Every time they try to remake the Twilight Zone it falls way short of the original and just makes the original look even more impressive.

@robertroberts5283

2 ай бұрын

I really liked the 80s version. But the original is better

@robertporter6527

2 ай бұрын

It’s because they are! Not to mention the quality of the actors at that time in history.

@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork

21 күн бұрын

The run time of the new one doesn't help. Season 4 of the original showed why anything more than 25 minutes just doesn't work. Yes, there is occassionally one that does like Her Pilgrim Soul in the 80s version and Printer's Devil for Season 4, but those are a rarity.

It's "Serling", not "Sterling".

@backforblood3421

2 жыл бұрын

The show also didn't begin in 1950.

People liked black mirror which is essentially the twilight zone without the politics

@GaryIV

2 ай бұрын

S1E1 is about the prime minister of Great Britain fucking a swine. S1E2 is the most on-face metaphor for capitalism ever. The show gets explicitly political on numerous occasions.

@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork

21 күн бұрын

Twilight Zone has always been about politics. And Black Mirror is too.

@malasc12

15 күн бұрын

​@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetworkno it hasn't

@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork

15 күн бұрын

@@malasc12 Yes, it was. You clearly know nothing about The Twilight Zone if you think it was not a social commetary. The episode "Eye of the Beholder" is an episode about racism. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is about paranoia and the red scare. "I Am The Night - Color Me Black" is also about racism with the justice system. The whole reason Serling made the series was to make political statements that he wasn't allowed to do without it being behind a science fiction curtain.

@malasc12

15 күн бұрын

@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork that's 3 episodes out of hundreds. They're not always political

Honestly if the show had the creativity of more complex themes i think it’d be pretty good esp with their budget, like if they rlly wanna shock people you’re gonna have to do better than “don’t be mean to immigrants” sry :/

I haven't watched it, but my mother and I were both big fans ofthe original twilight zone run. She was then pretty excited for the most recent iteration but she said it didn't understand the point of Twilight Zone and was too reliant on gore or blatant symbols of shock or fear. It wasn't subtle or thoughtful enough, if I remember her correctly.

When this version of the Twilight zone first came out I've never seen an episode of the original and after seeing rewind I thought the entirety of the Twilight Zone was another piece of overhyped fiction. I then watched a bit of the original... and then the entire run of the original quickly becoming one of my all time favourite shows. I feel you have forgotten a few key things as to why 2019 failed over the old version with the main thing not being preach fatigue but rather what is being talked about, how its being talked about and what issues they were tackling. The original Twilight Zone rarely tackled issues of the day and rather issues of people like addiction, difficult choices, dreams, death, and our fellow man and used a tool that's lost to our contemporary storytellers: Nuance. More often than not the reason why the twists of the old twilight zone episodes worked was because the story up to that point was nuanced enough that it functioned as a twist even if the twist is there being no twist at all. One of my favorite episodes of the original run was the out-dated man and the reason for this was simply that the twist was that it showed that one way or another a future like that is going to suck for everyone and what helped it was the characters themselves being multilayered and entertaining. in the 2019 twilight zone the characters and especially the threats they were facing was bland, unoriginal, and worst of all when it comes to something as timeless as the twilight zone, dated. I can't think of a better example of this than the episode rewind. In the episode a mother finds her cam corder has the ability to rewind time and everytime she does this the cop in the story behaves a little more suspiciously. Why is this? Is it because the message is about time and how no matter how much we want events to change the thing we should really be worried about is making sure its spent with our loved ones? Is it because the cop was actually a multi-dimensional ranger after the device for making too many new universes playing with the idea of the multiverse and how important our choices are? nope he's just a racist cop and all it took was a speech to get him to back off despite being shown in the episode to essentially be a terminator beforehand. The new twilight zone falls into a new common pitfall of new writers that think that there is no nuance to any issue and that the only issue that can be talked about are the ones that show tribe A being mean to tribe B giving it the complexity of a preschool book and all the nuance of a brick through a window with the message vandalism is bad written on it. There are issues that can universally effect people no matter race, gender, or statice. These are the issues that should have been focused on. One other thing you are incorrect with the idea that a message being too subtle is the reason why people won't change their minds, its the opposite. If you treat a person who disagrees with you on ANY topic like an idiot and/or inherently evil they aren't going to listen

@ScoobyandShaggy5554

Жыл бұрын

Well said

The original twilight zone proves you can do much more with less.

We need to go places we haven't been, or we don't know what is there. What is at the bottom of the ocean? What is at the center of a black hole? What would happen if we suddenly jumped universes, again and again. Is there a center to the universe? What if we are the forerunners of our universe? Is there a cap to how much fear a single person can feel? What if a person suddenly started going back in time? What if a person started seeing things in other spectrums of light? A complete world lying on top of our own, unseen? What if a colony ship start a long journey, but a faster than light ship is developed before it can reach its destination, and passes it by? What if there is ancient writing on a distant planet, in English?

@chelseyt7091

3 ай бұрын

Those are all great ideas! 😌

Another thing about the original series is that there are episodes that are not scary or suspenseful at all, but are still parables. Like ‘One for the Angels’ or ‘Walking Distance’. The original series was truly an anthology because each episode could be completely different, but still feel connected.

Great video! I was trying to figure out why the new TZ is so underwhelming, and I think you hit the nail on the head. Honestly, I think Black Mirror is a better TZ reboot than the actual one.

@Hatsu220

Жыл бұрын

You obviously don't get how television works if it wasn't for TV shows like the Twilight Zone we wouldn't have TV shows like black mirror so your taste has no originality nor taste

@ycartyahoo

Жыл бұрын

I agree that Black Mirror is a better reboot of Twilight Zone

@mannperson324

11 ай бұрын

@@Hatsu220what is your dumbass talking about, learn to read before making a comment💀💀

Twilight Zone 2002 version gets to much hate. 2019 TZ was so horrible I'll take 2002 version over it any day and it's not even close.

@lifeisabadjoke5750

4 ай бұрын

2002 was pretty cool had a certain vibe to it. The 80s was bad to me and the original is just perfect even after all these years

The show can end up creating more division to be hones. If im racist and on the tv i see a 1 hour show about how racists are pieces of trash with not a single good quality, please tell me in what party im going to end up with. The people that think im trash or other racists that accept me. You need to be extremly inteligent to create an argument that draws conversation instead of atacking the other band.

your definition of science fiction is ironically YOUR definition. Going on for five minutes about your definition of science fiction is boring.

Random, but Rod Serling is handsome as f*ck!

@kristennelson3190

2 ай бұрын

He is!!!😍 I've always thought that, since I was much younger. Plus, he's intelligent, obviously creative, and extremely articulate - traits that I find extremely attractive!👍

So basically you take a classic Tom and Jerry short, stretch it to 1 hour length and instead of adding new gags to fill the length of the episode you put in exposition to give context to why each of the gags are supposed to be funny.

Why didn't they make it in black and white? I always felt like the visuals of the original add to the feeling of being in a strange alternate universe.

@nitorishogiplayer3465

2 жыл бұрын

While I agree that black n white creates a mood in the original, I think colour is considered a given for today's audience who may be put off by black n white visuals. I think that's one of the reasons why not more people today watch the original TZ, and other black n white shows/movies for that matter - some of the audience today just probably don't enjoy the aesthetic and think it looks "outdated" and therefore don't become interested.

@fatmilf1498

Жыл бұрын

Because we have color TV now

The Twilight Zone is where Robert Pattinson's Career went through before The Lighthouse.

So technically the original show was “Woke” but it wasn’t too in your face, was better written, and shorter?

@victornieves1794

3 жыл бұрын

Basically.

@dreamsof3dspace555

3 жыл бұрын

If by woke you mean the opposite of the 2019 version, yeah. The 2019 version is nothing but collectivist identity politics that would probably make Rod Serling puke. [See: The Obsolete Man] The guy was an individualist and it shows in his writing. You can see it in the subjects he lists in the video (prejudice, conformity, intolerance, censorship); they're all symptoms of collectivist ideologies. That's the real reason the 2019 version sucks. It's soulless ideological drivel.

@Cryo837

3 жыл бұрын

@@dreamsof3dspace555 Thanks you just saved me wasting my money.

@dreamsof3dspace555

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cryo837 No problem bro, unfortunately I sat through them all out of a kind of morbid curiosity and they got worse and worse.

@PalooknAleezMom

3 жыл бұрын

@@dreamsof3dspace555 well said!

I agree in most of your points, but Get Out is one of the preachiest movies I've ever seen, and I'm a PoC.

This is a very good explanation of more than just the new Twilight Zone. Also tactfully spoken.

It's Serling, not Sterling @ 4 seconds

that prison scene from Get Out was the deleted original ending which i'm sure many aren't aware of.

Serling*

Also, remember how much more literate the original generation, writers and viewers, were. Our artifacts are almost entirely cinematic, not verbal, and so only very partially based on the continuous inner dialog of language.

@newguy5672

2 жыл бұрын

Very well put

Twilight Zone 1959: Tells a story. Twilight Zone 2019: Tells the dominant political mainstream viewpoint.

@brianseay8242

2 жыл бұрын

And that's why the new Twilight Zone is canceled and isn't returning for Season 3 --- YAY!!! The 2019 Twilight Zone is a masterclass example of how NOT to do storytelling.

@alien777

Жыл бұрын

1959 explorse complext Themas that where not Explored jet 2019 Explorers themes that are already are sucked try

@KennyJ702

Жыл бұрын

​@@alien777 I'm rewatching the new series two episodes of the 2019 series felt like they could have been in the original 1958 show. The Small Town episode and The Who Of You episode were fantastic

The original twilight zone fcked me up sometimes like it was really good this new one just doesn't have the same feel idk why

Mostly it’s the writing. The 1960 episodes were written by people that had actually lived lives during very hard times, WWII, the Great Depression. The 2019 episodes are written by young college educated people that have lived easy lives and get all their knowledge from social media. Hence the shallowness.

I tried to watch a # of these and yes most of them were boring. The direction was also so overly artsy that it would make .M. Night Shyamalan jealous. It just didn't come together and yes the 1 hour run time hurt it in this case. Not a good show, but there were maybe 2 or 3 decent entries in two seasons. That isn't good.

Almost every episode of 2019 TZ was about having your status quo changed. That showed how little we had to fear in 2019. Both the 80s and 60s TZ were afraid of war. 2002 TZ's episodes were afraid of death. If Twilight Zone wants to come back, the real world needs to be terrifying. I guess were just not there right now.

Preach fatigue is correct. I don't want my escape media to preach at me.

@cannon9521

9 ай бұрын

Twilight zone isn’t escape media. It’s always dealt with social issues and always had a moral to the message

@Jose_Doe

2 ай бұрын

​@@cannon9521messages were way better cuz they were actually right and also entertaining and weird

Great video man, keep at it!!

I haven’t seen it since it was released, but I remember liking the episode shown at 0:57. I finally ordered the Twilight Zone collection on Blu Ray, as it was on sale for a really good price on Amazon. I can’t wait for it to come today, it’s been a long time since I marathoned a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes.

apparently im the first person here from amanda's video?? king u gotta upload more this video is great !!!

@autumnal777

3 жыл бұрын

right! i love these kind of review videos

@tacitcantos2005

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The new TZ in super bad , watched first 3 episode's and won't be watching anymore .

@yaboio2124

3 жыл бұрын

You can do whatever you want, but I recommend keeping an open mind

@parabot2

3 жыл бұрын

@@yaboio2124 i found it to be rubbish

@yaboio2124

3 жыл бұрын

parabot2 ok

@zelixleo5

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's not for me. Serling used to be subtle, Jordan Peele is not

@kyero8724

2 жыл бұрын

@@yaboio2124 Keeping a open mind to Peele's anti white bull shit? xD

9:55 it’s not that I don’t understand, it mainly an issue considering the wars that brought in refugees to Europe and US which shows how deteriorating and decayed these open border ideas are. I’m Hispanic but even I know the American system is benefited with lies and exploitation because of communities who are willing to do so. I do feel empathetic but it’s a multilayered topic that people outside of my community would be empathetic to. Talking about cages, yes it is evil but the same abandonment and later enslavement of foreign children is also a much more extreme evil. Coyotes transport humans in inhumane conditions to only scalp and even start human trafficking in a new level. It doesn’t help that people in my community have done more harm of our image than improve from it. There is a reason why I agree people should be developed into learning a country and not blindly step into one. Advantageous groups take children and turn them into dealers and low lives. We want immigrants to come in the country legally. If they go through illegal channels fine but they live a new life here not carry the old one. I know many friends who failed to follow that thought. I hope you understand and not label me as a wanna be whitey. I noticed how dismissive and racist these imbeciles on Twitter have gotten to be. It’s so hypocritical to think they care.

@hopelessent.1700

3 жыл бұрын

Hi we’re not in the old world new one mentality that colonists believed in. It’s disappointing to think our problems can simply be solved by running away. Humanity has gotten pessimistic to the idea of change that conformity has turned to a new norm. Especially on Twitter people touting statistics does little to understand community influence, state influence and eventually capital influence. It’s ludicrous to not factor those in to our society thinking it’s fine to just stuff people in infested cities. People should find a better opportunity but putting all that faith to the nearest country to even abandoning kids for a “better life” is a “greater good” but a moral evil. A better tomorrow is if people always test government than saying “I’ll leave to (insert country) when (insert leader) is elected into office”. Fight from home and hold accountable leaders who ruined countries with policies. Obrador and others under his wing are doing so with cartels liberally opening hearts and eating them while their victims live... I just can’t think why be defeated...

@weightlifting_socialist

2 жыл бұрын

The damage done by the previous administrations of the U.S. government is one reason why we have migration coming our way. It takes 10 years or more to become a citizen in this country. We could make that shorter but republicans don't want to fund social security, let alone anything to do with citizenship. The current centrist leaders of the Democrats don't do anything because of their owners much like the corporations who own the republicans as well. Both sides realize the need for cheap labor and thus allow illegal immigration to continue at its current rate. The problem I have is when people view most of these immigrants as invaders. The company you work for is invading your paycheck by taking 80-90% of your actual pay because they deserve it more but yet you complain about people coming from U.S. ravaged countries that past neo liberal neo conservative administrations did. If. Of course take out the criminal ones but legalize all the illegals here now, just like the worst president for the working and poor class did, Reagan.

There is another serious difference between this TZ and the original series: Serling was political, but not partisan. He addressed McCarthyism with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," but he was just as quick to address Marxism with "The Mirror" and "The Obsolete Man" (which references Stalin). Serling knew that ANY extreme of any sort, regardless of left or right on the political spectrum, could be dangerous. (BTW, Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series handled this the same way as well) The 2019 TZ fails in this regard. The politics are almost exclusively favorable to leftist ideas. "Not all Men" is basically a blind exercise in Misandry, and something Serling would not have approved of because of its "one-sidedness." This is beyond social commentary; it's flat out Riefenstahl-esque propaganda.

@fangsofthefenrir1349

Ай бұрын

Well said.

First, the episodes were too long. There's a reason why only the 4th season of the original had hour long episodes. Second. all of the episodes were too preachy. The original TZ had messages but was thought provoking. Serling clashed constantly with censors but delivered the message.

@robertporter6527

2 ай бұрын

The new ones are too long. 30 minutes was enough.

The original is one of my favourite shows of all time . Only reboot that i thought decent was the 80s one. The episodes in 2019 show are too damn long. And too preachy

This is a good video. Thank you!

Peele isn't as smart as he thinks he is either

Excellent analysis.

Jordon Peele thinks this is The Twilight Zone, But makes it like it's tales from the Crypt.

@alien777

Жыл бұрын

Tales from the crypt is supirior to enything peele did. Lamo

@mannperson324

11 ай бұрын

@@alien777objectively wrong, Get out is better

Boring? I think that is nuts I really enjoyed these, mainly because they were not straight rehashes of the original.

Finally a great reviewer who’s logic and tastes I share, and he’s out for 8months

The new tells stories of todays time while the old tells the story of human nature overall can’t compete

The new version also looks washed out and ugly due to bad color grading.

I did not watch this new twilight zone show and jugging by the clips and your great review I have not miss much.

1:41 which series/movie is that ?

I think the biggest problem of this twilight zone is that it’s two on the nose and too long. Most of the episodes I figured out where the plot was going in the first 20 minutes and then I realize they were still another 40 minutes to go. Once you know where it’s going, it’s not that interesting anymore. And even on a few occasions when they did, keep me wondering if usually wasn’ a good pay off. I mean look at the Donald Trump episode to see just how painfully obvious everything was.

SERLING! ROD SERLING! there is no "t" in this man’s name! Stop calling him Sterling!

I thought season 2 was an improvement

Great video.

It's Rod serling not sterling. So many people make that mistake

1959: 22 minutes 2019: 39 minutes

Rod Sterling? Seriously?

@dolphinsrr

Жыл бұрын

I know he keeps saying it wrong. But quite a few people say it that way. Smh

@mannperson324

11 ай бұрын

It quite literally doesn’t matter, you know what he’s taking about, everyone knows who he’s talking about, which means it’s a simple error that isn’t an issue

Maybe sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar but Jordan Peele’s movies and this show (whatever he calls it) try so hard to be symbolic and meaningful but underneath are all smoke. Preaching to the converted.

Hope your making more videos.

Another one where you nailed exactly what the problem is. I would argue that Jordan Peele's other tv production, "Lovecraft Country," suffers from a lot of the same problems. Two things: The original Twilight Zone went to being an hour during the fifth season. They quickly realized this was a mistake and went back to 30 mins the following season. The 1985 version is very underrated. There are two seasons and quite a few of them are extremely good.

you are 1000 percent Kitbosh

So...are you Swell’s editor? 😂

@tacitcantos2005

3 жыл бұрын

I am indeed, you have found the secret channel

2000s and 80s did a good job imo. Fun fact: 2000s twilight zone intro song was played by nu metal band Korn.

Did you quit KZread?

Been there, done that.

Hi guys, I have also done a review on the Twilight Zone (2019), check it out @

came to say hi after seeing your channel on Amanda's video :3 pop off king

Yo come back

es aburrida y es una porqueria

@lifeisabadjoke5750

2 жыл бұрын

Como tu

I recognise your voice.

I thought it was good

Did you just forget to mention the hour-long Serling Season 4 slugfests with only 2 or 3 classics?

This deserves WAY more views!

My cousin was excited for this 1 too I haven't seen it But what

60 years not 70

Was planning to watch this, but thank you for showing me I haven't missed out on anything, good video. I think that the biggest issue with quite many modern shows is the lack of subtlety. Similar issue was in Doctor Who series during the Chibnal era. The best life lesson/social commentary is the one the viewers figufe out themselves, the "Aha" moment when the episode ends, you put the pieces together and realize the message yourself. Stuffing moral lessons into the audiences face is not just boring, but also insulting, as if the writers were expecting a dumb audience and so they spoonfeed you the message. It's simmilar to how The Avatars story was full of two dimensional characters, guy A is clearly evil, guy B is clearly good, no background story explaining why they are on the side they are on, etc. You also have a good point about oversaturation of certain issues.

Focused too much on being woke sadly

sterling??? STERLING?!!??

@dolphinsrr

Жыл бұрын

😂

Serling effort there 🙄

This episode is sexist!😡🤮🤢

0:49 and that right there made me not want to watch it. Nothing has ever been made better by adding diversity for diversitys sake..

With all due respect I'm defending this amazing remake. Most just don't get the intellectual experience here. It's amazing

Common jordan peele L

No more WokeZone episodes

Having Jordan Peele involved was the first clue this thing was going to fail hard.

It's also Racist

I’m fine with social commentary and political linings. But why does everything have to a trite political taking point? The original Twilight Zone did this very well. See the S4 Nazi episode for instance.

You're so right about veiling real world social issues with fiction stuff going over people's heads. People who anti-sjw will say social commentary is a thing modern sjws started 🤦🏽‍♀️

You couldn't be more wrong when saying the force isnt important to star wars haha

i think it is good the second season is really good

The old twilight zone dealt with philosophy. The new one is just tiresome anti white propaganda

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Do you believe in patriarchy theory?🤔

By that definition of science ficiton, doesn't that mean Harry Potter is science fiction?

im sorry but saying star wars would be the same without the force tells me you have never played kotor 2 lol

watched your videos on Dresden Files... even though your editing skills are on point and you narration is good, but the video video itself was ridiculous i'm happy you did not make it as a youtuber.

@mannperson324

11 ай бұрын

You’re clearly just an asshole who doesn’t know what he’s talking about💀💀

I thought it was okay. I thought every episode was connected. So… “aliens” were in control of the whole thing. Only one person made it out. “Neo” 😅 you could’ve seen it differently. Seeing a prop from previous episodes sometimes made me think of it that way.

The lesson of the new Twilight Zone parable is WOKE, SJW, man-hating propaganda is unwatchable and insulting garbage.

Go woke go broke

Well, you're wrong because I thought it was great.

@mannperson324

11 ай бұрын

Bro doesn’t know what an opinion is💀💀

Easy because the real twilight zone fans is dead or into know show's

Yeah they really fcked up what could’ve been a modern day classic show. It’s the same disappointment I felt when anticipating American Horror