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When Rod Serling first invited viewers into The Twilight Zone, his dimension of sight, sound, and a land of wondrous imagination 60 years ago, there was no looking back. Once audiences had crossed over into that realm between science and superstition their minds—and television storytelling—were permanently altered.
Running for five seasons, from October 1959 until June 1964, The Twilight Zone helped legitimize sci-fi as a serious genre on television. Its cautionary tales of dark irony and serendipity continue to influence popular media. From The X-Files, to The Simpsons, Black Mirror, Fringe, The Mist, Ex Machina, Her, Rod Serling’s anthology series has a permanence the writer himself didn’t anticipate—and is frequently considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
You can see The Twilight Zone influence in Amazon Studios’ latest feature, The Vast of Night. The film from director Andrew Patterson, which...
When Rod Serling first invited viewers into The Twilight Zone, his dimension of sight, sound, and a land of wondrous imagination 60 years ago, there was no looking back. Once audiences had crossed over into that realm between science and superstition their minds—and television storytelling—were permanently altered.
Running for five seasons, from October 1959 until June 1964, The Twilight Zone helped legitimize sci-fi as a serious genre on television. Its cautionary tales of dark irony and serendipity continue to influence popular media. From The X-Files, to The Simpsons, Black Mirror, Fringe, The Mist, Ex Machina, Her, Rod Serling’s anthology series has a permanence the writer himself didn’t anticipate—and is frequently considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
You can see The Twilight Zone influence in Amazon Studios’ latest feature, The Vast of Night. The film from director Andrew Patterson, which...
- 5/26/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
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