Saturday, March 12, 2016

Revisiting The Twilight Zone: S1 E28: A Nice Place to Visit


Revisiting The Twilight Zone: S1 E28: A Nice Place to Visit

Ah, Charles Beaumont pulls the wool over many people’s eyes in this episode of a career criminal who finally meets his match when he is shot by a policeman during a robbery. When he awakes he finds he has no injuries and has been joined by a man who says he is only there to give him whatever he wants.

Rocky is right to be suspicious, and he is, until the point comes where he tries to bump off his mate, only to see that he can’t. It is by now that he realises that he is actually dead, and he believes that he has made it into heaven.

Beaumont’s story is cleverly crafted all the way through, as Rocky decides to make the best of his situation and milk it for all it’s worth. As the episode progresses the viewer can see how such a situation – where the protagonist gets everything they want – seems to weigh him down. And thus when the conclusion comes and the moral of the story is revealed, it all makes sense.

Rating: You can’t get too much of a good thing. 3.5/5

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