Every time they try to remake the Twilight Zone it falls way short of the original and just makes the original look even more impressive.

It's "Serling", not "Sterling".

Another thing about the original series is that there are episodes that are not scary or suspenseful at all, but are still parables. Like ‘One for the Angels’ or ‘Walking Distance’. The original series was truly an anthology because each episode could be completely different, but still feel connected.

The original twilight zone proves you can do much more with less.

Twilight Zone 2002 version gets to much hate. 2019 TZ was so horrible I'll take 2002 version over it any day and it's not even close.

Honestly if the show had the creativity of more complex themes i think it’d be pretty good esp with their budget, like if they rlly wanna shock people you’re gonna have to do better than “don’t be mean to immigrants” sry :/

People liked black mirror which is essentially the twilight zone without the politics

Mostly it’s the writing. The 1960 episodes were written by people that had actually lived lives during very hard times, WWII, the Great Depression. The 2019 episodes are written by young college educated people that have lived easy lives and get all their knowledge from social media. Hence the shallowness.

We need to go places we haven't been, or we don't know what is there. What is at the bottom of the ocean? What is at the center of a black hole? What would happen if we suddenly jumped universes, again and again. Is there a center to the universe? What if we are the forerunners of our universe? Is there a cap to how much fear a single person can feel? What if a person suddenly started going back in time? What if a person started seeing things in other spectrums of light? A complete world lying on top of our own, unseen? What if a colony ship start a long journey, but a faster than light ship is developed before it can reach its destination, and passes it by? What if there is ancient writing on a distant planet, in English?

I haven't watched it, but my mother and I were both big fans ofthe original twilight zone run. She was then pretty excited for the most recent iteration but she said it didn't understand the point of Twilight Zone and was too reliant on gore or blatant symbols of shock or fear. It wasn't subtle or thoughtful enough, if I remember her correctly.

When this version of the Twilight zone first came out I've never seen an episode of the original and after seeing rewind I thought the entirety of the Twilight Zone was another piece of overhyped fiction. I then watched a bit of the original... and then the entire run of the original quickly becoming one of my all time favourite shows. I feel you have forgotten a few key things as to why 2019 failed over the old version with the main thing not being preach fatigue but rather what is being talked about, how its being talked about and what issues they were tackling. The original Twilight Zone rarely tackled issues of the day and rather issues of people like addiction, difficult choices, dreams, death, and our fellow man and used a tool that's lost to our contemporary storytellers: Nuance. More often than not the reason why the twists of the old twilight zone episodes worked was because the story up to that point was nuanced enough that it functioned as a twist even if the twist is there being no twist at all. One of my favorite episodes of the original run was the out-dated man and the reason for this was simply that the twist was that it showed that one way or another a future like that is going to suck for everyone and what helped it was the characters themselves being multilayered and entertaining. in the 2019 twilight zone the characters and especially the threats they were facing was bland, unoriginal, and worst of all when it comes to something as timeless as the twilight zone, dated. I can't think of a better example of this than the episode rewind. In the episode a mother finds her cam corder has the ability to rewind time and everytime she does this the cop in the story behaves a little more suspiciously. Why is this? Is it because the message is about time and how no matter how much we want events to change the thing we should really be worried about is making sure its spent with our loved ones? Is it because the cop was actually a multi-dimensional ranger after the device for making too many new universes playing with the idea of the multiverse and how important our choices are? nope he's just a racist cop and all it took was a speech to get him to back off despite being shown in the episode to essentially be a terminator beforehand. The new twilight zone falls into a new common pitfall of new writers that think that there is no nuance to any issue and that the only issue that can be talked about are the ones that show tribe A being mean to tribe B giving it the complexity of a preschool book and all the nuance of a brick through a window with the message vandalism is bad written on it. There are issues that can universally effect people no matter race, gender, or statice. These are the issues that should have been focused on. One other thing you are incorrect with the idea that a message being too subtle is the reason why people won't change their minds, its the opposite. If you treat a person who disagrees with you on ANY topic like an idiot and/or inherently evil they aren't going to listen

The Twilight Zone is where Robert Pattinson's Career went through before The Lighthouse.

Why didn't they make it in black and white? I always felt like the visuals of the original add to the feeling of being in a strange alternate universe.

The show can end up creating more division to be hones. If im racist and on the tv i see a 1 hour show about how racists are pieces of trash with not a single good quality, please tell me in what party im going to end up with. The people that think im trash or other racists that accept me. You need to be extremly inteligent to create an argument that draws conversation instead of atacking the other band.

So basically you take a classic Tom and Jerry short, stretch it to 1 hour length and instead of adding new gags to fill the length of the episode you put in exposition to give context to why each of the gags are supposed to be funny.

Serling*

Random, but Rod Serling is handsome as f*ck!

It's Serling, not Sterling @ 4 seconds

I agree in most of your points, but Get Out is one of the preachiest movies I've ever seen, and I'm a PoC.

So technically the original show was “Woke” but it wasn’t too in your face, was better written, and shorter?

Great video! I was trying to figure out why the new TZ is so underwhelming, and I think you hit the nail on the head. Honestly, I think Black Mirror is a better TZ reboot than the actual one.

Twilight Zone 1959: Tells a story. Twilight Zone 2019: Tells the dominant political mainstream viewpoint.

This is a very good explanation of more than just the new Twilight Zone. Also tactfully spoken.

that prison scene from Get Out was the deleted original ending which i'm sure many aren't aware of.

The original twilight zone fcked me up sometimes like it was really good this new one just doesn't have the same feel idk why

There is another serious difference between this TZ and the original series: Serling was political, but not partisan. He addressed McCarthyism with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," but he was just as quick to address Marxism with "The Mirror" and "The Obsolete Man" (which references Stalin). Serling knew that ANY extreme of any sort, regardless of left or right on the political spectrum, could be dangerous. (BTW, Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series handled this the same way as well) The 2019 TZ fails in this regard. The politics are almost exclusively favorable to leftist ideas. "Not all Men" is basically a blind exercise in Misandry, and something Serling would not have approved of because of its "one-sidedness." This is beyond social commentary; it's flat out Riefenstahl-esque propaganda.

your definition of science fiction is ironically YOUR definition. Going on for five minutes about your definition of science fiction is boring.

I tried to watch a # of these and yes most of them were boring. The direction was also so overly artsy that it would make .M. Night Shyamalan jealous. It just didn't come together and yes the 1 hour run time hurt it in this case. Not a good show, but there were maybe 2 or 3 decent entries in two seasons. That isn't good.

Preach fatigue is correct. I don't want my escape media to preach at me.

apparently im the first person here from amanda's video?? king u gotta upload more this video is great !!!

9:55 it’s not that I don’t understand, it mainly an issue considering the wars that brought in refugees to Europe and US which shows how deteriorating and decayed these open border ideas are. I’m Hispanic but even I know the American system is benefited with lies and exploitation because of communities who are willing to do so. I do feel empathetic but it’s a multilayered topic that people outside of my community would be empathetic to. Talking about cages, yes it is evil but the same abandonment and later enslavement of foreign children is also a much more extreme evil. Coyotes transport humans in inhumane conditions to only scalp and even start human trafficking in a new level. It doesn’t help that people in my community have done more harm of our image than improve from it. There is a reason why I agree people should be developed into learning a country and not blindly step into one. Advantageous groups take children and turn them into dealers and low lives. We want immigrants to come in the country legally. If they go through illegal channels fine but they live a new life here not carry the old one. I know many friends who failed to follow that thought. I hope you understand and not label me as a wanna be whitey. I noticed how dismissive and racist these imbeciles on Twitter have gotten to be. It’s so hypocritical to think they care.

I haven’t seen it since it was released, but I remember liking the episode shown at 0:57. I finally ordered the Twilight Zone collection on Blu Ray, as it was on sale for a really good price on Amazon. I can’t wait for it to come today, it’s been a long time since I marathoned a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes.

1:41 which series/movie is that ?

Great video man, keep at it!!

This is a good video. Thank you!

Almost every episode of 2019 TZ was about having your status quo changed. That showed how little we had to fear in 2019. Both the 80s and 60s TZ were afraid of war. 2002 TZ's episodes were afraid of death. If Twilight Zone wants to come back, the real world needs to be terrifying. I guess were just not there right now.

The new version also looks washed out and ugly due to bad color grading.

Excellent analysis.

I thought season 2 was an improvement

The new TZ in super bad , watched first 3 episode's and won't be watching anymore .

It's Rod serling not sterling. So many people make that mistake

I did not watch this new twilight zone show and jugging by the clips and your great review I have not miss much.

Rod Sterling? Seriously?

Boring? I think that is nuts I really enjoyed these, mainly because they were not straight rehashes of the original.

Peele isn't as smart as he thinks he is either

The original is one of my favourite shows of all time . Only reboot that i thought decent was the 80s one. The episodes in 2019 show are too damn long. And too preachy

Did you quit KZfaq?

Great video.

Finally a great reviewer who’s logic and tastes I share, and he’s out for 8months

Hi guys, I have also done a review on the Twilight Zone (2019), check it out @

The new tells stories of todays time while the old tells the story of human nature overall can’t compete

Hope your making more videos.

Yo come back

I think the biggest problem of this twilight zone is that it’s two on the nose and too long. Most of the episodes I figured out where the plot was going in the first 20 minutes and then I realize they were still another 40 minutes to go. Once you know where it’s going, it’s not that interesting anymore. And even on a few occasions when they did, keep me wondering if usually wasn’ a good pay off. I mean look at the Donald Trump episode to see just how painfully obvious everything was.

you are 1000 percent Kitbosh

So...are you Swell’s editor? 😂

First, the episodes were too long. There's a reason why only the 4th season of the original had hour long episodes. Second. all of the episodes were too preachy. The original TZ had messages but was thought provoking. Serling clashed constantly with censors but delivered the message.

Did you just forget to mention the hour-long Serling Season 4 slugfests with only 2 or 3 classics?

came to say hi after seeing your channel on Amanda's video :3 pop off king

SERLING! ROD SERLING! there is no "t" in this man’s name! Stop calling him Sterling!

es aburrida y es una porqueria

1959: 22 minutes 2019: 39 minutes

I recognise your voice.

Another one where you nailed exactly what the problem is. I would argue that Jordan Peele's other tv production, "Lovecraft Country," suffers from a lot of the same problems. Two things: The original Twilight Zone went to being an hour during the fifth season. They quickly realized this was a mistake and went back to 30 mins the following season. The 1985 version is very underrated. There are two seasons and quite a few of them are extremely good.

Been there, done that.

I thought it was good

Maybe sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar but Jordan Peele’s movies and this show (whatever he calls it) try so hard to be symbolic and meaningful but underneath are all smoke. Preaching to the converted.

Jordon Peele thinks this is The Twilight Zone, But makes it like it's tales from the Crypt.

My cousin was excited for this 1 too I haven't seen it But what

60 years not 70

Was planning to watch this, but thank you for showing me I haven't missed out on anything, good video. I think that the biggest issue with quite many modern shows is the lack of subtlety. Similar issue was in Doctor Who series during the Chibnal era. The best life lesson/social commentary is the one the viewers figufe out themselves, the "Aha" moment when the episode ends, you put the pieces together and realize the message yourself. Stuffing moral lessons into the audiences face is not just boring, but also insulting, as if the writers were expecting a dumb audience and so they spoonfeed you the message. It's simmilar to how The Avatars story was full of two dimensional characters, guy A is clearly evil, guy B is clearly good, no background story explaining why they are on the side they are on, etc. You also have a good point about oversaturation of certain issues.

2000s and 80s did a good job imo. Fun fact: 2000s twilight zone intro song was played by nu metal band Korn.

This deserves WAY more views!

Serling effort there 🙄

sterling??? STERLING?!!??

Focused too much on being woke sadly

0:49 and that right there made me not want to watch it. Nothing has ever been made better by adding diversity for diversitys sake..

This episode is sexist!😡🤮🤢

Common jordan peele L

It's also Racist

Do you believe in patriarchy theory?🤔

I’m fine with social commentary and political linings. But why does everything have to a trite political taking point? The original Twilight Zone did this very well. See the S4 Nazi episode for instance.

You couldn't be more wrong when saying the force isnt important to star wars haha

With all due respect I'm defending this amazing remake. Most just don't get the intellectual experience here. It's amazing

No more WokeZone episodes

💀💀

Having Jordan Peele involved was the first clue this thing was going to fail hard.

By that definition of science ficiton, doesn't that mean Harry Potter is science fiction?

i think it is good the second season is really good

You're so right about veiling real world social issues with fiction stuff going over people's heads. People who anti-sjw will say social commentary is a thing modern sjws started 🤦🏽‍♀️

im sorry but saying star wars would be the same without the force tells me you have never played kotor 2 lol

watched your videos on Dresden Files... even though your editing skills are on point and you narration is good, but the video video itself was ridiculous i'm happy you did not make it as a youtuber.

The old twilight zone dealt with philosophy. The new one is just tiresome anti white propaganda

The lesson of the new Twilight Zone parable is WOKE, SJW, man-hating propaganda is unwatchable and insulting garbage.

This show is full of woke garbage

I thought it was okay. I thought every episode was connected. So… “aliens” were in control of the whole thing. Only one person made it out. “Neo” 😅 you could’ve seen it differently. Seeing a prop from previous episodes sometimes made me think of it that way.

Go woke go broke

Well, you're wrong because I thought it was great.

Easy because the real twilight zone fans is dead or into know show's

Also, remember how much more literate the original generation, writers and viewers, were. Our artifacts are almost entirely cinematic, not verbal, and so only very partially based on the continuous inner dialog of language.