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This will be unpopular ... as a long-time horror fan, I found Serling's episodes to tend toward the heavy-handed, the obvious, often schmaltzy. I favored the B
by at_a_remove 4y ago
This will be unpopular ... as a long-time horror fan, I found Serling's episodes to tend toward the heavy-handed, the obvious, often schmaltzy. I favored the Beaumont and Matheson far more, even decades later.
- ghaff 4y agoI'd have to look up who wrote what episodes although it looks like Beaumont wrote some classic ones. The Twilight Zone was always something of a mixed bag but, because it was episodic, from the distance of time we can easily pick and choose and skim the cream.