{"id":10245,"date":"2020-04-07T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:41:35","slug":"living-in-a-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=10245","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<h4><strong>Montreal Gazette, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">7 Apr 2020, <\/time>MICHAEL CAVNA<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i.prcdn.co\/img?regionKey=gI3m3TRICE31eTvRf2fAvA%3d%3d\" width=\"117\" height=\"116\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption><strong data-bind=\"text: imageTitle\">Rod Serling<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThe barrier of loneliness: the palpable, desperate need of the human animal to be with his fellow man. Up there &#8230; is an enemy known as isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">So goes creator and host Rod Serling\u2019s closing narration from the debut 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, aptly titled Where Is Everybody?, in which a man loses his grip when there is no human companionship to be found anywhere.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Six decades later, The Twilight Zone\u2019s themes on the human condition ring eternal.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">TIME ENOUGH AT LAST<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">One person\u2019s mass-casualty event is another person\u2019s opportunity to finally get a little reading done. Burgess Meredith plays the clerk who hides in his bank\u2019s vault to read, thus surviving a nuclear attack. He is left gloriously alone \u2014 just himself and stacks of books to happily devour. The twist, of course, is to watch his step \u2014 isolation isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Do humans help or harm each other in times of crisis? Serling\u2019s Maple Street is first presented as a benign slice of modern society, but suspicion of an alien among these neighbours sparks fearful finger-pointing and conflicts escalate. When panic sets in, the monsters, of course, can be ourselves. \u201cThere are weapons,\u201d Serling says in voice-over, \u201cthat are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">THE LONELY<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">How close do we grow to our devices in times of isolation? Imagine, if you will, a convict played by Jack Warden serving his solitary confinement truly alone on an asteroid. Once his penalty appears to be a life sentence, the prisoner is given a \u201cfemale\u201d robot that he develops feelings for. An intervention is required to remind him that he has come to love a companion made of nuts and bolts. Sometimes, it seems, the illusory warmth of our machines must be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">THE MIND AND THE MATTER<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Jean-paul Sartre said \u201chell is other people,\u201d and the office worker (Shelley Berman) in this episode would agree. He can\u2019t stand all the crowding, whether it\u2019s along the subway commute or in the lunchtime cafeteria. Yet when he lives his dream to eliminate all people, the loneliness makes for an awfully empty life.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">THE SHELTER<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">What will cause even the best of friends and spouses to turn on each other? In this story, dear old pals gather for a party, but a UFO sighting and talk of a possible nuclear attack drive a wedge between the cosy neighbours. A doctor, for so long a healer, must weigh the prospect of loved ones perishing outside his bomb shelter. What is harder when self-preservation is at stake: a reinforced shelter door or the human heart?<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">THE WHOLE TRUTH<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">As global leaders play politics, what becomes of a man who must tell the truth? In this episode, a used-car salesman (Jack Carson) loses his ability to traffic in lies. But, like a clever politician, the salesman can still bend the facts to his favour in this Cold War tale.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">WHERE IS EVERYBODY?<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">What if everywhere you turned \u2014 to movies, to the kitchen, to the streets outside \u2014 you could not find another person? 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Up there &#8230; is an enemy known as isolation.\u201d So goes creator and host Rod Serling\u2019s closing narration from the debut 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, aptly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=10245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living in a Twilight Zone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[199],"tags":[1389,1388,1236],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-corona-virus","tag-serling","tag-twilight-zone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}