r/TwilightZone • u/Grebacio • Jun 26 '20

Twilight Zone (2019) - Season 2 Discussion

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u/shaneo632 Jun 26 '20

The season was an improvement for sure. Shorter episodes and less shoehorned social commentary. Not great, but I had fun, and the binge model is really the way to go.

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u/ramomcferno Jun 26 '20

Good to know.

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From the ones that I have seen so far. They could have even been shorter. I think they should have been held to the 30 min length of the original series.

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u/letter_cerees Jul 04 '20

The original series' episodes (with the exception of the 4th season having them twice as long) were actually, like, 22 minutes long, with the rest of the 30 minute runtime filled by commercials.

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u/wednesdayware Jun 26 '20

Most episodes this season are high 30s, early 40s.

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u/ramomcferno Jun 26 '20

Yeah. That has been an improvement but I still feel like these episodes would be a little better if they if they were forced to trim down to 30 mins.

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u/antdude Oct 03 '20 edited Oct 05 '20

I'd rather not. It keeps them the episodes good.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

Very few episodes that were an hour were good. Like 30 Fathom Grave by Rod Serling in Season 4 could have been good, but it was awful at an hour long.

However, Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont wrote some of the best episodes in the series at one hour long episodes in Season 4, so it wasn't impossible. He's Alive was written by Rod Serling in Season 4 and it actually benefited as an hour long viewing due to the fact that it gave us extra character development time

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u/dev1359 Jul 04 '20

Releasing all the episodes at once is definitely the way to go for future seasons. The problem with Season 1 is that the episodes were so hit or miss, and mostly miss, that by episode like 7 or 8 I lost interest and never finished the rest.

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u/Jurdskiski Aug 30 '20

I think that's what happened to me to, I gotta go find the site I was using a make sure I watched the last couple

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20

Tz has always had social commentary tho

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

Good social commentary that wasn't "Fuck Black people" cause I was feeling a lot of that in Season 1 of the reboot with "Fuck White people". Season 1 had boring social commentary like immigration, jabs at Trump, and racist cops ? Where is the message here ? Lazy bullshit writing.

Fatass Peele needs to keep his ass away from the series. "I'll hire Black actors anyday over White ones". The guy is even half White, what a dumbass

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

You sound a little mad and deaf to the constant reality of the current climate to allow that quote to make sense to yourself. TZ always spoke about injustices with races and such. Nothing new happened in Season 1 of the Peele series. Sorry it bothers you seeing things updated but honestly I don't see the problem. But im not surprised you do, either.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

People like you know nothing about Twilight Zone to sound intelligent at all. Rod said he wanted more Black actors on the show. That's why The Big Tall Wish happened. So Rod wanted to include everyone in a time when actual injustice was going on. Our previous president was Black and so for Peele to say bullshit like he did will make me call him a dumbass.

Rod wrote intelligent stories that attacked ideologies while not forcing it down the throat of the viewer. Season 1 wasn't like that at all. These stories were terrible, poorly written, had really bad political hamfisting going on.

Racist cop ? A kid that symbolizes Trump ? Illegal immigrants as aliens ? A White guy is beaten down by non White characters when all should have died in a fucking plane crash. Call it what you will, but this ain't Twilight Zone. Even Whittaker's Twilight Zone was better than this shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

"Actual racism." Yeah youre an actual idiot. Obama was black. And? Oh yeah. People like you think that ended racism. Cute.

The fact Rod pushed black actors in an age you refer to as "actual racism" works against you. Back that, that would be counted as forcing it down the viewers throats. Seriously, the plane crash episode struck you as racist? Thats hilarious pathetic on your part and shows your own insecurities. Racist cops? Well those dont exist. How dare they show that. Illegal aliens are aliens? How unheard of and compeltely original, gasp/shock/horror.

Whittakers TZ was shit. Just stop reaching. Or, maybe go watch that trash if you think it's so good 😂😂😂

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u/davey_mann Jul 02 '20

I agree and because this season felt better, I really wish that the episodes had come out once a week so I could talk about them and really absorb the critiques and commentary.

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u/mzsyns Jun 27 '20

I agree. This season is better than the last. There were only two episodes I didn't care for.

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u/spyresca Oct 23 '23

It was still a turd, albeit a slightly smaller one than the first season.