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In 1960, Rod Sterling released the beloved twilight episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", which acted a a subtle critique on cold war paranoia. Well written, and culminating in a shocking twist ending, the episode was an immediate hit among fans. This week "Not all Men" tries, and fails to recapture that iconic episode. As with most episodes in this season, "Not all men" suffers from blunt writing, a boring plot and a poor twist. Its messages are not subtle, spoon feeding the audience it's labored allegories and ideologies. Many moments throughout the episode are unintentionally cheesy. Thanks mostly in part to the writing. This seasons greatest vices have been its sub-par plots, bad twists and utterly terrible writing. All things Rod Sterling perfected in the original twilight zone. Giving audiences chills with its timely messages and eerie tones.

To say this episode managed to do worse than all the previous ones is an understatement. Although I actually liked the premise and I wanted to see where they'd take it, after a short time it was obvious this was going to be YET ANOTHER virtue-signalling, "All men are evil" episode.

I get it - men are often crazy, sexist animals, but to go as far as saying ALL MEN have this evil inside them, but not women, is just an insult to anyone with a brain. If the episode were about soul-stealing harpies that eat men alive, it would have been insulting as well.

But nowadays it's alright to blame men for everything. They can take it. But this show can't write a decent episode without shooting themselves in the foot... repeatedly. Good writers are apparently as rare as men who treat women respectfully. Sad.

I really don't see how this episode could classify as a part of the Twilight zone. To me it felt like a B grade Horror film with good cinematography. As for the premise, it didn't go further than, meteorites turns men crazy. I really hope this reboot will offer some more promising episodes in the future, because this really misses all the points that made the twilight zone so great.

The biggest problem with the new series is that it took all the wrong lessons from its predecessors, the original Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. Those shows were both politically charged, yes, but the main focus was always telling an engaging story, with the social commentary serving as background material.

But this series has a message to deliver first and foremost, and seems to have little interest in whether or not it makes a good watch. The only kind of commentary that works effectively is the subtle kind; sledgehammer commentary like in this episode simply makes people feel like they're reading an opinion piece.

Oh... I'm going to enjoy scanning the reviews on this one. Arsehole dude-bros are famously good at taking criticism so I'm sure they loved this one, that suggests that occasionally masculinity might not be a positive force. All that said, though this episode was much better than what's come before - ultimately it suffers from the same issues in that it's not "going anywhere". It's a good first act of a story, but missing the escalation beats of a second act, and any genuine conclusion.

Annie Miller (Taissa Farmiga) is on a slightly awkward date with Dylan (Luke Kirby) when a meteor shower hits the small town they live in. The meteors begin to have an immediate effect on the male population of the town, increasing the levels of aggression. As the town descends into chaos, Annie and her sister Martha (Rhea Seehorn) have to cross the city to locate Martha's son, Cole (Percy Hynes White) and get to safety, if that exists.

So there is some early subtly to the episode, the date that gets just a little more physical that Annie is happy with, the way she internalises it and chalks it up to "the way things go some time" was, I imagine painfully familiar to some women. The bit that sticks with me was when she does talk to her sister about it, and she says that "she's had some lousy dates, and a few that were worse than lousy". I'm not trying to "virtue signal" - who am I trying to impress, the 10 people who might read this one day?- but it's incomprehensible to a me that women exist with those baseline levels of pain and fear.

The performances are pretty good across the board, Ike Barinholtz turns his schtick up to 11 as Martha's husband, who succumbs. The setup is done nicely and the groundwork is laid. Ultimately though, the show does bungle its conclusion. Trying to suggest that it was all a placebo allowing men to act as they want doesn't work, as we've seen that there is a physical change in the men effected by the rocks? Then the story just drifts away, no suggestion why the army picked up on the problem so quickly, no acknowledgement of how the situation might be resolved.

Ending the shows really is proving the undoing of this season of "Twilight Zone".

So men are born violent and aggressive. And women are so helpless and dim-witted that, amidst a townful of homicidal maniacs - none thinks to grab a weapon or seek shelter. They just run into the mob.

If it were done competently, this episode would rival Joseph Goebbels for vicious propaganda. So it's probably best that it's not done competently.

Because women aren't helpless and stupid. And men aren't violent and primitive.

And both groups have the basic sense to change the channel rather than endure such an artless barrage of insults.

As a woman who has experienced sexual harassment, this episode handled the topic quite well.

The story is interesting and engaging throughout the episode. I felt like it had plenty of suspense, and I had a few theories on the meaning of different more subtle messages throughout.

I have seen a lot of negative reviews claiming that the women in this episode are "weak" or "helpless" I would say that's incorrect... They are the observers of the phenomenon in this episode. It is the women who are typically being opressed in this way, but the show STILL includes a male as well.

It is my absolute favorite episode so far.

Feel free to ignore the outrageous reviews claiming that there's no such thing as toxic masculinity, that this is female propaganda, or any of the other ridiculous things I've read on here.

Just watch it for yourself.

I enjoyed the episode but thought it was so stereotypical and sexist. It should've been both sexes affected as we both are capable of such behaviour. Wasn't surprised to see it was written by a woman.

I'm not sure what Jordan Peele and company are trying to do with this series, the original Rod Serling show managed to sneak in social commentary, tackling a variety of issues, but first and foremost they told interesting stories. With "Not All Men" we are basically told that all men suck, unless they have a feminine side to their personality, and that women would be better off if they had their own planet. I'm not saying that women haven't been stuck with the short end of the stick since, well forever, but this episode didn't seem to have anything more clever to say then, "Men suck, am I right ladies?"

So the title is "Not all men" yet these hypersensitive men complaining that they are being demonized can't seem to get that the show is not referring to "all men". It is only referring to those men who "choose to" behave like this, as was said in the episode.

If you are offended by this then you are likely one of those men in the show or you are missing the point entirely.

This for me so far is the best episode and yet the lowest rated. I'm sure it was only 'certain people' who have rated this low. Oh boohoo they're bashing men. Yes, this show can be a little PC at times, but this was a good episode, well acted. But for me it doesn't work as a 40min episode. This needed to be a film or a 3 part mini series or something along those lines. It needed more of a build up and a conclusion in order to work.

Nothing twilight zone about this. More of a poorly written social commentary. "Toxic masculinity" making all men go crazy. The ending was especially pathetic.

What a disappointment this new incarnation of TZ is. Like a lot of you, I couldn't wait to see what it would be with Jordan Peele's name attached. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have anything to do with the writing of these episodes. Too bad. While Rod Serling's original show often had clumsy twist endings, at least there usually WERE payoffs. Many of the new Twilight Zone episodes have none, or ones so underwhelming as to be non-existent. "Not All Men" is no exception, and in fact is the worst of the lot so far. Where Serling could be preachy at times, the new TZ beats you over the head with a sledgehammer. The writing in this episode stinks: men are brutal, insensitive a-holes who choose to be that way. That's it, as far as I could tell. Tessa Farmigia & Rhea Seehorn give acceptable performances, but they've really got nothing to work with here. This is the seventh episode; c'mon guys, get it together. All of us old (I mean that literally) Twilight Zone fans long for a return to the good old days of stories with bold writing and great performances. Of the former we've had very little.

This is an important story, one I hope is remembered. Not All Men is a social commentary cleverly disguised as b grade horror. It addresses toxic masculinity and gives us a glimpse of the genuinely awful ways women are treated in society. It isn't a perfect episode. The ending if thought about too much doesn't really make sense, but the points hit home. Sexism is prevalent in society. No matter how woke we think we are. Lots of people are casually sexist, whether intentional or not and this episode addresses this in a really cool way.

This one started out with promise and went absolutely nowhere...sad really. I was so excited when this series was announced but it's been one disappointing episode after another.

Sorry for the mistakes, I'm from Russia, I write through a Google translator. Ufff, still speak out about the long-suffering 7th series. Before her, for some reason, no one was embarrassed that in the series everything was in principle hyperbolized. But as soon as the hyperbole touched men - that's all, write is gone. Let's start with the name, because it clearly has a deep meaning. "Not all men." This phrase is usually used under a post about the murder of a cohabitant or rape of a girl. Well you, he is an animal, but not all the same men! Yeah, the relatives of the murdered or the victim of violence are so important to know instead of words of support.

And yes, not all men are murderers and rapists, most men are against it, but almost all killers and rapists are men. Open official statistics if you do not believe. And all these rapists and murderers were nurtured by the same society as the "normal." A society that loves jokes about violence and women in the kitchen; He calls walking men beautiful French words such as Lavelas or Don Giovanni, and walking women much less affectionate epithets; says that a woman is an attachment to a man and should satisfy all his wishes; drives women to the kitchen, etc. to infinity. Yes, violence and murder arise precisely from these stereotypes and jokes, and show me at least one man who has never joked so - this does not exist in nature. So yes, everyone is like that. And in the series it was very well beaten when one of the main characters said that she had many not very good exes before she found her good husband. But for verification, this husband turned out to be the same as everyone else.

Now about the wrong ones in the series. Yes, they are not there either. They showed three. The first one didn't give a damn that women were afraid of him, he ran up to them, obviously frightening, and began the classic speech "not all men are like that" when the heroines had to hurry. The second, a gay teenager was directly tormented by the fact that he wanted to be bad, and barely coped with it. The third, a military man at the entrance to the base began to command the heroine that she should smile, because he likes it. Aren't they? Yes, they are exactly the same, they just better block all these classically "masculine" traits in themselves.

I do not think that men are born bad. Everything is brought up by society. And our society, suddenly finding itself in civilization, does not yet understand why sexist jokes and stereotypes are bad, and how they lead to violence. That's all, I spoke out. I know that my comment will not be popular, but maybe at least someone will make you think. Thank you all for reading.

A very good and frightening episode of suspense and desperation. However, the new TZ series is more into pushing a liberal narrative than giving its viewers a few cheap thrills. It continues to push the gay relationships and feminism. I guess it learned much from the Lifetime Channel, AKA, the men bashing channel. Men become the monstrous gender motivated to inflict harm on everyone, especially females. Why just men? What ever happened to equal opportunity in the name of feminism? Hollywood, stick to your great movies and stay away from political social issues.

Excellent episode! Fantastic acting from Taissa Farmiga and Rhea Seahorn. Raises very real issues of how damaging toxic masculinity can be. Seems to have hit a nerve with a lot of reviewers which just goes to show how accurate it is!

Yes, as a man I knew that water made men aggressive. Actually, its a fact known for centuries. We are built this way to be able to protect our families. In nature the lions are a lot more aggressive than lionesses for a reason. Look at all the wars and murders, facts don't lie. But we have evolved and men are becoming better.

Having never watched the original TZ, this remake feels clumsy. And in this case offers nothing at the end of the episode, just a stupid conclusion to a touchy subject. Just like religion, they knew how to preach but were not useful.

The thing about using political and social commentary is that you actually have to tell it like it actually is and not use a higly respected TV show such as TZ to push your (seemingly) personal agendas by poorly generalising men as these toxic creatures. At least this is the direction this show has went.

I truly hope the powers to be at CBS are aware of the poor perception of this show and wont extend for another season - at least not with this group of creatives.