THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF KILLANEY WOODS is one of those dumb comedy episodes of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE. It sees the drunken Irish members of a pub claiming to have seen leprechauns cavorting in the woods; when a gang gets together to go investigate they discover that the truth to the tale is extraterrestrial in origin. The episode is full of broad, over-laboured Irish accents and the humour is dreadful.
THE MISFORTUNE COOKIE is one of the more lively episodes of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE and it benefits greatly from a central performance by Elliott Gould. Gould plays a mean-spirited restaurant critic who soon sets his eyes on a Chinese restaurant; when he gives the place a scathing review he soon wishes he hasn't.
The story is a simple revenge-themed one, the usual format in which a horrid character ends up getting what they deserve. The production is fairly well done, but what makes it really special is Gould himself. He really gets into the spirit of the thing by playing a thoroughly slimy character; he seems to be having a ball and that rubs off on the viewer, too.
THE MISFORTUNE COOKIE is one of the more lively episodes of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE and it benefits greatly from a central performance by Elliott Gould. Gould plays a mean-spirited restaurant critic who soon sets his eyes on a Chinese restaurant; when he gives the place a scathing review he soon wishes he hasn't.
The story is a simple revenge-themed one, the usual format in which a horrid character ends up getting what they deserve. The production is fairly well done, but what makes it really special is Gould himself. He really gets into the spirit of the thing by playing a thoroughly slimy character; he seems to be having a ball and that rubs off on the viewer, too.