Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

a man in his 40s. See him sitting at his computer writing yet another review for Amazon.com. Smart, educated, funny. He is the kind of man that men envy and women want to be with. There's just one thing, though, tonight this man will find out he lives in the Twilight Zone... This show was absolutely fantastic. The writing, the acting, the production value, everything about this show was/is/and will always be perfect. You couldn't make a show like this now. It has too much depth, too much insight, too much actual truth in it for the networks to handle. It seems as though television's motto today is, "Keep 'em numb, keep 'em dumb". Yeah, there are a few good shows that actually have some intelligence to them, but nothing packs a punch like the original Twilight Zone. The beauty of Serling and his collaborator's writing was that it was tight and yet sparse. They didn't spell everything out for you. They assumed you had a brain and that you were capable enough to use it. In fact, a lot of the stories that were on the "creepy side" were not about the things you didn't know, but the things you thought you did. I mean, who would've guess that To serve Man was actually a cookbook? I used to really look forward to Thanksgiving Day...no, not because of the dried out old bird with the runny gray stuff oozing out of it that my aunt insisted was turkey and stuffing, but the annual Twilight Zone marathon. Every year on the Los Angeles station, KTLA, channel 5 they had a morning till night Twilight Zone marathon with the top five being in the latter part of the marathon. No matter how many times I saw certain episodes, they still gave me the "wooly bumps". Like for instance, Terror at 20,000 feet. A young Bill Shatner sees a monster doing some rather destructive things to the wing of the airplane he is flying on. They told him it was all in his mind. They insinuated he was going crazy. They deboard the plane and there is a shot of the airplane wing with damage done to it....ooooo...I still get a little freaked out thinking about it. You want to talk about irony? Oh, the Twilight Zone delivers over and over again with "everyone's favorite", Time Enough, At Last; All Burgess Meredith wants to do is read. Nobody can understand his compulsion to want to read. Mmmm...maybe he wants to escape his nagging wife, his dimwitted boss, his small-minded fellow employees. So he goes into the bank vault on his lunch break to read his books, when he comes out, a disaster has happened...or has it? The world has been hit by a nuclear bomb and the only one remaining is Burgess Meredith. Finally, he has all the time in the world to read his books. He reaches over for one of his books and he drops his glasses and they crack. Oh, man...it was sad then and it is sad now just writing it. Irony: it's a twisted thing. This is a beautiful collection and everyone Twilight Zone fan should own it. Yeah, something "even better" will probably come out later on, production companies tend to do this to make another buck, but I am very happy with this collection. You also get a little documentary on Rod serling, himself. The guy was a genius. He passed away in 1975 and television has never been the same since. It's not that "they" can't make shows like this, anymore, it's that they won't. And as much as I am a fan of Lost, sometimes I feel that even the writers of the show don't exactly know where they are going with it... "Let me take one more hit, dude, and then I'll write this week's show.....uhhh...what show am I writing for again?" But with the Twilight Zone, you always knew you were headed for something creepy, something strange, something to bring you back into touch with the sweet, strange mysteries of life itself... Peace & Blessings