So, why the success? Because on some level almost every episode speaks to who we are, and always have been*. Now while that visual shorthand was iconic, the introduction of color didn’t stop any of its three reboots (four if you count Serling’s Night Gallery) or limit the success of subsequent color diverse anthology series like The Outer Limits (premiered in black and white, then had a color reboot), and more recently, Black Mirror, which was put on hiatus after the real world started outperforming anything the writers could come up with, but filmed an episode in black and white before it did. And yet… that mundane reality only serves to enhance the differences between the world we think we live in, and what’s lurking just under the surface. The Twilight Zone is one of those rare series that is really timeless – which is completely counterintuitive because it immediately brings to mind black and white video of vanilla late 50’s Americana, where men never used slang and wore suits all the time. – The Twilight Zone, Season One Introduction “It lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge.”
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