Oh, Edward Andrews is a wonder. He did some great Thriller episodes, as I've noted before. Here he's given the task of playing a truly horrible human being - in fact one of the pleasures of the deeply flawed script is that this time we can be sure the cruel fate will be richly deserved - he conveys the aspect of the…

Donnie Darko did have a feel of taking place in the Twilight Zone, or something like it. It's quite possible that on some level there was an influence.

I actually like your interpretation. It puts the original ending in a more magical realist light.

That's assuming the ghost was real. It's easy enough to read it as Forstmann having a hallucination and deciding in the middle of it that he wasn't ready to die.

Hmm. June Foray was a national treasure as an animation voice actress, but maybe not a natural for voicing children. I'm looking forward to this one with interest, but I'm prepared for it not to be good.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen "The Bewitchin' Pool", so I'll be coming to that one fresh, as it were. I do remember in Zicree's Twilight Zone book Hamner was quoted as saying that he basically thought country and small town people were better than big city folk. It's not a philosophy that I have a lot of patience…

I do love Wynn in this . He's a comedian and in large part it's a comedic episode, but his performance is deeply felt, too. It hits home how much of his life has been taken away - obviously he was married at some point - which makes it easier to understand how the clock got to mean so much to him.

The original ending of "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" sounds kind of bleak. I mean, if you don't like the idea of the old man's life being tied to the clock being wound up, it's hard to enjoy the thought of his great grandson being similarly bound. Wonder what other directions they could have taken the story.

"Ring a Ding Girl" is another TZ that picks up some eerie resonance from real life. Maggie McNamara, who plays Bunny, was a rising starlet in the early fifties. Sometime around the middle of the decade she had a nervous breakdown - the circumstances of which are a little murky - and stopped getting work. Then in…

Ah, the drunks. It's been a spell since i saw that one. Looking forward to reviewing which way their marriage was awful.

Yeah, Telly's character was far from the right husband/father for that family.

You pretty much hit it on the head here. The real problem with Serling as a scriptwriter here was that he had been jerked around too much. TZ had already been cancelled once by this point. An episode like this one could have possibly been saved, or it could have been discarded in favor of something better, but…

On some level Serling might have been aware that the racial politics of "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms" weren't great. The captain of the outfit points out that any Indians they meet are more likely to be geologists than enemy warriors. (As is obvious, if they met Native Americans who were soldiers, those would…

Yeah, "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" sucks pretty bad. Watching it before "The 7th" made the other episode seem like a comparative masterpiece. If I wanted to hear a decrepit millionaire bitch about ungrateful trophy wives I'd follow Trump's twitter feed and filter out the Obama stuff. It doesn't really…

Seems to basically be riding Beck Bennett's coattails. In other news, Beck Bennett has coattails.

I'm pretty sure Lorne has talked about hiring new people as well. Maybe not as many, though, since this past year we basically had Overpopulation Part 2 (Part one being circa 92-94). If the four whose departures have been announced so far are the only ones leaving, I'd expect to see two newbies in the fall, maybe…

Black people say "adorkabizzle" right?

I'm disappointed but not really surprised. Judging from his solo work and the stuff he's done with Serious Lunch I'd say Milhiser was one of the two most talented people the show hired last year, the other being Zamata. The writers apparently didn't want to know, though.

Elizabeth Montgomery was great in "Two", and it shows how underrated an actress she was. It also helped that while her character didn't speak English, they just let her show intelligence and desperation on her face. The Eve in this story has a kind of cutesy, Nordic "Nell" thing going on that's just off-putting.

I'm going to miss Todd because, well, there are many reasons to miss him. But I've never had any reason to doubt Zack. These are personal reactions, though.