The notion of this episode is a good one, once again utilising those magical effects of the Zone to create a situation where a person who pines for another era can access it via a medium, which in this case takes to form of an old radio.
The protagonist of the episode doesn’t appear to be a particularly social man. He comes across gruff and disinterested, which is somewhat surprising given the way the episode progresses and it becomes obvious what he wants. To me it feels like Ed Lindsay is played a little too off hand, especially when his back story comes to full view.
The idea of the radio that is picking up transmissions from the past, and from a radio station that has closed down years before works fine in the same way that this idea is used in different ways through the entire series. What I don’t cotton onto as much is the abruptness of the ending and the conclusion of the tale. It appears to come so quick that the build-up hadn’t really gotten to that point yet, but the episode had run out of time and/or steam and it needed to be resolved. It’s interesting enough, but maybe not perfectly well finished off.
Rating: All we hear is radio ga-ga. 3.5/5
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