The new Twilight Zone revival can't find any consistency in its stories via nparts
I want to like the new Twilight Zone revival. The Jordan Peele-led show gets so much right: solid production value and a diverse cast of top-shelf talent. But all of that can’t save the show if the writers can’t solve their major problem: the plots just aren’t very good.
There is so much in the zeitgeist today calling out for a similar treatment. But the new Twilight Zone has yet to have an episode that approaches this level of contemporary sophistication. Nor does it seem to be heading in the right direction. It’s the third episode that represents the real disappointment, however. It is, hands down, the best of the bunch — for the first 45 minutes. The plot revolves around a likeable, law-abiding black mother and son, on a road trip to his first day of college. An encounter with a bigoted cop ends tragically for the son, but the mother finds herself locked in a time loop. She is capable of restarting the encounter from the beginning, over and over.
There’s a brief coda to the episode, that implies that perhaps the tragedy was only deferred, not avoided. That’s unclear. What is clear is that after almost an hour of truly compelling television, the writers had no idea how to deliver a satisfying ending. It was a major let down.
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