Klugman is a wonderfully intense young man named Jesse who is trying to prove that he is the best at something. The unfortunate circumstance is that the man he needs to beat in order to go from #2 to #1 is dead. After muttering the words that he would do ANYTHING to win. Winters is the deceased man who comes back from the dead and challenges Jesse to the game of his dreams, the price is his own death if Jesse should lose. I love the intensity between these two characters and the solemness captured in this very serious scene. Jesse ultimately learns that even being a legend has its price when he wins the game only to find that after his own death he must constantly prove how good he is by playing the living wanna be's, like himself, for the duration of his eternity as a kind of a sentence. After only having seen Jack Klugman in goofy roles like that of Oscar in The Odd Couple it's hard to imagine him so young and fierce, but this is by far my favorite role of his. If you have not seen this episode you should! I think it's now one of my top 5 favorite Twilight Zones!
Review of A Game of Pool
