Blurryman
- Episode aired May 30, 2019
- TV-MA
- 37m
Sophie Gelson, a writer for The Twilight Zone (2019), is haunted by a mysterious figure.Sophie Gelson, a writer for The Twilight Zone (2019), is haunted by a mysterious figure.Sophie Gelson, a writer for The Twilight Zone (2019), is haunted by a mysterious figure.
- Rod Serling
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThere is a picture/sticker of Rod Serling on Sophie's laptop computer shortly after the discussion about how Serling used to appear in every episode "until now."
- Quotes
Rod Serling: [closing narration] What do we do when our world is turned upside down? When everything we thought to be true is ripped away and we're forced to face a new reality? Sophie Gelson has just awoken to the fact that when we put away childish things, we may be closing our eyes instead of opening them and that perhaps our only hope is to face our reality. A multitude of truths not shrinking from that vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X beyond imagination, but to embrace it. Top open ourselves to the unknown. Not the end of the story, but a new beginning for the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last (1959)
- SoundtracksWhen Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter
Performed by Sam & Dave
[plays on the jukebox]
Many have commented here on the reboot's political agenda and certainly a few of the episodes put polemic over thrills, I'm thinking particularly of the episodes with the racist policeman terrorising the black mother and her son, the one where an all-American housewife and mother was abducted from her family, the too-obvious Trump satire which puts a kid into the White House or the one where a form of man-rage in a small town apparently attributable to a meteorite storm turned out to be nothing of the kind. Some were just slow and boring like the sub-2001 episode about the tensions aboard a mission-to-Mars rocket crew, the series opener concerning an aspirant comedian whose act in the telling seems to edit out significant people in his life or the show featuring the arrival at Christmas time of a mysterious stranger at an Alaskan police station.
That really just leaves the ones that I did like such as the remake of the famous "Nightmare At 30000 Feet" episode starring Adam Scott, the Chris O'Dowd-starrer concerning a haunted gun and the series closer, a thoughtful, daring existential story within a story, which broke the fourth wall throughout and sought to link up the preceding episodes with an ominous-seeming "blurry-man" whose identity I guessed before the reveal. I also really liked the time-shifting premise of the "Replay" episode but as stated it overdid the right-on P.C. anti-racism message. It made me think of the Rosa Parks episode from the last Dr Who series which brilliantly and more daringly took on a similar subject.
I agree with others that few if any of these new episodes will live as long in the memory as many of those from the Serling era but i saw enough to persuade me to watch the second series which I see has now been commissioned.
- Lejink
- Oct 10, 2019
Details
- Runtime37 minutes