Well...that was depressing

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
10/03/2019 at 16:12 • Filed to: Scary door

Shouldn’t be watching Twilight Zone on my lunch breaks

I’ve been watching Twilight Zone on Netflix lately, I quite like most of these ol episodes . I think its a cool way to peer backwards into the real world as its represented , and the societal norms and worries of that generation to contrast with this one. i.e. what did people worry about then, what was the general mood. Media reflects society’s mood after all...which is why we have been so fixated on either fantasy or post apocalypse in the last 15-20 years. Put it another way...what would back to the future II look like if it was made today? It’d be a lot “grittier” and more “real”.

Anyway, a lot of these are supernatural or “what if’s” etc. Futurama nails it with their !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! parody. Some are just grim views into life’s dark bits.

This one, episode 30 of season 1, is brutal. You keep thinking “oh this is where the weird stuff happens to the protagonist that changes everything ”

Nope, just more shittiness. Like I said...brutal.

DISCUSSION (8)

lone_liberal > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 16:43

The Twilight Zone episodes that really stick with me are the brutal ones. Episodes like Time Enough At Last or The Midnight Sun .

Boxer_4 > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 16:53

This is almost certainly my favorite Twilight Zone episode. I always try to catch it in the marathons.

I’ll admit the main character can seem very relatable at times.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 16:59

I love/hate Next Stop Willoughby. Love because it keeps you guessing and because there’s the sense even at the end like the guy is getting a glimpse into another plane of reality. Maybe he really did “step off” into paradise, he just had to leave the world *completely* behind. Hate, because the means of keeping you guessing and final twist are right on the edge of “we did something that seems like it has meaning but we didn’t actually figure out what the meaning was other than imply enough to confuse you”. That and the grimness.

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/03/2019 at 17:03

yeah I see what you mean. Its like a student film that had more meaning in their head than translates on screen. That being said, I think it was just the way they portrayed his “escape place” more than what it meant that does that.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 17:04

Just read the synopsis. Yeah, brutal.

I almost hate to recommend it because it’s just so hard to watch at times (the first episode is just vile ) , but have you watched any Black Mirror? It seems to be the modern successor to the Twilight Zone. Every one really makes you think, and the scary thing is that it seems to be showing us a future that’s not too far off...

HammerheadFistpunch > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
10/03/2019 at 17:05

Im avoiding black mirror. I don’t need any more foreboding in my life.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 17:06

I can’t blame you.

Boxer_4 > HammerheadFistpunch
10/03/2019 at 17:41

As a slightly amusing and related aside; I was with a group of friends in a MINI Cooper S a few years ago. W e ended up stranded on the Ohio Turnpike due to the splitting of a coolant line causing the engine to overheat and seize . We called the tow truck, and we followed it to the MINI dealer. It turns out the MINI dealer was located in Willoughby Hills. I was the only one to find this fact amusing...