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Post by asellus on Sept 20, 2018 11:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 11:42:51 GMT -5
And?
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Post by Rican on Sept 21, 2018 10:58:40 GMT -5
I'm stoked for this. Love Twilight Zone and based off Get Out Peele seems like he'd do a great job with a modern version.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 2, 2018 22:20:34 GMT -5
production has started...
Not sold on Peele's take on the classic intro yet... just doesn't seem to have the same inflection as Serling's.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 22:22:29 GMT -5
I REALLY hope this delivers. They got the perfect person to head it up and while the 80s series is pretty good in its own right (not nearly AS good, but it's really not reasonable to expect it to be), the 2000s one is kind of bleh.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Oct 2, 2018 22:27:48 GMT -5
I'm stoked for this. Love Twilight Zone and based off Get Out Peele seems like he'd do a great job with a modern version. Absolutely. Get Out actually seemed like it was heavily inspired by a Twilight Zone/Night Gallery too. That was the first thing I thought of when I watched it during an employee preview.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 2, 2018 22:35:18 GMT -5
what episode is the exploding sugar dispenser scene from its the only one I Don't recognize right away.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 2, 2018 22:58:01 GMT -5
Man I can't wait to go back and see.how Bella, Edward and Jacob are doing
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Post by Rican on Apr 2, 2019 11:35:25 GMT -5
The show just came out on CBS All Access. Anyone checked it out yet? I watched the first episode with Kumail Nanjiani last night and thought it was great.
This is a trailer for the rest of the season:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:39:46 GMT -5
I haven't given it a look yet, probably will this evening, but seems like it's becoming a target for review-bombing on RT. Major gap between the critic and audience scores and a whole lot of the comments going, "What a disappointment, didn't expect it to try to be political, this is disgusting," half-star ratings from people who apparently have no idea what the Twilight Zone is.
That said it does seem like the reboot is still working on finding its voice - even most of the positive reviews are saying that - but honestly the original show did the same thing and even at its best is often very uneven.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 2, 2019 11:55:56 GMT -5
I haven't given it a look yet, probably will this evening, but seems like it's becoming a target for review-bombing on RT. Major gap between the critic and audience scores and a whole lot of the comments going, "What a disappointment, didn't expect it to try to be political, this is disgusting," half-star ratings from people who apparently have no idea what the Twilight Zone is. I love that stuff. People thinking that science fiction and comic books giving political and social commentary is something brand new. Political and social commentary totally aren't things that have been a big part of science fiction and comic books since both began. The reason Serling did The Twilight Zone was because his scripts were being thrown out or censored because they were too controversial, and made political and social stands. Serling figured he'd have a lot more freedom to give political and social commentary if he put it in a show with robots, aliens, demons, and the supernatural.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Apr 2, 2019 11:59:31 GMT -5
I miss television shows airing on actual television networks. I’m curious to check this out. I’ll find it and do so eventually. Things can get out of sight, out of mind with me when I have to go out of my way to seek them out.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 2, 2019 15:13:06 GMT -5
For Canadian folks, it’s airing on CityTV, if you’re interested.
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Post by Scooterdust on Apr 2, 2019 15:56:27 GMT -5
After watching the first two episodes, "The Comedian" and the aptly updated remake, "Nightmare at 30000 Feet," I'm left with some unusual feelings. The episodes themselves are littered with easter eggs to episodes from the Serling era, as well as nods to horror/thriller films. {Spoiler} The Comedian is an episode I'm on the fence, because it was well done, and because it was such a kick in the teeth, as it takes a character who seemingly wants success on his own terms, and then makes a "semantic" deal with the devil when it doesn't go his way, and it puts him through the ringer in every way possible, and then the only way out is for him to use that success on himself, blinking himself out of existence, after which everyone who was taken out of existence by him returns, only for the implication that the next comic would follow the same pattern, as we see the main character has become part of the painting of audience members straight out of the Shining (by the way, try and catch the audience paintings throughout the episode, and look at their noses; I guess beauty is really in the "Eye of the Beholder"). It feels like the moral of the story was muddled, but the story was told beautifully.
As for Nightmare, it is an innovative update on the classic tale, as it turns into a story about paranoia, and having the answers to prevent a tragedy in your pocket (the podcast voice is actually Dan Carlin of Hardcore History), and it turns out to be the tools to set the tragedy in motion. A interesting twist, if not predictable. With Adam Scott's character the only one conscious among the unconscious passengers, with "Fly Me To The Moon" playing while the actual hijacker thanks him for helping, it would have been a decent "oh shazbot" kind of ending....but WAIT...there's more...as Adam Scott wakes up, washed up on a rocky beach, plane wreckage smoldering behind him (and a nod to the gremlin in the original episode next to him), and revels in his survival for a moment before listening to the final part of the podcast; updating us on the strange phenom that ALL THE PASSENGERS SURVIVED....except for one...Adam Scott's character....then he spots all the passengers and crew coming toward him as a mob, blaming him for the wreck, and they close in on him as he pleads that he was the only one that tried to do anything to stop it, and Jordan Peele, who is absolutely fabulous in the Serling role, picks up the mp3 player, reminding us that the road to hell is paved with good intentions (as the camera pulls out to reveal the mob beating Adam Scott to death), and it includes a stop over...in the Twilight Zone.
I'm not sure what to think...it drops the jaw while at the same time leaving you wondering why they went the way they did. Future episodes will determine if this iteration can finally be up to snuff as the original...although whomever convinced Jordan Peele to host like Rod Serling when he had mixed feelings about doing Rod Serling justice did the right thing.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 2, 2019 15:59:58 GMT -5
My favorite thing about the OG Twlight Zone was how Serling wouldn’t put his cigarette out to do his 45 or so seconds on screen. Of course, he’s dead now.
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Post by brown bricks on Apr 3, 2019 10:01:26 GMT -5
I thought the first episode was... okay? A little boring, but not awful. Not great either.
I've heard the second episode is much better, which I hope turns out to be true.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Apr 3, 2019 19:17:04 GMT -5
Just watched the first episode. It was fine, but the story didn't justify the episode length. It was a 55-minute story that could've been told in half of that time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 21:41:07 GMT -5
Just watched the first episode. It was fine, but the story didn't justify the episode length. It was a 55-minute story that could've been told in half of that time. Sounds like a perfect emulation of season 4 of the original series.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Apr 4, 2019 12:53:05 GMT -5
The first episode didn’t really grab me. I get what they were going for but it felt kind of meh. The second episode was much better. I was hanging on waiting to see what would happen next. It’s beautifully shot. It feels like a movie. There’s obviously a lot of thought and care put into this. I’ll be watching.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 15:18:04 GMT -5
First episode kind of sucked; there definitely wasn't enough meat to the plot to justify the hour long run time. It introduced me to the fine Diarra Kilpatrick, though. That was a plus.
Glad to hear the second one is better. If it's not uploaded to YouTube I'll be waiting until they're all on that CBS app and using the free trial to binge them. They couldn't have found a better platform to air this?
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