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2x11 The Night of the Meek 2x12 Dust

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This week in the Twilight Zone we get some yuletide cheer and then we head to the gallows and consider magic😯

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Dan Lapointe

These are the best Twilight Zone reactions I’ve ever watched. Thanks for watching this great show Jen! 😊

Darryl Low

2 more Zones from Jen before bedtime. Snooze is on hold haha. I watch Night of the Meek every December 😊 Dust is a cool episode. A touch of mystery and a touch of magic. Excited for Back There next week. One of my favourites, with a really great score 😊

ak416

The way you exclaimed "Percival Smithers!" absolutely killed me lol

Muggy

Dust is political commentary about ending capital punishment, a big topic at the time. "The "magic dust" in the episode serves as a perfect metaphor for the growing mid-century liberal humanist movement that was actively challenging the American justice system at the time. Rod Serling wrote the episode to broadcast a message about shifting societal values: • The Pity and the Magic: Serling's closing narration explicitly makes this connection, stating that the magic wasn't in the dirt, but rather in the "pity" and "human compassion" that already lived within the townspeople. • Bypassing Censorship: By using a fantastical Western setting, Serling bypassed network censors to preach the core tenants of 1960s progressivism—moving away from a dark history of reactionary vengeance, mob rule, and public executions, and toward institutional mercy and rehabilitation. • The Reality Mirror: The episode aired in January 1961. Within just six years of its broadcast, this exact cultural shift in "human compassion" culminated in the legal campaigns that successfully halted all U.S. executions starting in 1967

Chris Biebel

BTW, I don't know if you recognized Mr. Dundee (the store manager). He was one of the jurors in 12 Angry Men (he was also the voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh). He was a great character actor who often had these kinds of roles in his career, although if you look at his IMDB, almost everything (probably about 95% or so of the listings) since 1990 until he died in 2005 were him voicing Piglet. Then again, he was in his late 60s to 70s at the time, so voice acting was probably easier for him at that point.

Patrick Turman

Are you back? Hope you're feeling better! Can't wait to watch this with you!

Ian

Always look forward to venting into the 5th dimension with Jen and rod 🔥💫

Geoff S.

Art Carney from he Honeymooners is Santa. He was a huge tv star at this point. Yes, this is one of the video tape episode shot at CBS TV City in order to save money but they decided the look sucked and went back to film. This looks like an episode of Dark Shadows.

zynjams

my all time favorite Twilight Zone episode Night of the Meek

TigerMyth

You have a BIG crush on Sterling. I give the nod to the Christmas episode. Art Carney (Santa) became a very successful actor. Actually he had already done the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason. Both good episodes. Just like Trek, I am so glad you are watching these. There are plenty of episodes I've never seen before so this is fun.

Ron

John Fiedler was also in Star Trek TOS! * S2E14: Wolf in the Folder: Mr. Hengist (aka, Redjac/Red Jack, Beratis, Kesla, or, more commonly on Earth, Jack the Ripper!). I guess Jack-the-Ripper's host was a department store manager before he fled off-world.