Watch the first full trailer for Jordan Peele’s surreal Twilight Zone reboot

The Verge ^ | February 21, 2019 | Andrew Liptak

[GOPsterinMA]

I’ve only seen B& W episodes of “Combat”.

Christopher George: RIP. BIG time GOP. Also was Vanna White’s Uncle.

[EveningStar]

CBS All Access is $5.99 per month with commercials, $9.99 without commercials.

[VietVet]

What made the original “Twilight Zone” so good was the writing. Where will they find writers of that caliber today?

[Fresh Wind]

What’s important is how many people of color and how many LGBTQ people will be in the cast, and how many white males will be made to look like weak, bumbling fools.

The plot is secondary.

[PapaBear3625]

For almost as much as Netflix, and not better offerings, I think a lot of people will take a pass on that, and stay with Netflix and Amazon Prime

[skams19]

My 80 + year old Aunt has CNN on at her home 24/7. She hates Trump and believes everything spewed out.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"What made the original “Twilight Zone” so good was the writing. Where will they find writers of that caliber today?"

I'd say six feet under.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Should get rid of her tv. All that hate and ignorance is going to earn her a one-way ticket to hell.

[Impy]

I would surmise they will change the story a little with some “twist”, there’s no reason to do a remake.

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMark

[BillyBoy]

Sooo since I refuse to pay for CBS All Access and I didn't bother to torrent the episode, I missed the premiere of The Twilight Zone revival yesterday (BTW, doesn't April Fools Day seem like an odd date to use to premiere The Twilight Zone? It's a parody or a joke)

I clicked a couple spoiler-free reviews of the first two episodes, and the consensus seems to be "meh". The first episode, titled “The Comedian”, is about a comedian who "will do ANYTHING For A Laugh". Reviewers say the episode was decent but the main problem is the running time was an hour, which made the episode drag and people lose interest. Traditional Twilight Zone story segments are 30 minutes tops, though they did experiment with hour long episodes during the original Serling Twilight Zone's fourth season.

The second episode, "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet", is a "remake" in name only. There's a guy (played by Adam Scott) taking a plane trip, otherwise everything unfolds differently. One critic said the episode "is not even a reimagining of the original story". Not sure what that means, but it sounds like they just used the title of a "classic" episode for marketing purposes. And people though the ending (again, I read SPOILER FREE reviews, so I have no idea what the ending was) to be a disappointment. I'll read up on some additional reviews of later episodes before I decide whether the series is worth checking out.

At least from the first two episodes there doesn't seem to be any SJW agenda, but I'd expect better from Jordan Peele.

[BillyBoy]

Hmmm. I wonder if the whole show is like how the opening credits are. Just watched the credits sequence. The 2019 opening was underwhelming for me and just came across as a half-assed attempt to copy the 1950s opening with modern special effects. For comparison:

1959 TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYFyP8A2Mk

1983 movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tThZuANaYAw

1985 TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Znqt2b8CKQ

2002 TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtrJxOELr0

2019 TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZQfnFyelTBOQ15kmHSgEbdjzLMWzZpL7&time_continue=10&v=5SJCDmY38Bw

[NFHale]

Who the Hell is “Jordan Peele”???

[BillyBoy]

Google the movie “Get Out”.

[NFHale]

I remember the trailers for it.

All I need to know.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The first episode, titled “The Comedian”, is about a comedian who "will do ANYTHING For A Laugh"."

That sounds like a rip-off of a Rod Serling-penned 1971 "Night Gallery" episode ("Make Me Laugh") featuring the late, great Godfrey Cambridge. I just saw it recently.

[fieldmarshaldj]

He also did the comedy skit series, “Key & Peele” on Comedy Central (which as OK as it was, still didn’t hold a candle to Dave Chappelle).

[dfwgator]

He also did the comedy skit series, “Key & Peele” on Comedy Central

Magic Negro Fight, was a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfhB3Vj_G8

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow, that must’ve been an episode I missed. Funny stuff.

[BillyBoy]

On paper, Peele sounds like the perfect person to host a Twilight Zone revival. His films have a very Twilight Zone-ish feel to them, and liberals got annoyed at the film Get Out because the "evil white people" in the movie oppressing blacks were white LIBERALS (the types who pat themselves on the back for voting for Obama) rather than the traditional conservative racist white southerner stereotype. (sorry, spoilers there if you haven't seen the movie or the twist)

Of course, what sounds good on paper doesn't always work in reality, on paper Jackie Earle Haley was perfect casting for Freddy Kruger in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, but boy did that movie suck.

I've actually never seen Serling's OTHER series, Night Gallery, though I've seen all three previous versions of The Twilight Zone, plus the 1983 movie. Wouldn't surprise me if they "unofficially" ripped it off and hoped nobody noticed.

Part of the fun of an anthology series is every episode is different and unique, so its possible the 2019 Twilight Zone could still be decent, but my gut feeling is CBS All Access has neutered it.