance at the end of the movie, and I was like "Bruh, the only downside to it was using the fast forward option, so just don't use that!!!".
Idk, this shit just makes me feel like Peele should avoid making shows, and stick to movies, where he can flesh things out a lot more. Which is odd, since he should be way more used to making UA-cam skits and shorts. (which half the time feel like they had more budget than this show, with how little they were showing of the abnormal, honestly)
And it sucks, cause both "Get Out" and "Nope" had a dope idea and/or premise. And executed it SO WELL. So going into this show, I was like "Well, after those movies, I feel like Peele has some awesome horror-esque ideas cooking in his good ol' noggin'!", but no, the premises were either boring (camcorder that rewinds time), dumb (meteor makes men angy), or just secondary to a preachy subject (the camcorder episode, and the refugee episode, off the top of my head).
Honestly if the show had the creativity of more complex themes i think it’d be pretty good esp with their budget, like if they rlly wanna shock people you’re gonna have to do better than “don’t be mean to immigrants” sry :/
Especially if you don't realize the message you're pushing is dishonest due to your lack of understanding of the real/whole situation.
There is another serious difference between this TZ and the original series: Serling was political, but not partisan. He addressed McCarthyism with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," but he was just as quick to address Marxism with "The Mirror" and "The Obsolete Man" (which references Stalin). Serling knew that ANY extreme of any sort, regardless of left or right on the political spectrum, could be dangerous. (BTW, Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series handled this the same way as well)
The 2019 TZ fails in this regard. The politics are almost exclusively favorable to leftist ideas. "Not all Men" is basically a blind exercise in Misandry, and something Serling would not have approved of because of its "one-sidedness." This is beyond social commentary; it's flat out Riefenstahl-esque propaganda.
Well said.
❤Yes, this.
Agreed. The 2019 version's politics were so in your face and one-sided that there was no nuance to the stories.
Exactly. Old media wasn't biased. Today, all modern media is about punishing, berating, and/or shaming anyone who isn't a woke leftist or liberal.
If your takeaway is "this sci-fi should have spent more time criticizing both sides" and not "Is this interesting?" I don't think we're going to agree about what a good TZ is, unless it's an accident.
When this version of the Twilight zone first came out I've never seen an episode of the original and after seeing rewind I thought the entirety of the Twilight Zone was another piece of overhyped fiction. I then watched a bit of the original... and then the entire run of the original quickly becoming one of my all time favourite shows.
I feel you have forgotten a few key things as to why 2019 failed over the old version with the main thing not being preach fatigue but rather what is being talked about, how its being talked about and what issues they were tackling.
The original Twilight Zone rarely tackled issues of the day and rather issues of people like addiction, difficult choices, dreams, death, and our fellow man and used a tool that's lost to our contemporary storytellers: Nuance. More often than not the reason why the twists of the old twilight zone episodes worked was because the story up to that point was nuanced enough that it functioned as a twist even if the twist is there being no twist at all. One of my favorite episodes of the original run was the out-dated man and the reason for this was simply that the twist was that it showed that one way or another a future like that is going to suck for everyone and what helped it was the characters themselves being multilayered and entertaining.
in the 2019 twilight zone the characters and especially the threats they were facing was bland, unoriginal, and worst of all when it comes to something as timeless as the twilight zone, dated. I can't think of a better example of this than the episode rewind. In the episode a mother finds her cam corder has the ability to rewind time and everytime she does this the cop in the story behaves a little more suspiciously. Why is this? Is it because the message is about time and how no matter how much we want events to change the thing we should really be worried about is making sure its spent with our loved ones? Is it because the cop was actually a multi-dimensional ranger after the device for making too many new universes playing with the idea of the multiverse and how important our choices are? nope he's just a racist cop and all it took was a speech to get him to back off despite being shown in the episode to essentially be a terminator beforehand.
The new twilight zone falls into a new common pitfall of new writers that think that there is no nuance to any issue and that the only issue that can be talked about are the ones that show tribe A being mean to tribe B giving it the complexity of a preschool book and all the nuance of a brick through a window with the message vandalism is bad written on it. There are issues that can universally effect people no matter race, gender, or statice. These are the issues that should have been focused on.
One other thing you are incorrect with the idea that a message being too subtle is the reason why people won't change their minds, its the opposite. If you treat a person who disagrees with you on ANY topic like an idiot and/or inherently evil they aren't going to listen
Well said
These are my feelings too. The original Twilight Zone was not subtle in its political and social statements, but 2019 Twilight Zone was so over-the-top with its messages that Jordan Peele may as well as just filmed a political talk-show.
ie preach fatigue
Correct.👏🙂
I haven't watched it, but my mother and I were both big fans ofthe original twilight zone run. She was then pretty excited for the most recent iteration but she said it didn't understand the point of Twilight Zone and was too reliant on gore or blatant symbols of shock or fear. It wasn't subtle or thoughtful enough, if I remember her correctly.
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Twilight Zone 2002 version gets to much hate. 2019 TZ was so horrible I'll take 2002 version over it any day and it's not even close.
2002 was pretty cool had a certain vibe to it. The 80s was bad to me and the original is just perfect even after all these years
Exactly 💯
Never watched the 2002 but I don’t think 2019 is horrible a lot of the episodes were extremely engaging
0:49 and that right there made me not want to watch it. Nothing has ever been made better by adding diversity for diversitys sake..
This is a very good explanation of more than just the new Twilight Zone. Also tactfully spoken.
The Twilight Zone is where Robert Pattinson's Career went through before The Lighthouse.
Why didn't they make it in black and white? I always felt like the visuals of the original add to the feeling of being in a strange alternate universe.
While I agree that black n white creates a mood in the original, I think colour is considered a given for today's audience who may be put off by black n white visuals. I think that's one of the reasons why not more people today watch the original TZ, and other black n white shows/movies for that matter - some of the audience today just probably don't enjoy the aesthetic and think it looks "outdated" and therefore don't become interested.
Because we have color TV now
So basically you take a classic Tom and Jerry short, stretch it to 1 hour length and instead of adding new gags to fill the length of the episode you put in exposition to give context to why each of the gags are supposed to be funny.
Great video! I was trying to figure out why the new TZ is so underwhelming, and I think you hit the nail on the head.
Honestly, I think Black Mirror is a better TZ reboot than the actual one.
You obviously don't get how television works if it wasn't for TV shows like the Twilight Zone we wouldn't have TV shows like black mirror so your taste has no originality nor taste
I agree that Black Mirror is a better reboot of Twilight Zone
@@Hatsu220what is your dumbass talking about, learn to read before making a comment💀💀
Also, remember how much more literate the original generation, writers and viewers, were. Our artifacts are almost entirely cinematic, not verbal, and so only very partially based on the continuous inner dialog of language.
Very well put
It's Serling, not Sterling @ 4 seconds
your definition of science fiction is ironically YOUR definition. Going on for five minutes about your definition of science fiction is boring.
The original twilight zone proves you can do much more with less.
Preach fatigue is correct. I don't want my escape media to preach at me.
Twilight zone isn’t escape media. It’s always dealt with social issues and always had a moral to the message
@@cannon9521messages were way better cuz they were actually right and also entertaining and weird
@@cannon9521 if that were the case then how come it’s only recently become a negative?
@deathmetal271 What Rod Serling did in the original TZ is he had “aliens say things politicians couldn’t”, and he hid it. The extremely fractured Jordan Peele version told stories containing a lot of political and societal messages; basically shouting them at you, but missing the science fiction look. It can be compared to an experienced, make up artist trying to reach the achievements of James whale, Make up man who did Frankenstein in 1933. This is one reason why the reboot failed and I’m actually glad it failed and is gone forever
Yep. I'm tired of having blatant, one sided politics in our media. It's not approached in an interesting or welcoming manner either, it's just a method used to shame the average person.
Peele isn't as smart as he thinks he is either
5:37 So the meteor turned all men into New Yorkers?
First, the episodes were too long. There's a reason why only the 4th season of the original had hour long episodes. Second. all of the episodes were too preachy. The original TZ had messages but was thought provoking. Serling clashed constantly with censors but delivered the message.
The new ones are too long.
30 minutes was enough.
So technically the original show was “Woke” but it wasn’t too in your face, was better written, and shorter?
If by woke you mean the opposite of the 2019 version, yeah.
The 2019 version is nothing but collectivist identity politics that would probably make Rod Serling puke. [See: The Obsolete Man]
The guy was an individualist and it shows in his writing. You can see it in the subjects he lists in the video (prejudice, conformity, intolerance, censorship); they're all symptoms of collectivist ideologies. That's the real reason the 2019 version sucks. It's soulless ideological drivel.
@@dreamsof3dspace555 Thanks you just saved me wasting my money.
@@Cryo837 No problem bro, unfortunately I sat through them all out of a kind of morbid curiosity and they got worse and worse.
@@dreamsof3dspace555 well said!
@@dreamsof3dspace555 I'm not sure collectivist is an accurate or helpful description.
This video discusses it exceptionally well; Twilight zone 2019 primary problem is the shallow, reductive nature of the parables and the length of episode.
The show can end up creating more division to be hones. If im racist and on the tv i see a 1 hour show about how racists are pieces of trash with not a single good quality, please tell me in what party im going to end up with. The people that think im trash or other racists that accept me. You need to be extremly inteligent to create an argument that draws conversation instead of atacking the other band.
Mostly it’s the writing. The 1960 episodes were written by people that had actually lived lives during very hard times, WWII, the Great Depression. The 2019 episodes are written by young college educated people that have lived easy lives and get all their knowledge from social media. Hence the shallowness.
I really hope more wisened and insightful people start flooding the arts with more good quality work. I'm tired of all the trite crappy shallow stuff. Feels like I have to avoid half of what comes out just to not waste my time on media that does nothing positive for my mind, heart, and soul. I want more stuff like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune, heck even Poor Things even though that film has some annoyingly on the nose ideological pushes. I want more music that pushes boundaries like Animal Collective and Oneohtrix Point Never. I want more shows like Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, The Wire, etc. I want more deep art that I can revisit a dozen times and still pick up on more details and intricacies that I never noticed before.
As an artist myself I strive to create art like this myself as well. And I try to help keep my artist friends motivated and boost morale to do the same.
that prison scene from Get Out was the deleted original ending which i'm sure many aren't aware of.
Random, but Rod Serling is handsome as f*ck!
He is!!!😍 I've always thought that, since I was much younger. Plus, he's intelligent, obviously creative, and extremely articulate - traits that I find extremely attractive!👍
Agreeeeed! 😍😍
Cool dude and great speaker , great voice.
3 of His lectures at UCLA HERE ON UA-cam 😊
I agree in most of your points, but Get Out is one of the preachiest movies I've ever seen, and I'm a PoC.
it’s like a left wing Kirk Cameron movie
It's so bad 😂😂
9:55 it’s not that I don’t understand, it mainly an issue considering the wars that brought in refugees to Europe and US which shows how deteriorating and decayed these open border ideas are. I’m Hispanic but even I know the American system is benefited with lies and exploitation because of communities who are willing to do so. I do feel empathetic but it’s a multilayered topic that people outside of my community would be empathetic to.
Talking about cages, yes it is evil but the same abandonment and later enslavement of foreign children is also a much more extreme evil. Coyotes transport humans in inhumane conditions to only scalp and even start human trafficking in a new level. It doesn’t help that people in my community have done more harm of our image than improve from it. There is a reason why I agree people should be developed into learning a country and not blindly step into one. Advantageous groups take children and turn them into dealers and low lives.
We want immigrants to come in the country legally. If they go through illegal channels fine but they live a new life here not carry the old one. I know many friends who failed to follow that thought.
I hope you understand and not label me as a wanna be whitey. I noticed how dismissive and racist these imbeciles on Twitter have gotten to be. It’s so hypocritical to think they care.
Hi we’re not in the old world new one mentality that colonists believed in. It’s disappointing to think our problems can simply be solved by running away. Humanity has gotten pessimistic to the idea of change that conformity has turned to a new norm. Especially on Twitter people touting statistics does little to understand community influence, state influence and eventually capital influence. It’s ludicrous to not factor those in to our society thinking it’s fine to just stuff people in infested cities. People should find a better opportunity but putting all that faith to the nearest country to even abandoning kids for a “better life” is a “greater good” but a moral evil. A better tomorrow is if people always test government than saying “I’ll leave to (insert country) when (insert leader) is elected into office”. Fight from home and hold accountable leaders who ruined countries with policies. Obrador and others under his wing are doing so with cartels liberally opening hearts and eating them while their victims live...
I just can’t think why be defeated...
The damage done by the previous administrations of the U.S. government is one reason why we have migration coming our way. It takes 10 years or more to become a citizen in this country. We could make that shorter but republicans don't want to fund social security, let alone anything to do with citizenship. The current centrist leaders of the Democrats don't do anything because of their owners much like the corporations who own the republicans as well. Both sides realize the need for cheap labor and thus allow illegal immigration to continue at its current rate. The problem I have is when people view most of these immigrants as invaders. The company you work for is invading your paycheck by taking 80-90% of your actual pay because they deserve it more but yet you complain about people coming from U.S. ravaged countries that past neo liberal neo conservative administrations did. If. Of course take out the criminal ones but legalize all the illegals here now, just like the worst president for the working and poor class did, Reagan.
We need to go places we haven't been, or we don't know what is there. What is at the bottom of the ocean? What is at the center of a black hole? What would happen if we suddenly jumped universes, again and again. Is there a center to the universe? What if we are the forerunners of our universe? Is there a cap to how much fear a single person can feel? What if a person suddenly started going back in time? What if a person started seeing things in other spectrums of light? A complete world lying on top of our own, unseen? What if a colony ship start a long journey, but a faster than light ship is developed before it can reach its destination, and passes it by? What if there is ancient writing on a distant planet, in English?
Those are all great ideas! 😌
You should write this!
Twilight Zone 1959: Tells a story.
Twilight Zone 2019: Tells the dominant political mainstream viewpoint.
And that's why the new Twilight Zone is canceled and isn't returning for Season 3 --- YAY!!! The 2019 Twilight Zone is a masterclass example of how NOT to do storytelling.
1959 explorse complext Themas that where not Explored jet
2019 Explorers themes that are already are sucked try
@@alien777 I'm rewatching the new series two episodes of the 2019 series felt like they could have been in the original 1958 show. The Small Town episode and The Who Of You episode were fantastic
Yeah, it really sucked
yup
Okay but there’s a strong case to be made that the Prequel trilogy as a whole, and Clone Wars, are Parables. Lucas has described this era as a period piece, we see that Anakin is wrong, Pong Krell is wrong, Palpatine is wrong.
Almost every episode of 2019 TZ was about having your status quo changed. That showed how little we had to fear in 2019. Both the 80s and 60s TZ were afraid of war. 2002 TZ's episodes were afraid of death.
If Twilight Zone wants to come back, the real world needs to be terrifying. I guess were just not there right now.
Gotta admit. Thats a weird way to put it...because these days are more terrifying then ever, which is why I think shows like the Twilight zone aren't as terrifying. Because the world' is already freakishly creepy. .
Lemme put it this way.
The old shows were wayyy creepier , because people watched horror to escape.
Nowadays, too much horror is too hard to create and ends up depressing ,because life is already a horror show.
People want more lighthearted nature stuff to watch nowadays✌🏽
Which sucks. Because I miss the old horror style , when the world itself wasn't pure terror.
@@MrCaliforniaLivin it would also require the other side of the political spectrum to have a voice l, orherwise it’s just a state-approved echo chamber
Yeah, I just tried to get through that racist 1st episode. Gawd, it sucks so bad 🙄🤮🤮🤮
Serling*
The original twilight zone fcked me up sometimes like it was really good this new one just doesn't have the same feel idk why
People liked black mirror which is essentially the twilight zone without the politics
S1E1 is about the prime minister of Great Britain fucking a swine. S1E2 is the most on-face metaphor for capitalism ever. The show gets explicitly political on numerous occasions.
Twilight Zone has always been about politics. And Black Mirror is too.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetworkno it hasn't
@@malasc12 Yes, it was. You clearly know nothing about The Twilight Zone if you think it was not a social commetary. The episode "Eye of the Beholder" is an episode about racism. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is about paranoia and the red scare. "I Am The Night - Color Me Black" is also about racism with the justice system.
The whole reason Serling made the series was to make political statements that he wasn't allowed to do without it being behind a science fiction curtain.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork that's 3 episodes out of hundreds. They're not always political
The new TZ in super bad , watched first 3 episode's and won't be watching anymore .
You can do whatever you want, but I recommend keeping an open mind
@@yaboio2124 i found it to be rubbish
parabot2 ok
Yeah it's not for me. Serling used to be subtle, Jordan Peele is not
@@yaboio2124 Keeping a open mind to Peele's anti white bull shit? xD
apparently im the first person here from amanda's video?? king u gotta upload more this video is great !!!
right! i love these kind of review videos
Thanks!
I tried to watch a # of these and yes most of them were boring. The direction was also so overly artsy that it would make
.M. Night Shyamalan jealous. It just didn't come together and yes the 1 hour run time hurt it in this case. Not a good show, but there were maybe 2 or 3 decent entries in two seasons. That isn't good.
I haven’t seen it since it was released, but I remember liking the episode shown at 0:57. I finally ordered the Twilight Zone collection on Blu Ray, as it was on sale for a really good price on Amazon. I can’t wait for it to come today, it’s been a long time since I marathoned a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes.
The new tells stories of todays time while the old tells the story of human nature overall can’t compete
The new version also looks washed out and ugly due to bad color grading.
I didnt believe there would be a worst series than 2002's remake.
SERLING! ROD SERLING! there is no "t" in this man’s name! Stop calling him Sterling!
Maybe sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar but Jordan Peele’s movies and this show (whatever he calls it) try so hard to be symbolic and meaningful but underneath are all smoke. Preaching to the converted.
0:50 "diversity" you mean virtue signaling, which is why it always feels disingenuous
the main reason the show sucked is cause it wasn't a critique on anything or commentary it was LECTURING the audience, there was no nuance to who was good or bad just obvious if white bad if anything else good
It's Jordan Peele. He's woke 😆😆😆
Rod Sterling? Seriously?
I know he keeps saying it wrong. But quite a few people say it that way. Smh
It quite literally doesn’t matter, you know what he’s taking about, everyone knows who he’s talking about, which means it’s a simple error that isn’t an issue
It's Rod serling not sterling. So many people make that mistake
It's terrible just watched a couple of the new twilight zone season 2. The older ones in the 60s were more complex even though they had less money, better writing
Yeah they really fcked up what could’ve been a modern day classic show. It’s the same disappointment I felt when anticipating American Horror
Having Jordan Peele involved was the first clue this thing was going to fail hard.
Another one where you nailed exactly what the problem is. I would argue that Jordan Peele's other tv production, "Lovecraft Country," suffers from a lot of the same problems.
Two things:
The original Twilight Zone went to being an hour during the fifth season. They quickly realized this was a mistake and went back to 30 mins the following season.
The 1985 version is very underrated. There are two seasons and quite a few of them are extremely good.
Boring? I think that is nuts
I really enjoyed these, mainly because they were not straight rehashes of the original.
The creator of Twilight Zone is Rod SERLING..........NOT STERLING.
The original is one of my favourite shows of all time . Only reboot that i thought decent was the 80s one. The episodes in 2019 show are too damn long. And too preachy
Jordon Peele thinks this is The Twilight Zone, But makes it like it's tales from the Crypt.
Tales from the crypt is supirior to enything peele did. Lamo
@@alien777objectively wrong, Get out is better
Sometimes real world issues need to be exhibited through science fiction because we deal with the harsh realities each day. Nobody needs it repeated after, let’s say work or something
More on preach fatigue. I dont think it's that we are tired of getting a message in our media. We are tired of HOW it is in our media. It's not done well or subtly. The original twilight zone had something to say about these issues. The 2019 TZ felt that they had to say something about these issues, even when they dont have anything new to add.
I did not watch this new twilight zone show and jugging by the clips and your great review I have not miss much.
60 years not 70
Was planning to watch this, but thank you for showing me I haven't missed out on anything, good video.
I think that the biggest issue with quite many modern shows is the lack of subtlety.
Similar issue was in Doctor Who series during the Chibnal era.
The best life lesson/social commentary is the one the viewers figufe out themselves, the "Aha" moment when the episode ends, you put the pieces together and realize the message yourself.
Stuffing moral lessons into the audiences face is not just boring, but also insulting, as if the writers were expecting a dumb audience and so they spoonfeed you the message. It's simmilar to how The Avatars story was full of two dimensional characters, guy A is clearly evil, guy B is clearly good, no background story explaining why they are on the side they are on, etc.
You also have a good point about oversaturation of certain issues.
Excellent analysis.
1959: 22 minutes
2019: 39 minutes
I thought season 2 was an improvement
1:41 which series/movie is that ?
2000s and 80s did a good job imo.
Fun fact: 2000s twilight zone intro song was played by nu metal band Korn.
I was shocked at how bad and boring the first season is with all it's preachiness, but the second season was actually really good. I used to watch the original and the 80s version with my mom and dad all the time. The old one is still solid
the 80s version is a bit dated but the 80s intro still puts fair in me, like when I was a little kid.
sterling??? STERLING?!!??
😂
Yo come back
This show is full of woke garbage
Rod Sterling, the famous British silver smith
Great video man, keep at it!!
I think the biggest problem of this twilight zone is that it’s two on the nose and too long. Most of the episodes I figured out where the plot was going in the first 20 minutes and then I realize they were still another 40 minutes to go. Once you know where it’s going, it’s not that interesting anymore. And even on a few occasions when they did, keep me wondering if usually wasn’ a good pay off. I mean look at the Donald Trump episode to see just how painfully obvious everything was.
You couldn't be more wrong when saying the force isnt important to star wars haha
This is a good video. Thank you!
I’m fine with social commentary and political linings. But why does everything have to a trite political taking point? The original Twilight Zone did this very well. See the S4 Nazi episode for instance.
Did you just forget to mention the hour-long Serling Season 4 slugfests with only 2 or 3 classics?
The lesson of the new Twilight Zone parable is WOKE, SJW, man-hating propaganda is unwatchable and insulting garbage.
TZ 2019 is nothing more than TZ remade for black people full of black actors and produced by black horror director Jordan Peele. Lacking in creativity and original content.
yup just Peele and his own racism towards white anything and it shows every villain that's why affably evil no redeeming and anyone else is morally good always no matter what, its trite
Did you quit UA-cam?
Pretty good points. 👍
the fact that you keep saying rod "sterling" instead of serling which was his name just totally destroys the credibility of this video for me
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Como tu
Hope your making more videos.
This deserves WAY more views!
im sorry but saying star wars would be the same without the force tells me you have never played kotor 2 lol
So...are you Swell’s editor? 😂
I am indeed, you have found the secret channel
The old twilight zone dealt with philosophy. The new one is just tiresome anti white propaganda
came to say hi after seeing your channel on Amanda's video :3 pop off king
I thought it was good
Great video.
I don't fully like your restrictive definition of science fiction even if I do understand it.
you are 1000 percent Kitbosh
SERling , ffs, STOP DISRESPECTING THE MAN!!!
This episode is sexist!😡🤮🤢
Common jordan peele L
My cousin was excited for this 1 too I haven't seen it But what