I am embarking on a long voyage of discovery.\u00a0 And like most long voyages it will be a combination of rare moments of pleasure immersed in long stretches of boredom.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, I intend to review the whole Twilight Zone series in its original order.\u00a0 You will benefit from my suffering and will thereby know which episodes to skip, which to give a chance and which to view without fear of boredom.\u00a0 Greater love hath no blogger than this, \u00a0that he lay down his sanity for his readers.<\/p>\n
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Season 1<\/p>\n
Episode 1 \u2013 Where is Everybody?<\/p>\n
Earl Holliman (the guy who played the cook on Forbidden Planet) is a man wandering around a town that seems to have had people in it immediately before but now is completely empty.\u00a0 He finds fresh coffee, lit cigarettes and running machines but no people.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s supposed to be mysterious and claustrophobic but mostly it\u2019s just boring and annoying.\u00a0 At the end we find out he\u2019s an astronaut in an isolation chamber hallucinating.\u00a0 This is preparation for a future moon mission.\u00a0 Granted this was made in 1959 and Sputnik launched in 1957.\u00a0 That means the Space Race was all the rage.\u00a0 So maybe this seemed more interesting back then.\u00a0 But honestly, it\u2019s really dull.\u00a0 This was the first episode of the whole series.\u00a0 The fact that they would lead with this should have been a warning to viewers of what was to come.\u00a0 Not a very auspicious beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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