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New version of The Twilight Zone to be on CBS All Access

I enjoyed "The Comedian" and I seem to be only person who didn't have a problem with the length. The only thing that bothered me was the repetitive nature of Samir's sets.

My favorite part of the episode was Amara Karan, who has been in a lot of great things, including Doctor Who, The Darjeeling Limited, and The Night Of. I've been a fan of hers for years and before Jodie Whitaker's casting, I wanted her to be The Thirteenth Doctor. I was pleasantly surprised when she showed up here because I had no idea she was set to appear.

Awesome Possum said:
Nightmare at 30,000 Feet was great, it was an interesting angle for a remake. Hearing Dan Carlin from Hardcore History did take me out of it. Great storytelling voice though.
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That didn't bother me because I'm not familiar with his work, but I can see how that would be distracting.

I actually thought it was Rob Lowe for a moment, as a great nod to Parks and Recreation.

Romulan_spy said:
Regarding the ending of "Nightmare at 30,000 ft",
was everybody actually dead and we were seeing an afterlife where the passengers beat Andy for what he did? It seems unlikely that everyone would have survived a crash landing that left the plane in pieces plus the passengers looked like zombies suggesting that they were already dead. But if they were really all alive then that would mean the suicidal pilot also survived. Why didn't the passengers go after him since he was the real culprit instead of Andy? I mean sure Andy played a key role in the crash since he gave the pilot the codes to get into the cockpit so it made total sense for the passengers to blame him but they should still go after the pilot since he was the one who actually crashed the plane.
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This bothered me as well. I think your solution as them as zombies in an afterlife/purgatory scenario makes the most sense. Plus, there's the fact that the podcast wasn't entirely truthful (see: the bird crashing into the engine) so it could've been lying about the fates of the passengers. Especially considering the sudden appearance of a second episode with the tagline "suddenly the flight has been discovered and some of the mysteries resolved!"

I'm going to have to chew on the ending more, but I loved the rest of the episode. I really enjoyed how it updated the basic premise of the original episode and changed the hows and whys Justin became so paranoid.
 
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I liked the appearance of the monster from Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet as a little stuffed animal at the end of the remake. With the dummy and the monster I wonder if each episode will feature an Easter Egg from the original.

How many episodes are in this season?
 
A review pointed out something that made me think: if he was so painfully unfunny, how is it possibile that he had a regular gig in what that seemed an upscale comedy club?
 
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Cutie McWhiskers said:
Let's see 'em remake the episode where the sexy human is called ugly by everyone else. And what direction they take it. But that one would be too easy.
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I don't want to see any remakes, but I hope they do a couple of off-the-wall episodes set in alternate worlds like that, and not just stories set in the present-day world.

Enterprise is Great said:
How many episodes are in this season?
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Ten, I think.
 
Enterprise is Great said:
I liked the appearance of the monster from Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet as a little stuffed animal at the end of the remake. With the dummy and the monster I wonder if each episode will feature an Easter Egg from the original.
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I loved that Easter Egg.

I also loved the Easter Egg for "The Comedian" at the beginning of the episode: At the airport shop, Samir is on the cover of a book on the top of the shelf where Justin gets the magazine.

I wonder if each episode will have some kind of tie back to the previous one, much like Black Mirror.
 
Before Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone was the touchstone of Sci-Fi anthology tv shows.

Now is the other way around. Virtually in every review that I read on the new TZ series there is a comparison with BM: "the new show is better/worse than Black Mirror".
 
That's unfortunate.

I didn't mean it that way. I was just reflecting on Black Mirror's tendency to sneak in Easter Eggs to previous episodes, something I don't think The Twilight Zone did (but correct me if I'm wrong).
 
Romulan_spy said:
I don't think it deserved a MA rating at all. There was no gore, violence, sex or nudity. It was only rated MA for language. I think it really illustrates how silly the rating system is. How can an episode of Discovery that features Klingon decapitations and nudity and a TZ episode where a character uses the f word both be rated MA? Makes no sense to me.
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They do usually add the letter codes after the rating, S=Sex, V=Violence, D=Dialogue, L=Language, so usually that will give you an idea of what to expect.
 
We watched "Nightmare..." this evening, liked the episode. Think it creeped out my 11 year old.

Any chance Discovery could steal Jordan Peele? He seems to get how to do a new version of a 60's icon.
 
Ok, perhaps I'm missing something here. I believed that the podcast made clear they didn't know why the incident had happened. Still the same podcast said that they had found the survivors (and I suppose the black box).

So, perhaps I got something wrong or just I don't have to overthink about it because "Welcome to the Twilight Zone, where everything is weird just for the sake of weirdness!!!"? (This is one of the reasons why I prefer Black Mirror)
 
Romulan_spy said:
Regarding the ending of "Nightmare at 30,000 ft",
was everybody actually dead and we were seeing an afterlife where the passengers beat Andy for what he did? It seems unlikely that everyone would have survived a crash landing that left the plane in pieces plus the passengers looked like zombies suggesting that they were already dead. But if they were really all alive then that would mean the suicidal pilot also survived. Why didn't the passengers go after him since he was the real culprit instead of Andy? I mean sure Andy played a key role in the crash since he gave the pilot the codes to get into the cockpit so it made total sense for the passengers to blame him but they should still go after the pilot since he was the one who actually crashed the plane.
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And how did they know he had given the codes to the pilot?
 
The only way I can make sense of "Nightmare at 30,000 ft" is that the episode is some kind of hallucination and Andy is an example of "unreliable narrator".
 
The other survivors killed him, so he wasn't found.

Either they buried him in the jungle so his remains were not found, or the other survivors killed and ate him, so that his remains were not found.

Everybody survived except (eventually) the fuckerer who downed the plane, so he was murdered hard and disposed of for downing the plane.
 
Skipper said:
And how did they know he had given the codes to the pilot?
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I don't think the passengers ever knew that he gave the codes to the pilot. But they did see his very odd public behavior of seemingly harassing various passengers and getting arrested by the air marshall. And someone probably saw him talk to the pilot right before the pilot went into the cabin and knocked out the crew. So there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that would have made the passengers distrust and blame him for the plane crash.
 
Romulan_spy said:
I don't think the passengers ever knew that he gave the codes to the pilot. But they did see his very odd public behavior of seemingly harassing various passengers and getting arrested by the air marshall. And someone probably saw him talk to the pilot right before the pilot went into the cabin and knocked out the crew. So there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that would have made the passengers distrust and blame him for the plane crash.
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It can be an explanation, still it's a little strange that the first thought of ALL the survivors of catastrophic air crash was to behave like a mindless horde of zombies
The final scene had a surreal feel which I don't know if we have to take literally.
 
Guy Gardener said:
The other survivors killed him, so he wasn't found.

Either they buried him in the jungle so his remains were not found, or the other survivors killed and ate him, so that his remains were not found.

Everybody survived except (eventually) the fuckerer who downed the plane, so he was murdered hard and disposed of for downing the plane.
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But the podcast clearly said that everyone survived, except the protagonist. So, they went on full zombie mode on Andy, whose culpability was circumstantial at best, and leaved alive the crazy pilot who materially crashed the airplane???

And by the way, I'm not sure that everyone on the plane knew what Andy did, but surely they saw the crazy pilot, thank to internal cameras.
 
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Like I said before, I don't trust the second episode of the podcast (and it was clearly a second episode) as a reliable narrator.

Also, I don't know why you guys keep calling him Andy. His name is Justin.
 
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