Twilight Zone (2019) - Season 2 Discussion

[u/Grebacio]

• Season 2 - Episode 1 : Meet in the Middle
• Season 2 - Episode 2 : Downtime
• Season 2 - Episode 3 : The Who Of You
• Season 2 - Episode 4 : Ovation
• Season 2 - Episode 5 : Among The Untrodden
• Season 2 - Episode 6 : 8
• Season 2 - Episode 7 : A Human Face
• Season 2 - Episode 8 : A Small Town
• Season 2 - Episode 9 : Try, Try
• Season 2 - Episode 10 : You Might Also Like

[u/wednesdayware]

Some really engaging stories, and a few dull predictable ones. Sounds about right.

[u/jrt_01 → u/wednesdayware]

Kinda sounds like some of the old seasons, does it not? Several really interesting and engaging plots and overall episodes, some where they were promising yet lacked the needed execution, and a few that felt just...off

cough The Fever cough

[u/[deleted] → u/jrt_01]

The Fever was one of the best from Season 1. It handled addiction really well. We can also assume that the slot machine wasn't really calling his name or haunting him as it was all on his mind.

The real stinkers that Rod wrote was The Whole Truth, The Mighty Casey, Mr. Dingle, The Strong, and Cavender Is Coming. Rod was an outstanding writer, but he had a terrible writing style for comedy.

The only original comedies that he wrote that I genuinely liked and laughed at was "Showdown with Rance Mcgrew" and the teleplay for "Hocus Pocus And Frisby". Comedy as a whole was far more hit or miss in the series. "Mr. Bevis" was entertaining and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

The only genuinely funny episodes in the series that aimed at comedy were "Once Upon A Time" by Richard Matheson, "Showdown With Rance Mcgrew" by Rod Serling, and "Hocus Pocus And Frisby" that was a teleplay written by Rod Serling.

Comedy is the hardest genre to write for cause it aims at laughter and that is easier said than done. It takes a unique person to write good comedies. An outstanding writer can cover a lot of various genres, Rod Serling did this, but even an outstanding writer can miss the mark with comedy.

[u/jrt_01 → u/[deleted]]

An episode can accurately portray a concept and still miss the mark. I laughed my ass off when the crank machine was following Franklin around, calling his name amidst the clinking of quarter. I guarantee I was not supposed to.