Grew up on Twiight Zone reruns, and am taking advantage of the joy of the Netflix binge to revisit the series...
Where is Everybody is tight story-telling, the viewer is dropped in along side our protagonist walking down the road and not finding any other people anywhere and we struggle, step by practical and very relatable step, with him to learn the what, where and why of the situation. It doesn't take long for the initial feeling of "what is going on" to morph into heartfelt sympathy and genuine concern for our solitary character. Wonderful bare-bones story-telling with a large emotional impact.
The Big Reveal provides our lesson in humanity, which is all the more fascinating in retrospect (i.e., knowing what we know now about the circumstances for the reveal than was known back in the late 1950s) and plays delightfully (and meaningfully) well almost 60 years later - not many shows can say that. Wonderful first episode.
Where is Everybody is tight story-telling, the viewer is dropped in along side our protagonist walking down the road and not finding any other people anywhere and we struggle, step by practical and very relatable step, with him to learn the what, where and why of the situation. It doesn't take long for the initial feeling of "what is going on" to morph into heartfelt sympathy and genuine concern for our solitary character. Wonderful bare-bones story-telling with a large emotional impact.
The Big Reveal provides our lesson in humanity, which is all the more fascinating in retrospect (i.e., knowing what we know now about the circumstances for the reveal than was known back in the late 1950s) and plays delightfully (and meaningfully) well almost 60 years later - not many shows can say that. Wonderful first episode.