Ep 39: The Twilight Zone

Imagine if you would, a podcast—one of style and taste, and intellectual insight…Instead, however, you’re here with us! On this episode of CFX we’re going into a dimension not of sight or sound, but of mind to examine one of the most iconic TV shows in history: The Twilight Zone. We go over the history of the show, the one-of-a-kind, iconic TV genius who created it, and we pick some of our favorite (and not so favorite) episodes. As usual, we assess whether we think it stands the test of time, and while you make think you know what to expect, stay tuned because you never know where things are going to end up in the “CFX Zone” as we learn…

• How Rod Serling served and survived some of the deadliest situations in World War II only to work and smoke himself to death by age 50
• What iconic episodes were remade into horrible sequels in various reboots
• What dangerous side gig Serling undertook to support his family in his early career
• How some of the most profound historical events of the 20th century were direct influences on the show
• Why one of our evaluations is kind of a crazy twist ending
• How some previous stars in the CFX universe might fare in their own Twilight Zone episodes

 

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