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I'm a fan of this iteration of the Twilight Zone, and this episode physically hurt me. Stylistically amazing, the first 2/3 are genuinely fascinating to watch. Beautiful breadcrumbs that end up nowhere as the ominous tone and any semblance of originality fly out the window as the Kanamits (from the original series' To Serve Man) arrive to explain the plot to death. What seemed destined for a deep and complex dive into an intricately woven universe crashes into the campy shallow end of the pool. And that's what it feels like to watch.

The Twilight Zone tried to go Black Mirror here and it led to one of the worst episodes of TV this year.

There was nothing redeeming about this. It was horrible.

I'll admit, Season 2 was a decent improvement on the very poor first season. The Who of You, A Small Town, Try Try, and Meet in the Middle We're all intriguing albeit not perfect. But the writing was definitely stronger. The obviousness and absurd social / political commentary on almost EVERY episode is no longer apparent. It's still here, but it's not nearly as obvious or ubiquitous. I also love the cinematography and the set design. I even think Peele is a good narrator. He does his own take and doesn't try to emulate Serling which no one on Earth could do...well except maybe that one guy from the episode "8" I thought that was him! Freaked me out! Anyway...if season 1 was a 4, season 2 is a 6. Not amazing but better. However, they landed on The worst episode of EITHER season (yeah, worse than Not All Men) with a completely nonsensical brain buster. If you get the EGG and people learn that it KILLS you why would ANYONE ELSE want to get the EGG??? Also it's completely unfocused and all over the place. I did enjoy the way the aliens looked. Did we need that pronoun joke though? Dumb. Not sure I'll return for Season 3 but hopefully when people start making movies again after this awful pandemic is over, Peele will make another brilliant horror film. This series needs quite a lot of work still, but Peele's two films are brilliant and unforgettable. Get Out was genius.

Anyway, hated this episode. Just dumb. Lame.

I kinda get what Oz Perkins & Company were going for. But there are a few too many distractions along the way for the message to really come across.

For one thing, what is the point of putting in the Kanamits? Other than to give us George Takei as a Kanamit ("Oh my!"), Oz Perkins in a cameo, and a female Kanamit. Are we supposed to believe this is a sequel of the episode "To Serve Man"? There's no rationale to it. The Kanamits wanted to eat humans, both in the original episode and here. How does the Egg help them eat humans? It purees Ellen, but we don't see any indication that helps with Kanamit dietary needs. It's more like the Kanamits want to eliminate a non-shared-mind bunch of humans they can't predict or understand, which is different from the motivation of "To Serve Man" or the three Kanamit workers talking here.

It's like a farmer convincing his chickens to be okay with their captivity. He's growing them to eat them. Just like the Kanamits were originally "taking care" of humans. The farmer has already "won", why does he have to make the chickens more comfy?

The scene with them discussing "original or extra crispy" is funny, though.

For another thing, has the world been under the rule of the Kanamits since "To Serve Man"? It doesn't come across that way, but it sorta does with everyone being in a 1950s-ish society when the original was of that time period. And what's the point of the Kanamits repeatedly abducting Janet? Why wasn't once enough? Her being abducted earlier seems to exist only to raise her suspicions so she gets abducted and then the Kanamit Queen explains what they're doing.

The idea of aliens studying old radio and TV transmissions isn't particularly original, and "learning" about humans from those, either.

So I get the idea of mindless consumerism = bad. And how grief leads people to do suicidal things even when they know better. But those messages get buried in Perkins' directorial and writing detours. Like the fake commercials in the episode, that apparently use Janet's unseen husband and family? Like the bit about the Immolation Center: what was the point of that? At least the parody commercials in productions like 'Robocop' made sense. Here Perkins seems to be trying to give a deeper meaning to them. But what that meaning is, I have no idea.

Ditto for stuff like Chantal. She's a "stargazer" who also runs a daycare center and is apparently a phony. Why does Janet have a stargazer on call? I have no idea: she doesn't seem like the type, and we never find out anything about Chantal.

Everyone seems to be having fun, mostly Perkins, Takei, Mol, and Peele himself. The latter at least gives some verve to his narration. But fun just to be fun: it doesn't service the plot.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

So everyone is clamoring for an egg that solves all your problems.

But does not actually show what problems are solved, and how it is solved.

Wanting it just happens to their primary motivation for life. Hence why everyone seems drugged out of their minds, cause not only does it makes no sense, it doesn't attempt to make sense of it all.

They just cut right through to the 'gotcha' moment where the egg kills you/ replaces you, and that this egg is a tool for an alien race to subjugate humans .

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Is is how writers are taught how to write these days? Just write the last chapter , and you will be praised and featured in a relatively prominent TV series?

Oh, and the budget is very small for this whole season too. One or two location shoots , with bad CGI for show in the trailers. Looks so much worse than the practical effects of the original Twilight Zone season 50 yeas ago.

Another terrible episode to finish off the second season of "Twilight Zone", unlike some of the others though, I feel here that "You Might Also Like" is really disappointing, as it has a couple of really good ideas that it does a terrible job of exploring.

Janet Warren (Gretchen Mol) is suffering from blackouts, during which she dreams of advertisements, before waking up in her bed. She attempts to tell his to her friend Ellen (Greta Lee) but she is focused on receiving her egg today, an unspecified piece of technology that will somehow make her life better. Janet is also due to pick up her egg today, but has concerns about the product and wonders if it's linked to her blackout spells.

I really like a couple of ideas in this episode. It's all about (SPOILERS) aliens, specifically the Kanamits, who I understand are returning characters, but I'm not deep enough into the lore of "TZ" to know that. But I really like the idea of aliens using humans love of what's new and 'must have' as a method for getting their eggs into people's homes. I also liked the idea of aliens trying to communicate with humans via targeted adverts, something better could have been done with that. Instead, Oz Perkins, allows both ideas to drift into a vague and unsatisfying story in which next to nothing is explained. Most importantly for this particularly story, there's no explanation of why this is specifically happening to Janet and (as with so many episodes of this run) there's no end to her story. For reasons not made clear to us, she seems to accept that she needs an Egg, so heads off to the sports arena to pick one up.

I liked some of the atmosphere of the episode. The abduction moment is creepy the first time, then played for laughs the second time. But what's it all for? What point, subtext or analogy is the episode aiming for? Why are so few episodes of this second run interested in telling an actual story?

If a third season is eventually forthcoming I'm sure I'll be back, but I'd really like more complete stories and nothing as dreadful as this again.

"You Might Also Like" reflects the online shopping gimmick phrase meant to induce you into buying something more. Consumerism and the need to possess the newest and best. In the original series, "To Serve Man" tells of an alien race that finds a way to trick humankind into being their prey (vanity, ego). In this episode, those same aliens have returned to Earth and adopted a new strategy to induce humankind to willingly fall for a behavioural trap (quick fix, greed). Once again, humankind's emotional vulnerability makes it an easy prey.

The performances were excellent. It appeared to me that the editing of the story made it very difficult to follow. Some of the embedded clues and indicators were too subtle, or not readily evident. That's unfortunate because the concept is brilliant.

I skipped to this episode because of it being a loosely based sequel of to serve man. Sadly, the plot and details of the episode do not match the premise. This could have been a great episode but instead in was nonsensical and haphazard through most of it.

It felt like someone had an idea for a serve man sequel with the Kanamites, jotted down a random list of possible things to include in the episode and then had someone film the episode based off of the random list word for word. There was no real direction or development of any character.

Season 2 of the Jordan Peele twilight zone was an overall improvement over season 1, but this episode is a letdown and not worth watching.