newpony
Rod Serling must have been spinning over 1000 times in his grave after what was done to his beloved series. Why can't people simply leave a classic TV series alone instead of trying to bring it back years later and ruining what was good about it in the first place? They screwed around with it in the 80s and barely tweaked out a handful of watchable episodes. That wasn't tragic enough. They had to mess around with it again 20 years later. I'm surprised that Forrest Whittaker even took part in this joke of a series. I don't get it. All of these kids who graduate from colleges and universities with degrees in movie production and direction and whatever else they spend thousand of dollars learning can't come up with something new and original? Are they that unimaginative, lazy and/or stupid. Try to come up with your own ideas instead of stealing from the geniuses before you. I could figure out every original episode from the 60s that they stole from to make the most poorly redone stories imaginable.
hoju_31
I really wanted to like this, but it's just so poorly done. It is done in a similar way as the (far superior) Outer Limits but missed virtually all key parts. Firstly, the "twist" endings could be seen from miles away. Secondly, the episodes were too short to be effective. Finally, key necessary explanations were omitted. A perfect example of these was the episode where the woman had bandages on her face. A toddler would have realized within minutes that the staff were the freaks (it wouldn't show their faces until the end) and the woman was the normal one. Did they really think they were fooling anyone? At the end, Forrest Whittaker says, "Why were the ugly ones considered normal and the beautiful ones the minority? It doesn't matter". Bull sh*t it doesn't matter! You can't just gloss over key plot points because you're too lazy to provide even the slightest bit of explanation. I'm all for forcing the viewer to use his or her imagination but this is just too much. The episode "How much do you love you kid?" was the worst thing ever. I get that these things take place in "The Twilight Zone" but give me something, anything, that can make these scenarios even the slightest bit plausible? I don't know, say a wizard did it or something. Anyway, if it wasn't bad enough, she just murders her own husband at the end and right afterward, seems surprised that it happened. I get that you're p*ssed at the guy, but who does that?
tns1785
Overall the series was enjoyable. There were one or two weak episodes, but generally the twists at the end were not always that predictable. Production values were pretty good. I think the stories improved as the season progressed. However, I really think that Forest Whitaker was the wrong person to be introducing and summarizing each episode. Rod Serling was a stylish commentator, so he got away with walking into the frame every week. But Whitaker comes across as an intruder. He really shouldn't be there at all. He's not physically attractive and he's obese. He's probably one of the main reasons why the series didn't make it past the first season. A voice-over narration similar to the new Outer Limits series would have probably worked better, using a more compelling narrator.
nlstock
This 2002 version of The Twilight Zone has been advertised as "with today's hippest young stars". Well,that just about sums up this travesty because The Twilight Zone is not supposed to be MTV. This 2002 version starts off with a rock music theme and then goes downhill from there. I have not seen one good episode. The original and much better versions of The Twilight Zone made from 1959-1965(and also from 1985-1987)had scripts written by science fiction writers and had all sorts of stories. This dreadful 2002 version does not and just has doom and gloom stories that are not very well written or very well produced. I note that some of the people that were responsible for making the new version of the Outer Limits into a soft-core porn show were also involved in this awful 2002 version of the Twilight Zone. They have no idea of story at all. They should be kept away from classic TV shows before they ruin any more.