Left turn! Host Craig suspends his plan to resume covering the first season of the classic Twilight Zone series to instead dive head-first into the first season of the brand new Twilight Zone series from Jordan Peele. This week he gazes suspiciously at the first two episodes (“The Comedian” and “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet”) and shares his knee-jerk reactions with little preparation or time to truly reflect in a meaningful fashion. Are the new episodes worth checking out? You’ll have to listen to get the full scoop.
“Neither Here Nor There (‘Really? Another Revision?’ Revision)” by Twin Loops
“You’re the Inspiration” by Chicago (from the album Chicago 17, copyright 1983 by Full Moon/Asylum/Warner Bros)
“Medulla Oblongata” by The Dust Brothers (from the Fight Club soundtrack, copyright 1999 by Restless Records)
“Someone Is Watching You” by Andrea Terrinoni (from the album Pulsating Mind: Dreamy Instrumentals and Soundtracks, copyright 2018 by Andrea Terrinoni)
“Unsettling Perspectives” by Andrea Terrinoni (from the album Cinematic Cues Volume 3: Dark Drama, copyright 2016 by Flipper Srl Edizioni Musicali)
“Gloom” by Andrea Terrinoni (from the album Lifeline: Contemporary Emotional Ambient, copyright 2016 by Deneb Records)
TWILIGHT ZONE MAIN TITLE AND END THEMES composed by Marius Constant, performed by Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts
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1 comment:
Hi, Craig –
Decades-long pal of mine invited me and my wife to his place to watch the first two 2019 Twilight Zones. His wife and mutual friends from Canada also gathered.
He’s known me long enough that he was able to watch some of Serling’s films with me while I was caretaking that archive. (He also supplied the film that was a source of stills from “Death Ship” for various outlets ranging from the TZ Magazine to the first couple editions of Marc Zicree’s tome.)
What I’m sayin’ is… he wanted the entertainment of seeing my reaction to the new shows.
Brutally, honestly, two thoughts:
1) They really should have hired some writers.
2) You leave so many Easter eggs around, they’ll stink up the room.
Brutal and honest because I want the show to be the best possible Twilight Zone there can be in 2019, with the freedoms unheard of in 1959 to ’64. I want to see people with passion and talent at work, as there was in 1959, and in 1985.
And I sure as hell didn’t see it in these two shows. There’s merely promise.
Oh, and this thought for you. For “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” – one of the few moments of fun I had was this realization: The gremlin wasn’t outside on the wing – it was inside the plane.
Best wishes!
Dave Jessup
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