The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (1961)
Season 2, Episode 29
9/10
You're cheating your audience...You're not facing the cameras!
17 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Both Wordsworth and the Chancellor both used this title catch phrase but somehow when Wordsworth delivers it it is quite effective and shows that the tables have now been turned on the Chancellor. This episode is quite relevant today and any state or entity that does not allow a person to worship God is in fact harmful and obsolete.

Burgess Meredith was wonderful here especially in Act 2. He really gave as well as he got from the Chancellor and he truly was in the driver's seat by the end of the episode. True, he did become a martyr for the freedom and liberty of his beliefs but he won a moral victory over the state which stifled him!

Overall I rate this a 9 out of 10.
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