Since beginning the Twilight Zone back in May, I've watched the pilot episode "Where is Everybody?" total of three times. While I could have been +3 episodes more into the series, I just keep coming back to this one. Putting aside the somewhat campy 50's acting - this episode, especially the latter half of it is some of the most invigorating piece of content I have yet seen on the topic it deals with and the psychological breakdown of man. I just can't help but feel an overbearing sense of emotion towards the very end of the episode when the soldier just loses it.
It is absolutely amazing to me the subject of the mind. The theme of the BASIC NEED for human companionship is extremely well represented here. Serling was a master "psychologist" if you will, in that he understood the human condition very well - at least this is the evidence I got out of the majority of the episodes he has written. If you think about this episode on a grand scale, you'll notice just how many of us can GET and DO get depressed because of the lack of human interaction. We are social animals in our nature, and that "basic human need" of companionship is of vital importance.
I think that this was Serling's hour. This is one of the best, hard hitting, and most importantly; most relevant "moral lessons" that came out of the Twilight Zone.
It is absolutely amazing to me the subject of the mind. The theme of the BASIC NEED for human companionship is extremely well represented here. Serling was a master "psychologist" if you will, in that he understood the human condition very well - at least this is the evidence I got out of the majority of the episodes he has written. If you think about this episode on a grand scale, you'll notice just how many of us can GET and DO get depressed because of the lack of human interaction. We are social animals in our nature, and that "basic human need" of companionship is of vital importance.
I think that this was Serling's hour. This is one of the best, hard hitting, and most importantly; most relevant "moral lessons" that came out of the Twilight Zone.