I used to watch Twilight Zone while grinding (Youtube used to have all the episodes).

Here's a thread I made with episode recommendations:

(Youtube links are all dead)

Classic Twilight Zone Prop Bet Episode

(Check the whole thread)

Thanks!

With very few exceptions (see thread) you only want the original series btw.

as you work your way through the original series, be prepared to utter "simpsons did it" a bunch of times. Treehouse of Horrors does twilight zone remakes pretty often.

great thread.

just watched the rewind episode so lol.
love how the dude has a device that will let him rewind time so he can see what happens and re-do stuff and instead of just going to the roulette table and winning insane amounts in very short amount of time, he sits down to grind away at mid-stakes poker 5 card draw game.

just shows to go ya that even when you give them a literal cheat code to the universe morons will still be morons.

the best part is he was so obsessed with beating the house!

Just today I thought about traveling in time for personal gain. I came to the conclusion that I wanted just 2 hours in the future so I would know which soccer games to bet on before they started, lol. (a guy in my city made a multiple bet of $3 and got $30k just this week)
Interesting that the reason for me to wanna watch the series is that I think I'll relate a lot to most of the episodes, they seem like things I think of at least once in a while.

pretty short sighted.
I imagine with the ability to time travel one could make infinitely more with the stock market.

I only remember two Twilight Zone episodes. One was about a guy who saw someone getting closer every time he looked in a mirror and the ending of another with a guy getting eaten alive by a buzzard. They both terrified me as a child. Might have been Tales From the Crypt though.

I like that one episode with the ironic twist at the end.

Remember that one where the guy wakes up in a strange town? Classic

Anyone see Berlin Station or Graves?

Billy Bob's character in Goliath seems like a watered down lawyer version of Bad Santa. I'm a little tepid on this so far. A little networky, lots of cliches.

I'm still watching for MPG, but episode 4 really sucked. The flashback scenes are painful/make the show way too whiney.

i hate the mom/family/agent arc, and the front office arc. but i love the baseball arc. i'm excited for them to make the playoffs!

Been binge watching the first season of Twilight Zone. I'm really surprised by the quality of things like photography, writing and acting.

I have a question about the hitchhiker ep: am I supposed to get any clues that Nan is dead the whole time or I should just forget all her interactions with living people?
Favorite eps so far are The Masks and Time Enough at Last.
I also feel like this show would've been a lot better if it were a 1 hour show. Some episodes seem to have great ideas but can't develop them well enough because of the time limit.

Season 4 switches to one hour episodes (that season only).

Self-contained half hour dramas used to be pretty common (Rat Patrol, Adam-12, Dragnet, Danger Man, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Green Hornet). Today they're limited to serials and/or dramedies (Nurse Jackie, Atlanta, Louie) IMO mostly for the reasons you cite. The increase in commercials doesn't help - you'll notice they're mostly on networks like HBO and Netflix without commercials.

Yeah, anyone telling you that the original version of The Twilight Zone is "lame" is someone whose opinion you should never trust about TV. No one working in the movie or film industries would ever say something that dumb. The reason it's been used in "hundreds" of TV shows is because everyone knows how great it was. And I'm sorry, no show other than maybe The Simpsons Halloween episode featuring the only happy thoughts kid has ever competed with what The Twilight Zone did (at least from what I've seen). Another great show is Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which was every bit as good as this show in the suspense/thriller/crime genres. I don't think that would hold nearly as well for modern viewers as The Twilight Zone, but there are many episodes in Alfred Hitchcock Presents that are, believe it or not, more effective than many great episodes of The Twilight Zone.

For the hitchhiker episode, I'm pretty sure she was having those interactions. The hitchhiker is death, but she kept ignoring him, and went about her own way being scared. When she called home and realized she was dead, that was when she embraced her fate and picked him up.

I think it's a play on the type of story that was told in season 2 of Fargo. The story was about someone who had been blown up by a mine. The person was essentially already dead, but didn't know it.

That Burgess Meredith episode is also one of my favorite ones, and it has probably one of the best endings I've ever seen for something like that. It's important to note that while there are certainly some weak episodes of the show, its quality largely holds (outside of the videotape episodes, which still usually had great story) from start to finish throughout its 156 episode run. The hour long episodes are all uniformly excellent from my memory, despite Serling not wanting to make the show be an hour long. Here's a little background on why it happened, and his thoughts about it from wikipedia:

So the genius, Serling, would disagree with you about it working better as an hour, even though your theory was proven in season 4, where all the episodes were great, despite them not wanting to lengthen them. I think his main issue was that he liked how The Twilight Zone stood out from other typical CBS shows at the time. By forcing the format to an hour, the show starts to fit much more into the Perry Mason style (even though he mentioned Desilu), which was a gritty crime drama/law procedural, removing a lot of its uniqueness.

I think I might have to watch some Twilight Zone now, nice sell everyone. I watched about half the episodes when I was a kid/teen (including a bunch during the NYE marathons) and liked most of them, some of them a lot, but haven't really revisited it since. I'm surprised no one has mentioned An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. I remember that being one of my favorites, and it surprised me at the time how much I liked it.

If you haven't already, you should all check out Black Mirror.

i only watched the first episode of goliath, but it was good

second episode was good too!! it was a little boring in the middle, but the end was great!

Just watched EP2. Now we are cooking.

BrainDead Cancelled, weirdest show ever. I was done after 1st episode.
American Gothic Cancelled, average show, I won't miss it.
MacGyver Picked up for Full Season. Really?
Kevin Can Wait Full Season, its ok, I like it better than the odd couple.
Bull Full Season, its a decent show.
Murder in the 1st Cancelled, It wasn't too bad.

MacGyver has the ratings to stay on Friday. And it has good DVR ratings. That's why.

Really liking Falling Water:

I had high hopes for this thinking it was going to be a modern Twilight Zone with story vignettes that wrap up in each episode but alas, they're gonna cliff hang us to death from episode to episode and probably season to season and thats where they've lost me (so far, but I could be pulled back in)