I enjoyed the beginning of Replay, the use of the camcorder as a narrative device- I remember them from back in the day. I loved the little devil figure and the nod to the original Twilight Zone episode set in the diner with William Shatner, Nick of Time. I thought the show used the idea of rewinding time very well as we saw the scene again and again return to the diner with the mother and son setting off on the drive to the son's new college.
Then the show took on a much deeper theme that I didn't anticipate. This was by far the most strongest episode of the new Twilight Zone, which packed a punch as suspenseful as the original series, and all the more moving, as I thought it was expressing what couldn't be said back in the 1960s when the first series was created. I'm not African American and while I had an awareness of the issues of police brutality and Black Lives Matter this show really brought home to me the terror so many have experienced. It resonated with me on a very deep level as I've been very concerned by the growing incidents of anti Semitism and attacks on Jewish people in the US. It made me think of my grandparents and the fears they had remembering the persecution and violence that made them flee Russia at the start of the last century, and the fear many have now of that old hatred catching up to them, after they thought they had escaped it in America.
I was very moved by the ending with everyone standing together, holding up their phones as mirrors to the police. It made me cry. Thank you Twilight Zone for giving voice to dark chapters in our country's history, and encouraging everyone to see each other's common humanity and stand together against prejudice and injustice.
Then the show took on a much deeper theme that I didn't anticipate. This was by far the most strongest episode of the new Twilight Zone, which packed a punch as suspenseful as the original series, and all the more moving, as I thought it was expressing what couldn't be said back in the 1960s when the first series was created. I'm not African American and while I had an awareness of the issues of police brutality and Black Lives Matter this show really brought home to me the terror so many have experienced. It resonated with me on a very deep level as I've been very concerned by the growing incidents of anti Semitism and attacks on Jewish people in the US. It made me think of my grandparents and the fears they had remembering the persecution and violence that made them flee Russia at the start of the last century, and the fear many have now of that old hatred catching up to them, after they thought they had escaped it in America.
I was very moved by the ending with everyone standing together, holding up their phones as mirrors to the police. It made me cry. Thank you Twilight Zone for giving voice to dark chapters in our country's history, and encouraging everyone to see each other's common humanity and stand together against prejudice and injustice.