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The Twilight Zone: What You Need (1959)
What I Got
What I got is a great episode of someone who got what they deserved when he took advantage of a man simply trying to help people. Yeah! He got his gift... slippery shoes. There is a filming quirk in the beginning before the first commercial break. That is the cigarette smoke from the thug's ashtray is going downward, i.e., the film is being played in reverse. There is also the aspect of someone of no moral grounding taking advantage of someone who is using their "Gift" of helping people with "What they need." Maybe this will sway some folk to not corrupt "charities" for their own selfish need. I was really impressed by the charitable guy's clairvoyance of the thug sitting at the bar. I also loved the cleaning fluid lady's beauty and Lefty the washed up pitcher's smile... it's infectious. It's also evident that Lefty is a good hearted guy. At the same time, it's also plain the bartender is a needler of Lefty. How the thug found out where the peddler lived and broke in, just sitting there until the peddler got home is pretty good fraught for a cheap thug like Renard.
The Twilight Zone: And When the Sky Was Opened (1959)
Are you really here?
This episode seems to me after several viewings a critical self questioning of existence, the feeling one would have being kicked out of an organization that one felt totally at home, for instance the human race. When as Harrington, the first to "Go Away", got the feeling that he wasn't supposed to be here anymore; maybe he was echoing what most folks of older age feel when they lose all their friends and family, feeling they don't belong here anymore. The premise of the episode, "something got the plane and it's operators for 24 hours, let them come back, then..." slowly snatched them back one by one is storying a science fiction angle to explain an earthbound reality.
The Twilight Zone: Perchance to Dream (1959)
Good progression of plot
Edward Hall does a convincing job of looking tired, Hollywood style, i.e., no darkened bags under his eyes for being awake almost four days and nights (I can't imagine), and the subsequent development of his character is adequately done; boy, does he sure go to the doctor a lot, the same one who tells him he's finished the next time. Yet the surreal amusement park scenes with Maya the Catsecretary he just saw and incorporated into his dream and who wants him to jump off the endless roller coaster ride decides to use a large nosed stunt man to actually do the jumping out of the obviously not the window in the building used for external shots earlier in the episode. I'm just being sneaky about this episode I really like. Never being a really "Can't get a good nights sleep" type, I can imagine somewhat after viewing this episode what lack of sleep mentally generates.