This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers.
The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 2
From The Matrix to Vanilla Sky and several, several Philip K. Dick novels, the notion that our lives are a perpetual dream fueled by technology, is a science fiction staple. Usually, this distinction is fairly binary: There’s a real-world, and a dream world, and once you figure that out, your entire world view changes. But, in the second episode of the new Twilight Zone’s second season, it’s not about taking the red pill or the blue pill. Instead, in “Downtime,” there’s a third concept: What if our virtual avatars went on without us?
All great Twilight Zone episodes have a twist, and, arguably, the twist for “Downtime,” comes pretty quickly. Newly promoted hotel manager Michelle (Morena Baccarin) quickly learns that she is not actually Michelle, but instead, a virtual avatar created by a man...
The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 2
From The Matrix to Vanilla Sky and several, several Philip K. Dick novels, the notion that our lives are a perpetual dream fueled by technology, is a science fiction staple. Usually, this distinction is fairly binary: There’s a real-world, and a dream world, and once you figure that out, your entire world view changes. But, in the second episode of the new Twilight Zone’s second season, it’s not about taking the red pill or the blue pill. Instead, in “Downtime,” there’s a third concept: What if our virtual avatars went on without us?
All great Twilight Zone episodes have a twist, and, arguably, the twist for “Downtime,” comes pretty quickly. Newly promoted hotel manager Michelle (Morena Baccarin) quickly learns that she is not actually Michelle, but instead, a virtual avatar created by a man...
- 6/25/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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