[Spoilers- Duh] [Also : Our bad humor is presented in this article]
In 1959 the series, "The Twilight Zone" first premiered on CBS (so this is the 60th year) and ran until 1964. On this blog we've covered episodes from the first and 2nd remakes from the 80's and early 2000's. This year (2019) a third revival has premiered on CBS' streaming service (that most still won't be getting because why?) On April 1st, they released the first two episodes called "The Comedian" and "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet". That second title sounds like a remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from the original series.
"The Comedian"
Oh dang, the show is rated TV MA, what the heck? why? Run children run, you can't read this post! That's a first, never expected a TV MA rating for the Twilight Zone, that's like turning on Lassie and getting a TV 14 rating. Sorry, back on track.
The episode starts with , are we watching CNN why am I am I hearing politics? Oh it's a comedian, I think. (That would be the title sir) He doesn't seem to be getting roaring laughs. (It wasn't really funny.) The Comedian man wants his comedy to be more thoughtful , or to make people think. Oh that's why it's TV-MA , language (what is this Shotime?). He meets man who gives him advice for a better comedy thing.
Later on Samir goes on again and more 2nd Amendment talk but, then he tries the advice of be more personal. People start laughing. Going of the rails here, I will say the camera work is pretty nice it does have a cinematic feel to it. The man goes home and notices that the dog is missing and his girlfriend says they don't even have a dog. 10 Minutes in Jordan Peele , who is the producer of this remake , does the Rod Sterling thing of introducing our story. (Took them 10 minutes then?) The Intro starts with a modern feeling because modern. Which it is a nice intro so, it gets some points.
So Samir brings his girlfriend's nephew, Devon, with him to another comedy show. (Hey, This is TV MA, no kids!) He starts with his politics thing again and the room is deader than (I don't want to finish that). He starts making jokes about the guy before him and gets laughs. That man doesn't exist anymore and the bus stop wasn't crashed into anymore.
Samir starts using his new powers to eliminate people from existence. These are people he has decided shouldn't exist because of his judgement, we are getting all "Death Note" on us. It seems his mind has gone warped He tries again in an act with but it has no name so it doesn't work so he starts talking about his girlfriend's mentor and the laughs return. Because, he got rid of the professor his girlfriend, Rena, is not a lawyer anymore and works as a waitress. (oops) She also ends up breaking it off with him
At the end, Samir seems too have lost it just naming off people making them not exist anymore. Rena comes into the club and starts booing and she goes off on him and this causes him to talk about himself. This causes himself to no longer exist.
I looked at this episode on Youtube released by CBS themselves and they didn't release the other episode for free, This means that I don't have access to the 2nd episode that seems to be a remake of an original series episode. (Maybe one day.)
It was a 55 minute episode so, even longer than it would have been if it ran on CBS. The episode did have a slow pace to it because of the length of time. The episode plot and working was very much the feeling of a classic Twilight Zone episode it hit all those marks very well. For, it the episode was somewhat jarring because I wasn't expecting an episode of a show called "The Twilight Zone" to have strong language it shocks me because of the show. If this was a different show title or something it might be less jarring to me personally. That doesn't detract from the show though. It being somewhat shorter would have been a little better. I mentioned this above, it's well done in camera work and art design.
If you want to see this episode it's on Youtube currently (not sure how long) but it's here for now.
Tune in next time, when wonder something something.
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