The concept for "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" is so utterly ridiculous I am shocked this episode of "The Twilight Zone" was created in the first place....and who would have approved this ludicrous script?!
When the story begins, a boy heads to the bus stop but is kidnapped. His mother learns he's disappeared and runs to the police station...only to be told they can't do anything about it because he's part of some weird reality game show "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?". So, we are expected to believe that local police are helpless or will do nothing because it's all part of TV...even when the slimey host (Wayne Knight) strongly implies that if she doesn't find her son in one hour, the boy will be killed. This is just stupid.
Whether what followed is good or not didn't really matter to me. The entire concept was so dopey and flawed that there is no way this could be a good episode of the rebooted "Twilight Zone". It also never made any sense that the desperate mother would go along with this...nor pretty much anyone.
To me, this episode just shows that the writers of the series had run out of ideas. I say this because of the dumb plot AND because late in the series they began making remakes of the original episodes from the 1959-64 series.
When the story begins, a boy heads to the bus stop but is kidnapped. His mother learns he's disappeared and runs to the police station...only to be told they can't do anything about it because he's part of some weird reality game show "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?". So, we are expected to believe that local police are helpless or will do nothing because it's all part of TV...even when the slimey host (Wayne Knight) strongly implies that if she doesn't find her son in one hour, the boy will be killed. This is just stupid.
Whether what followed is good or not didn't really matter to me. The entire concept was so dopey and flawed that there is no way this could be a good episode of the rebooted "Twilight Zone". It also never made any sense that the desperate mother would go along with this...nor pretty much anyone.
To me, this episode just shows that the writers of the series had run out of ideas. I say this because of the dumb plot AND because late in the series they began making remakes of the original episodes from the 1959-64 series.