The Twilight Zone - Season 2 (The Definitive Edition)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Jack Klugman, Jay Overholts, Robert McCord, Rod Serling, Vaughn Taylor Director: Boris Sagal, Buzz Kulik, David Orrick McDearmon, Don Medford, Douglas Heyes Brand: Image Entertainment DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 750 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Image Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of The Twilight Zone - Season 2 (The Definitive Edition)
Movie Review: A few comments and a comparison
Summary: 5 Stars
As others have already commented on the specifics of the technical features and the episodes themselves, I thought I would try to make some different comments more about the series as a whole. Then I compared seasons one and two are the very end (those are the only ones I've watched all the DVDs for yet).
I wasn't a fan of the original series as I was a little young at the time, having been born in the early 50s, but I saw some of the shows in reruns in the mid-60s. I was more of a fan of the Outer Limits, Lost in Space, and Star Trek, at the time, and only caught saw maybe a dozen episodes. So at age 53, I decided to buy seasons 1-4 and finally watch most of the episodes. (I still need to find the last season, number 5).
I was pleased to see how well they have held up. It was the drab 50s and then turbulent 60s, and the Cold War, with its threat of possible nuclear annihilation, was in full swing. Perhaps that explains the pervasive film noir ambience and dark mood that often hangs like a pall over many of the episodes. Although the characters are drawn from all levels of society and from all walks of life--from two-bit criminals to the rich and famous--many are just various and sundry low-lifes, riff-raff, criminals, and grifters. And then there are the simply down and out--the bored or emotionally overwrought, old and unwanted, middle-aged and overstressed, desperate housewives, the dyspeptic, dispossessed, or depressed, and your average guy just down on his luck.
One funny aspect of the episodes is how unflatteringly writers themselves are portrayed. The episodes starring Keenan Wynn (in the first season) as a America's most famous (but philandering) playwright and Richard Haydn in the second season as a snobbish, effete, arrogant, spiteful, and verbally abusive wine and food writer with a short temper and a sharp wit and tongue, don't exactly portray writers in a positive light. :-)
There were the few episodes that made an attempt at humor, but as the editorial review mentions, they don't seem to have held up as well as the other episodes. It was also interesting to see how often science fictional themes cropped up--although the science aspect isn't so important as the fact that a futuristic scenario allowed Serling to explore another dark topic--such as in the episode in the first season starring Jack Warden, who has been unjustly sentenced to a lonely existence on an uninhabited asteroid. He is going mad from isolation, his only contact with the outside world being the few minutes every 3 months when the supply ship comes to drop off supplies.
One final note on the special features of the second season volume. This set is only five DVDs and not six like the first season, and there is less bonus material on the fifth DVD. The sixth DVD of the first season is all extra bonus material, but for the second season, it contains five episodes in addition to the bonus material, For comparison purposes here are the special features of season 1 versus season 2:
Season 1:
In addition to the above features, there are the additional features on the sixth and last DVD in the first season set. These are:
1. A special edition of Where Is Everybody? which wasn't aired
2. Serling's Netherlands sales pitch (the show was to be shown in the Netherlands)
3. Serling's hosting the Liar's Club TV show
4. A rare Rod Serling blooper
5. The first Emmy award he received (hosted by Chuck Conners and Fred Astaire)
6. The original Twilight Zone Billboards
7. A Photo Galleries section containing individual photos from the first season
8. The Twilight Zone radio drama, "The Lonely," starring Mike Starr
9. The Twilight Zone Comic Book (in .pdf format).
Season 2:
1. Mike Wallace interview
2. Tell It to Groucho clip
3. The Jack Benny show clip
4. The Twilight Zone season 2 Billboards
5. Season 2 stills/photos
6. The Twilight Zone comic book in .pdf format.
The first season also had Serlings Sherwood Oaks college lecture, which was interesting, especially the portions where he fields questions from the audience and explains how the did some of the shots and worked out the problems of transferring the written scripts to the more visual medium of TV.
So overall, I'm finding it to still be a great series that has stood the test of time. This is truly a great slice of Americana, from a younger, simpler, less complex America that is now long gone.