The Twilight Zone: What's in the Box (1964)
Season 5, Episode 24
10/10
One of these days... POW! Right in the kisser!
10 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was hilarious! It's practically an episode of wrestling between a miserable man and his wife. Can you even do this on TV today? The part where he hits is wife across the back with a chair was about the funniest thing I ever seen on tv. Of course real world domestic violence is awful, but this is just a tv show so it's fine. The episode is not condoning such behavior.

The writing is SOO REAL and RAW! Finally an episode that doesn't feel like a man child wrote it. It was a huge departure from most episodes. It took real guts to make this one and the 2 actors play their parts soo well you'd think it was real. The TV repair man was hilarious at the end too.

It was really sad that the man was finally sorry after seeing himself on tv enough, to see how horrible he had been to his wife, and so he says sorry and wants to start over with her. She mocks him for this. It's at this point I start to realize, I guess the wife is part of the problem too. So he sadly fulfills the vision he sees on tv and kills his wife. I like to think the TV was not magic, but he is suffering mental anguish as he is shocked to death on the electric chair, so his final moments and thoughts are the entire episode. A sort of flashback that he thinks is real. Not unlike another episode earlier in the year of a man being hanged on a bridge.

A greatly entertaining episode with a sad end. If only they had stuck with hour long episodes, this is one that definitely needed to be. It takes 2 to make a marriage work, but it still looks like the man did most of the evil here.
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