Sitis Review

The science fiction anthology  The Twilight Zone  has returned to television,  CBS All Access ' streaming service. Originally aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone has been revived twice, and this is the third attempt to recreate the magic of the original series. We'll be reviewing the first season. Today, the seventh episode, "Not All Men." Mark Twain once said the essence of good writing is a simple story well-told. That's what I thought about the episode "Not All Men," and it's probably my favorite of the new series so far. It does what the original Twilight Zone did, which is tackling a social problem through a sci-fi lens, allowing you to see it from a new perspective. For instance, Cold War paranoia was filtered through the lens of an alien invasion in "The Monsters Are Due On Mulberry Street." With "Not All Men," we get a story about women and toxic masculinity. The story follows Annie (Taissa Farmiga) who works in a small-town...

The science fiction anthology  The Twilight Zone  has returned to television, technically  CBS All Access ' streaming service. Originally aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone has been revived twice, and this is the third attempt to recreate the magic of the original series. We'll be reviewing the first season. "Six Degrees of Freedom" is a classic Twilight Zone story, and that's the problem. When you think "Twilight Zone," you think twist endings. However, twist endings are hard to do, partly because it's tough to keep the audience from seeing the ending coming, but also because we've seen so many twist endings before. "Six Degrees" fails on both counts. Twilight Zone  has an uphill battle to begin with because we've come to expect twist endings from it, which makes "Six Degrees" even worse. I'm not going to spoil the ending in this review, but I feel like just giving you the premise might do it already. The episode start...

The science fiction anthology  The Twilight Zone  has returned to television, technically  CBS All Access ' streaming service. Originally aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone has been revived twice, and this is the third attempt to recreate the magic of the original series. We'll be reviewing the first season. NOTE: I skipped over "A Traveler" to watch "The Wunderkind," so the "Traveler" review will come later on. In "The Wunderkind," Raff Hanks (John Cho) is a campaign manager who was disgraced when he failed to get the President re-elected, but he gets an idea as crazy as it is ingenious. An eleven-year-old YouTube star Oliver Foley has announced he's running for President, and Hanks decides to make him a real candidate. While everyone thinks it's a joke (including Oliver), Hanks pulls some strings and turns the young boy into a sensation. Hanks just plans to use the campaign to get back in the news, but to his horror, the boy wins ...