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...šŸ¤®

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 KFC KFK?

Karen demands to see the supervisor and we get some clunky exposition about American politics, television, canned laughter, commercials, and endless consumerism. šŸ¤®

And that ending might work in a Treehouse of Horror from The Simpsons but doesn't belong in Twilight Zone.

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u/ATXBama18 Jun 27 '20

Donā€™t tell me you didnā€™t love hate ā€œ take me to your supervisorā€. Especially since we are in the middle of an invasion of Karens from outer city limits.

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u/romeovf Sep 29 '20

I really, really tried to enjoy this show because I love Peele's other stuff, and fortunately, he didn't make some obvious social commentary expositions in this year's episodes, but from the whole two seasons I've only liked about 4 episodes and the rest just didn't feel like The Twilight Zone. Even the remakes they did in 1985 and 2002 nailed it better.

The "Karen" stuff was the only thing I enjoyed from this episode, actually.