This season of Twilight Zone is easily the weakest of all the seasons.
Here, we have potential of a nice episode. It's something that probably half of all fiction writers since the invention of papyrus had in mind. The stopping of time.
Here, there is a stopwatch that halts time.
It's a good theme, and probably written better by every writer who preceded this writer.
We have a "boorish character", but not a bad one, just one with likable faults, who finds the stopwatch.
He isn't half as smart as he thinks he is, and for some reason the writer and director thinks that makes him worthy of being despised.
Too many Twilight Zone episodes had this "hate factor" of writers and directors who felt themselves worthy of being gods, and they were unworthy.
With most of Hollywood movies and TV being depressing stories being thrust upon audiences, this episode has to be called the "formula episode", the cliche, and there isn't any saving grace to it.
Here, we have potential of a nice episode. It's something that probably half of all fiction writers since the invention of papyrus had in mind. The stopping of time.
Here, there is a stopwatch that halts time.
It's a good theme, and probably written better by every writer who preceded this writer.
We have a "boorish character", but not a bad one, just one with likable faults, who finds the stopwatch.
He isn't half as smart as he thinks he is, and for some reason the writer and director thinks that makes him worthy of being despised.
Too many Twilight Zone episodes had this "hate factor" of writers and directors who felt themselves worthy of being gods, and they were unworthy.
With most of Hollywood movies and TV being depressing stories being thrust upon audiences, this episode has to be called the "formula episode", the cliche, and there isn't any saving grace to it.