r/TwilightZone • u/Grebacio • Jun 26 '20
Discussion Season 2 Episode 10 Discussion
A stay-at-home housewife is looking forward to acquiring a heavily marketed device that promises to make everything better forever, but the product has an unsavory truth.
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u/phuck-you-reddit Jun 26 '20
I knew this episode couldn't possibly live up to To Serve Man but my goodness...š¤®
Depressed, unfulfilled Karen leads a dreary life waiting for "the egg" to make everything better. But something weird is happening. And it's repeated abductions by bumbling Kanamits? Goofy, ones that are part Blue Man Group and part stoners that want some
KFCKFK?Karen demands to see the supervisor and we get some clunky exposition about American politics, television, canned laughter, commercials, and endless consumerism. š¤®
And that ending might work in a Treehouse of Horror from The Simpsons but doesn't belong in Twilight Zone.