The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling’s offbeat science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone, channelled the dark side of the 1950s, when Americans “stood dazed in a no-longer-recognizable world, flooded with strange new technologies, vastly expansionist corporate or federal jurisdictions, and once-unfathomable ideologies”. It was, in its way, “a realist television show that was simply the first to grasp that life itself is outlandish, more horrific and strange than a million Martian landscapes.” 

Excerpted by The Browser from J.W. McCormack’s review of ‘The Twilight Zone’ in the New York Review of Books, 2018; Photo of Burgess Meredith in “Time Enough at Last” from 1959

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